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Emily Baumgaertner is a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times focused on medical investigations and features. She joined the paper in 2019 from the New York Times Washington bureau...

Michelle Ferng, a 2014 Pulitzer Center Global Health Reporting Fellow, is a Taiwanese-Canadian photojournalist and public health practitioner. She has covered and worked on issues in global health...

Tim McGirk is a former bureau chief and war correspondent for Time magazine, who has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the hunt for al-Qaeda. He also...

Britton Nagy, a senior at High Point University, has spent much of her college career traveling, pursuing, and discovering in every way possible. Her love for travel and culture has led her to study...

Richard Bernstein, a former reporter, culture critic, and foreign correspondent at TIME Magazine and The New York Times, has been a journalist and writer for 40 years. His work has appeared in...

Adiba Khan is a Bangladeshi-Swedish-American scientist and storyteller. She is a senior at the University of Washington, studying biochemistry and journalism. Adiba spent the last two years in a...

Paul Nevin is currently pursuing his Master of Public Health in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. He graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University where he studied...

Katie Mathieson is a senior at Davidson College majoring in Environmental Studies. She is particularly interested in environmental and social justice issues surrounding development and globalization...

Rodney White has been a staff photographer at the Des Moines Register since 2000. He has photographed the Super Bowl, 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the Iowa National Guard deployment to...

Lynn Hicks is the executive business editor of the Des Moines Register. He oversees the newspaper's award-winning business and agricultural coverage and writes the weekly "Biz Buzz" column. He started...

Paul Short is a senior architecture student in the department of art, architecture, and art history at the University of San Diego. A member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars as well as a...

Reana Thomas graduated from Loyola University Chicago in May 2014 with a degree in biology with a minor in anthropology. While at Loyola, she did research on international invasive species and the...