North America

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...

Omer Khan is a photographer from Kabul, Afghanistan, now based in San Diego, California. Khan studied and graduated from journalism school. With his photography, he aims to "communicate across...

Corina Guevara has a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala, her country of origin. She holds a master’s in fisheries and aquatic sciences from the University of...

Derêka K. Bennett is reporter at the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and an independent documentary filmmaker. She has a master's degree from UC Berkeley...

Kinga Rajzak is a Hungarian multimedia journalist and filmmaker based in New York and Budapest. She covers Central and Eastern European politics, elections, migration, media freedom, domestic violence...

Katie Delk is a May 2023 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications, with a minor in anthropology and expertise in agriculture and botany. She is an environmental...

Alan Halaly is a journalism senior at the University of Florida. He has covered the 2021 building collapse in Surfside, Florida, local news for Miami New Times, and breaking news for The Daily Beast...

August 5, 2022

Dylan Ortiz is a budding storyteller whose eye for detail and zeal for filmmaking drives him to achieve his goals. He recently graduated from Westchester Community College with an honors-designated...

Anne Checler is an award-winning documentary editor with more than 15 years of experience in long- and short-form documentaries and television and web series. She has covered a wide range of topics...

Lionel Donovan III is an international journalist with a 12-year career in broadcast news. He got his start in Beijing, China, as an anchor for Blue Ocean Network. He then moved to Jacksonville...

Fred Bahnson is the author of the book Soil and Sacrament (Simon & Schuster). His essays and journalism have appeared in Harper’s, Oxford American, Orion, Notre Dame Magazine, Emergence, Image, The...