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A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Julia Boccagno recently graduated magna cum laude from American University with a degree in broadcast journalism in May 2015. She also pursued a double minor in...

Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist. They are a contributing opinion writer to the New York Times and a frequent contributor to New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The...

Guillermo Martin-Saiz is Ph.D student in Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He does ethnographic fieldwork in Barcelona and his research focuses on the organization in...

As the deputy senior producer for foreign affairs and defense at the PBS NewsHour, Dan plays a key role in helping oversee and produce the program's foreign affairs and defense stories. His pieces...

Jamie McIntyre is Al Jazeera America's National Security Correspondent. He's on special assignment for the PBS NewsHour. McIntyre was an NPR All Things Considered Newscaster from 2011 to 2014. He was...

Ann Schraufnagel is an internal medicine physician and chief resident at the VA Puget Sound Hospital in Seattle, Washington. She reported on open defecation in India as a 2015 Pulitzer Center Global...

Pankaj Khadka, a Nepali native, is a graduate photojournalism student at Boston University. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in print journalism and a B.A. in photography from McNeese State...

Rodrigue Anathasse Ossebi is a student at LaGuardia Community College, studying liberal arts and electrical engineering. He immigrated to the United States from the Republic of Congo in June 2010 and...

Gaiutra Bahadur is an award-winning journalist who writes frequently about migration, literature and gender. Her essays, book reviews and reportage have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The...

Pierre Kattar is an Emmy Award-winning video journalist and documentary filmmaker. He developed his observational style of filmmaking during his 10 years at The Washington Post's website where he...

Jae is the first medical student to be accepted at McDonnell Scholars Academy at Washington University School of Medicine. He has lived in 11 places on three continents, and this exposure has...

Steve Elfers has been a visual storyteller for 27 years and has covered military conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and Somalia. Steve is the managing editor of multimedia for USA Today...