United States

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 is the Digital Production Coordinator for the Pulitzer Center, having previously worked as an Editorial Intern. Jensen is from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Smith College with a...

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...