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Mike Smith is a reporter at The Montana Standard, covering politics and government. Smith graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma. He joined The Associated Press in Oklahoma...

Sue Morrow is a visual journalist, designer, and editor with over 30 years of experience in management and leadership, teaching, and mentorship at several of the leading newspapers in the United...

Anna V. Smith is an associate editor on High Country News' Indigenous affairs desk. In 2022 she completed the Ted Scripps Fellowship at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of...

November 20, 2024

Paige Vega is Vox’s climate editor. She steers the team’s coverage of the climate crisis, the environment, solutions and adaptations, and the energy transition. She writes at the intersection of...

November 19, 2024

Elyse Wild is a senior editor for Native News Online. She covers the overdose epidemic in Native American communities and missing and murdered Indigenous people through a solutions-focused lens. Her...

November 11, 2024

Sebastian Fraccari is a student at the City University of New York's Hunter College. He is based in Brooklyn. He is a Roosevelt Scholar for public policy and he interned with Manhattan Community Board...

Joshua Montes is a journalism and political science student at Hunter College. He’s worked on his high school newspaper and aspires to be a broadcast journalist. His motivation is sharing stories that...

Barrak Alahmad is a research fellow in the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk (EER) Program at the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He holds a medical...

Paula Dobbyn reports on Maui, Hawaiʻi Island, and the environment for Honolulu Civil Beat. Previous to Civil Beat, Dobbyn was a longtime Alaska journalist. She began her journalism career in Nicaragua...

November 1, 2024

Douglas Parker is assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Cathy Feingold is deputy president of the International Trade Union Confederation and director of the international department at AFL-CIO.

Benjamin Kirtman is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. In addition, he is the William R. Middelthon III...