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Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker...

Cynthia Barnett is the director of Climate and Environment Reporting Projects at the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications. She is an award-winning author and journalist who...

Madeline Powell is a production assistant at PBS NewsHour.

Eliot Barnhart is a production assistant at PBS NewsHour. He attended the College of William & Mary.

Natalia Perez-Gonzalez is an award-winning journalist, a Newhouse Foundation Scholar, and a recent magazine journalism graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. A...

Safi El-Gamal is a current student at Davidson College, focusing her research on Islam and its increasing interactions with modern consciousness within the Muslim World. She has worked for various...

Paige Skinner is a journalist based in Texas.

Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist at BuzzFeed News and author of Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City, which was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/ESPN...

James Sprankle is an independent photographer in New York City. He has covered conflict and crisis in east Ukraine, South Sudan, and Greece. Since starting work as a photojournalist in 2014, he has...

Gordon Rago covers growth and development for The Charlotte Observer. He previously was a reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. Rago began his journalism career in 2013 at the Shoshone News...

Payton Guion is an award-winning investigative reporter for The Charlotte Observer. Prior to returning to his hometown paper, Guion reported for The Star-Ledger and the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey...

Myra Burns was formerly incarcerated for aiding and abetting first-degree murder, “delivery to death,” in 1983 at the age of 21 years old. Myra was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for 187 PC...