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Atul Dev is a journalist based in New York. His stories and essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and The Caravan, where he was a staff writer for over six years. He...

Ashley Lopez is a political correspondent for NPR in Austin, Texas. She joined NPR in May 2022. Prior to that, Lopez spent more than six years as a health care and politics reporter for KUT, Austin's...

Aaron Mendelson covers voting, elections, and democracy at the Center for Public Integrity. He joined the newsroom in 2022 and has covered stories ranging from restrictive voting laws to prison...

Karima A. Haynes formerly served as the Pulitzer Center's Director of Reporting Fellows Program. She is a 2019 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She is...

Molly Taft is a freelance journalist. They recently served as a contributing editor at The New Republic, and were a staff writer reporting on climate, tech, and Big Oil at Gizmodo's Earther blog. Taft...

Alyson Reynolds is a senior at William & Mary, studying international relations and Latin American studies. As a James Monroe Scholar and Honors Fellow, she has researched migration, human rights, and...

Beth LaBerge, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a visual journalist and documentary photographer. After studying cultural anthropology at San Francisco State University, LaBerge enrolled in a...

Lakshmi Sarah is a journalist and educator who focuses on experimental storytelling. She has worked with newspapers, radio, and magazines, from Ahmedabad, India, to Los Angeles. Her work has been...

Robin Wright, a contributing writer and columnist, has written for The New Yorker since 1988. Her first piece on Iran won the National Magazine Award for best reporting. A former correspondent for The...

Naghmeh Farzaneh is an Iranian filmmaker, art director, and animator based in Chicago. Her independent films have received international recognition and awards at several festivals. Her animated short...

Andy Sarjahani is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer who was raised outside the Arkansas Ozarks. His work focuses on human ecology, climate change adaptation, threats to...

Stella Mackler is co-editor-in-chief of The Davidsonian, the student-run newspaper for Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Originally from Atlanta, Mackler came into the role her freshman...