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Claudia Peralta Torres is a Peruvian American storyteller and video editor based in the northern Virginia area. A former editorial fellow at the nonprofit news site Hola Cultura, she is one of the...

Michael O. Snyder is a photographer and filmmaker documenting the climate crisis and related social-environmental issues. In addition to creating visual stories, he is deeply interested in how our...

Mechelle Hankerson is a Virginia Beach native and went to Virginia Commonwealth University, where she was an award-winning college journalist. After college, Hankerson was at Raleigh, North Carolina's...

Emma Davis, a graduate of the University of Richmond, centered her reporting for the Pulitzer Center on refugee assimilation in Copenhagen, Denmark. Davis is the Don and Doris Shaffer Researcher at...

Kelsey Garrett is a senior at the College of William & Mary, majoring in government and communications, focusing on race relations. After graduation, Garrett will attend the School for International...

Lauryn Moss is a senior undergraduate student at Hampton University in Virginia, pursuing a journalism degree. Her passion for writing and broadcast began in high school. During summer 2019, Moss...

Emma Ward is a senior at William & Mary, majoring in film and media studies with a minor in history. On campus, she is president of the Christopher Wren Singers, the college's classical a cappella...

Emily Topness is a junior at William & Mary, studying geology and anthropology. She is an intern at an environmental consulting company, a tour guide teaching visitors about William & Mary’s historic...

Dana Armstrong is a senior studying journalism and dance at William & Mary. She is the editor-in-chief of the DoG Street Journal, a student lifestyle and culture magazine, and has also written for the...

Adithi Ramakrishnan is a member of William & Mary's class of 2022 pursuing a neuroscience major and creative writing minor. On campus, she writes for the college newspaper The Flat Hat, dances on a...

Nina Jankowicz studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe and the US as the Disinformation Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She...

By the time I was in my mid-teens my family had achieved middle class status and I was able to go to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. I started out majoring in chemistry but after a couple of years...