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Jasmine Mans is a Black poet and performance artist from Newark, New Jersey. Jasmine’s poetry book, BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME (Penguin Random House) has been named one of Oprah’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ...

Michael Coren is the climate and technology editor for Quartz in San Francisco. He started his journalism career covering science and the environment at The Palm Beach Post and San Jose Mercury News...

Jordan Rusche is a 2022 Reporting Fellow from De Smet, South Dakota. She attends South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota, as a senior where she studies journalism and English with a...

Emily Cooper is the 2022 Reporting Fellow for Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Cooper is a first-generation graduate student at SIUC studying strategic communications. In May of 2021, she...

Nathalie Castellanos was formerly an intern for the Campus and Outreach team at the Pulitzer Center. Castellanos studied international relations at American University. Before joining the Pulitzer...

Mariel Lozada is associate editor of GIJN en Español and a Venezuelan freelance journalist based in New York City. She has a master’s degree in engagement journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate...

Savanna Strott is a contributing writer for Public Health Watch and is based in Las Vegas. A graduate of American University, Strott previously interned at AU’s Investigative Reporting Workshop and...

David Leffler, a contributing writer for Public Health Watch, is an Austin-based journalist who writes long-form features and about politics. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Texas...

Casey Beck is on the faculty at California State University, East Bay, where she teaches documentary production. Her debut short film, Mongolia: Land Without Fences, premiered online on FRONTLINE...

Mikaela Schmitt was a Program Manager for the United States Outreach team at the Pulitzer Center. She previously served as Program Coordinator for the Campus Consortium team. She studied Arts...

Ethan Widlansky was an editorial intern at the Pulitzer Center. A writer, Widlansky has worked with the Los Angeles Review of Books, the King County Bar Association, and the California Democrats. He...

Grace Jensen was the Digital Production Coordinator for the Pulitzer Center, having started as an Editorial Intern. She worked on the Publishing team editing and publishing content and the...