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Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque is a stateless Rohingya refugee from Myanmar. He is in his third year, majoring in social work and journalism at Buffalo State University of New York. As a refugee, he made...

Jaylin Ward, from the Bronx, New York, is an interdisciplinary journalism major in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University. Ward’s undergraduate research focuses on the impact...

Brett Simpson is an audio and print journalist covering the intersections of health, the environment, and human rights. She is a 2021 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School...

Susan Hammond is the executive director and founder of the War Legacies Project. The daughter of a U.S. Vietnam veteran, Hammond became interested in post-war Southeast Asia after traveling to Vietnam...

Katherine Jossi is currently an Editorial and Communications Coordinator at the Pulitzer Center. She was previously an Outreach and Communications Intern at the Pulitzer Center from 2021-2022. She...

Nicole York is the Pulitzer Center's director of human resources. She is an HR professional with over 20 years of progressive experience in human resources management solutions for both profit and...

Mouhamad Alem is the Pulitzer Center's chief financial and operating officer. He brings a rich and diverse set of experiences working across operations, finance, and management in both the nonprofit...

Emma Davis, a graduate of the University of Richmond, centered her reporting for the Pulitzer Center on refugee assimilation in Copenhagen, Denmark. Davis is the Don and Doris Shaffer Researcher at...

Born in New Orleans, raised in Houston, and now living in Manhattan, Irene Vázquez is a queer Black Mexican American poet, translator, and journalist who writes at the intersection of Black cultural...

Josh Voorhees is an environmental journalist and MPH student focused on food systems and climate change at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Currently, he's a correspondent for...

Zainab Ahmed is a recent graduate from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago where she studied new arts journalism. Her work focuses on art developed under conflict zones. Her Pulitzer Center...

A New Yorker with an unconventional background, Valerie Pires has always been interested in underreported stories and how she could best tell them. Following a nontraditional path, Pires worked in...