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Cory Lum is a staff photojournalist at Honolulu Civil Beat. Before joining Civil Beat, Cory was in Japan doing work with European Press Photos. He was witness to the devastation of Japan's 2011...

Anita Hofschneider is a reporter at Honolulu Civil Beat, a nonprofit news organization in Hawaii. She writes about a variety of issues, including housing and the environment. Her work has won numerous...

Kiah Collier reports on energy and the environment for The Texas Tribune, where she began working in July 2015. Since graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 with degrees in...

Julián Aguilar is a native of El Paso who earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas and a master's degree in journalism from the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of...

Lila Franco is a senior at Wake Forest University, who is majoring in communication with a minor in psychology. As a native of Venezuela, she has always been concerned with human rights, given the...

Umar Farooq is a Special Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Currently based in Istanbul, he was previously based in Islamabad. He has covered South Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the...