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Luke Messac is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is enrolled in a dual-degree MD/PhD program. His graduate research focuses on the history of social medicine in the United...

Steve Matzker is a photographer living in southern Illinois. With a focus on community based journalism, Steve believes local stories are as important, and often just as exotic, as those found in...

Kerstin is currently pursuing her Master of Public Health at Boston University. She came to Boston from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she studied anthropology with a focus on African...

Rebecca Gibian holds an MS in journalism from the University of Southern California, where she was a Dean's Scholar, the senior news editor for Neon Tommy and a producer for Annenberg Radio News. She...

Nick Swyter is a junior majoring in broadcast journalism and international studies at the University of Miami. He served as an intern at Indonesia's MetroTV News and has reported for the King's...

Henry is a writer and multimedia journalist currently studying communication with a concentration in journalism at High Point University. He also studies global commerce and has studied international...

Diksha is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania where she is studying English and business. She grew up in Dubai and India and has been concerned about social and environmental responsibility...

Jonathan Cox is a rising senior majoring in political science at Davidson College. Although born in Columbia, South Carolina, he grew up in Bucharest, Romania, where his parents work as missionaries...

Shirley is a rising senior at Loyola University Chicago focusing on international relations, journalism and Latin American studies. She studied journalism last spring in Chile and is excited to have...

Jeffrey E. Stern is a writer and development worker whose reporting from Afghanistan, Kashmir, and elsewhere has been published by The Atlantic. The New Republic, Slate, Foreign Policy, Esquire, Time...

Roger Thurow was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 30 years, 20 of them as a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa. His coverage of global affairs spanned the Cold War and the fall...

Carlos Javier Ortiz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Chicago. He has been awarded many accolades including the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Photography award...