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Ryan Michalesko is a visual journalist currently based out of Southern Illinois. This Carbondale, Illinois native derived his passion for visual storytelling from a young age and decided to further...

Janelle Richards is a producer at Nightly News with Lester Holt. She has covered the Pulse Orlando shooting, Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore, the Charleston church shooting and the Amtrak train...

Josephine Holtzman is a Brooklyn-based multimedia producer. Her production work includes everything from NPR Jazz documentaries to a podcast about fried chicken in Pakistan, to interactive climate...

Allison Herrera is a Native American radio journalist whose work was recently featured on PRI's The World. Herrera's Native ties are from her Xolon Salinan tribal heritage; her family's traditional...

Isaac Kestenbaum is the co-creator of Frontier of Change, a multimedia project about the changing climate and culture in Alaska, part of AIR's Localore: Finding America initiative. He is the former...

Louie Lazar is a journalist living in New York. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Grantland, and Tablet. His stories are about people, often forgotten or overlooked, who have...

Luis Trelles is the Caribbean correspondent for Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language podcast that is distributed by NPR. Radio Ambulante tells the stories of Latin America and about Latino communities...

Mario J. Pentón is the international correspondent for 14ymedio, Cuba's first independent digital news outlet. His work is also featured in the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald. Mario's reporting has...

Melissa Noel is an award-winning freelance multimedia journalist in New York City. She is a contributing correspondent for One Caribbean Television, covering major news stories out of the Caribbean...

Molly Ball was a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she was a leading voice in the magazine's coverage of U.S. politics, and a CNN political analyst. Ball has been awarded the Toner Prize for...

Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China," which won the 2014...

Sean Lyngaas is a freelance journalist who has covered everything from presidential elections in Ghana to political dissent in Bahrain for The New York Times and The Economist and other publications...