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Kiah Collier reports on energy and the environment for The Texas Tribune, where she began working in July 2015. Since graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 with degrees in...

Julián Aguilar is a native of El Paso who earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas and a master's degree in journalism from the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of...

Lila Franco is a senior at Wake Forest University, who is majoring in communication with a minor in psychology. As a native of Venezuela, she has always been concerned with human rights, given the...

Umar Farooq is a Special Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Currently based in Istanbul, he was previously based in Islamabad. He has covered South Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the...

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author most recently of The New York Times bestseller "Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on...

Emily Codik is an editor in the Features department at The Washington Post. Prior to joining The Post, she worked as the arts editor for Washingtonian magazine and a restaurant critic and editor for...

Jackie Spinner is an editor at the Gateway Journalism Review, a professor at Columbia College Chicago, and the faculty adviser to The Columbia Chronicle, the school's student-run news publication...