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Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange, a marketing and strategy advisory boutique with a focus on innovation and emerging markets. Headquartered in Minneapolis, with partners around the globe...

Sarah Wildman writes on the intersection of culture and politics, history and memory in Europe and America. Over the last decade, she has lived in and reported from Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Washington...

Photojournalist Mary Chind has been with the Des Moines Register since 1999. Chind previously worked for two Arizona newspapers, The Sierra Vista Herald and The Tucson Citizen. While reporting on...

Tony Leys, 47, has been an editor and reporter for the Des Moines Register since 1988. He has primarily covered health care since 2000, while also dabbling in politics and other subjects. His projects...

Kenneth R. Weiss writes about science, environment and public health. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his work as the lead writer on a five-part series Altered Oceans published...

Jeffrey Bartholet is a veteran journalist based in Washington, D.C. He has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and other publications. From 1989 to 2011...

Esha is a journalist who covers sustainability, development, women's issues, and mission-driven brands. She contributes to a number of international and national publications such as The Guardian, The...

Jennifer Miller's debut novel "The Year of the Gadfly" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was chosen as a 2012 Best Book by Kirkus Reviews and Self magazine. Her first book, "Inheriting the Holy Land"...

Kassondra Cloos is a senior journalism major at Elon University from Pawtucket, R.I. She has previously worked for News21's "Who Can Vote?" project, in Phoenix, Ariz. She also interned for Al Jazeera...

Dan McCarey is an information designer based in Washington, DC.

Steve Ringman has been a photographer for The Seattle Times for over 25 years. His passion is for stories involving environmental issues including climate change, fisheries and forestry that have...

Craig Welch is an environment writer at National Geographic. Prior to joining National Geographic, he was the environmental reporter for The Seattle Times, where he worked for more than 14 years. A...