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Peter Chilson teaches writing and literature at Washington State University. He is the author of the travelogue "Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa" and the story collection "Disturbance...

Sara is a Tunisian-born documentary filmmaker and editor based in San Francisco. She began her career working for several Frontline documentaries as well as the Academy-Award nominated Promises and...

Rob Peterson is a Piedmont, California based photographer and videographer. Since learning Arabic and living in Tunisia as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1994-96, the Middle East and Africa have forever...

Eliza Griswold received a 2011 Anthony J. Lukas prize for her New York Times bestselling book "The Tenth Parallel," an examination of Christianity and Islam in Africa and Asia. She also received a...

Jane Regan is a multimedia journalist and scholar who has worked in and on Haiti for almost three decades. A specialist in social movement media, Regan is currently teaching journalism in Haiti, as...

Ansel Herz is an independent multimedia journalist. A Seattle native and survivor of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he reported from that country for two years for Inter-Press Service and Free...

Micah Albert is a freelance documentary photographer represented by Redux Pictures photo agency. Based in northern California, he specializes in and is passionate about difficult-to-access regions and...

David Conrad is a freelance journalist and a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been published by Reuters, New York Daily News...

Keyla Beebe is a junior studying English and communications at Guilford College. While she was born in Washington State, her teens were spent studying in Curacao and Buenos Aires. She has traveled...

Joshua Yaffa is a journalist based in Moscow, where he is a contributor to The Economist, among other publications. He also has written on Russia and the former Soviet Union for The New York Times...

Joanne Silberner is a freelance multimedia reporter, and also an artist-in-residence at the University of Washington. She has a bachelor's degree in biology from Johns Hopkins University, a master's...

Austin Merrill is a writer and editor based in New York. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Republic, Wired, The New York Observer, Tin House, Good and other publications. Projects have...