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Laura Magaña is president and CEO of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health. Prior to joining ASPPH, Magaña was dean at Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Central New York native Jim Olech shoots, edits, and produces multiple high-profile programs and projects for WCNY. Olech obtained his master's from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and...

Chad Patterson is a producer at WCNY. Responsible for producing, shooting, and editing, Patterson has led several projects, including two seasons of Cycle of Health, Better Late Than Never Prom, and...

Ray Whitehouse is a filmmaker and journalist who has filmed, produced, and edited projects for The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Geographic, TIME, Univision, and Al Jazeera. He is...

Kate Woodsome is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker who weaves the connection between the health of our minds and the health of our body politic. While at The Washington...

Katrina De Vera is a documentary editor based in Austin, Texas. Her work includes assistant editing on the feature film A Thousand Cuts, which premiered at Sundance 2020, as well as assisting on the...

Dona J. Stewart is a fellow for the Future of Land and Housing program at the think tank New America. Previously, as a volunteer with DataKind, she helped lead the program’s research on housing loss...

Taylar Dawn Stagner is a radio reporter and graduate student working on her master's in American culture studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She is from Riverton, Wyoming, on the Wind...

Lauren Petracca is a photojournalist at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. Previously, she worked as a photojournalist at Gannett/USA TODAY NETWORK.

Ali Rogin is a foreign policy producer/reporter at PBS NewsHour. Previously, she worked as a digital journalist at ABC News.

Ivan Armando Flores is a staff photographer at The Texas Observer. He is assigned to the Indigenous Affairs desk and is responsible for coverage throughout Texas on a host of issues ranging from...

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Sara Ganim is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and documentary film director who started her career as a newspaper reporter, went on to report for CNN, and started her own production company. She...