United States

Becky Vevea is a political reporter for Chicago's WBEZ. She covers City Council, the mayor, and the many departments that determine how the city functions. Prior to covering politics, she covered...

Eléonore "Léo" Hamelin is a journalist and filmmaker based in New York who creates immersive and intimate documentaries. She currently creates short docs for Brut America, and was previously at Blue...

Katie Rose Quandt is a freelance journalist who writes about criminal justice, incarceration, and inequality. She is a staff writer and editor at Solitary Watch, and previously worked at Mother Jones...

Jean Casella is co-director of Solitary Watch, a web-based watchdog project that investigates and documents the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. Since its founding in 2009...

J. Weston Phippen is a reporter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He writes stories about the border, its people and environment, and the U.S.-Mexico relationship. In 2016 he was a finalist for the...

Julia Belluz is Vox's senior health correspondent, focused on medicine, science, and public health. She's covered topics as varied as the anti-vaccine movement, America's staggering maternal mortality...

Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago. Her reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice, and violence. Moore’s acclaimed book The South Side: A...

Justine van der Leun is an independent journalist and a fellow at Type Media Center. Her features have been published in The New York Review of Books, Harper's, the Guardian, GEN magazine, VQR...

Jordan Wolman is a senior journalism major at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Wolman serves as the editor-in-chief of The Brown and White, Lehigh's student newspaper. He has interned...

Ashonti Ford is a National Television News Correspondent for the Washington, DC Bureau. She joined Gray Television in August of 2023. Ford is a well-traveled watchdog journalist who has worked for...

Michael Shepherd is the politics and government editor at the Bangor Daily News, where he also covers state government and political campaigns. In 2012, he won the Bob Drake Young Writer's Award from...

Josh Keefe is a statewide investigative reporter for the Bangor Daily News in Maine. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Longform.org, and Newsweek/IBT, where he was a staff reporter...