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Ken Foskett is a senior editor for investigations at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he leads a team of investigative and data journalists who watchdog state and local government. Additionally...

J. Scott Trubey is an investigative reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Of late, Trubey has focused on the coronavirus pandemic and the state’s response to COVID-19. Trubey joined the AJC in...

John Perry is technical director of the Data Journalism Team at The Atlanta-Journal Constitution. He has more than 25 years of experience as a data journalist working at The Oklahoman newspaper in...

Jennifer Peebles is a newsroom data specialist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, helping reporters find and tell stories with government data (and sometimes documents, too). She is the former...

Emily Merwin DiRico is a news applications developer at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was a founding member of the AJC's data journalism team, where she works with reporters to help readers...

Nick Thieme has worked as a data scientist and statistician for New America, NASA, Comcast, the National Science Foundation, and a variety of universities. His writing has appeared in Slate magazine...

Xiaoli Zhou is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and instructor at University of Chicago Laboratory Schools with a strong journalism background. As a native Chinese and a graduate of UC Berkeley...

Dr. Amina Asim is an award-winning media analyst, data scientist, writer and producer. She is an expert in the field of transnational media strategy and digital storytelling. She has a Ph.D. from...

Andrew W. Lehren is a senior editor on the NBC News investigations team. He has reported on the pandemic and economic relief efforts, and led work on five International Consortium of Investigative...

March 5, 2021

Called a "gifted storyteller and deep thinker" by The New York Times, Steven Johnson is a leading authority on innovation, whose books, podcasts, and television series have explored the stories of...

Linda Villarosa is a journalist, author, editor, novelist and educator. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where she covers race, inequality and health. Most recently she...

Phineas Rueckert is an investigative reporter at Forbidden Stories. He previously led the education beat at Global Citizen and has covered criminal justice in Queens, New York.