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Lottie Joiner is an award-winning multiplatform journalist. The Washington, D.C.-based writer and editor covers race, social justice, civil rights and culture. Her work focuses on issues that impact...

Erica Ayisi is an international freelance journalist focusing on human feature stories around the world. Her work appears in NBCNEWS.com, Mongabay, Rhode Island PBS Weekly, The Root, ESSENCE, Lonely...

Monique Jaques is an American photojournalist based between the US and the Middle East. Her work focuses on the representation of women through documentary photography and video. Her award-winning...

Kalpana Jain is a long-time investigative journalist who worked at The Times of India for many years. She reported on India's ailing public health system and many other social justice issues. Her...

Richard Stradling is a staff writer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. He's been a reporter and editor for 32 years, starting at The Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard in 1987. He...

Elizabeth Barber is a New York-based journalist on the editorial staff of The New Yorker. Her writing on religion and culture has appeared in the magazine and NewYorker.com, and she has previously...

Maria Perez has covered issues affecting immigrant and minority communities since 2013. Before joining the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, she covered minority affairs for the Naples Daily News. She won a...

Asha Stuart is a photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on sociocultural themes. Her passion for storytelling has taken her across the world—documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis in...

Michael Frierson is a Professor in the Department of Media Studies at UNC Greensboro. He teaches shooting and editing and he has produced short films for Children's Television Workshop, Nickelodeon...

Ayanna Eva Dickinson was born and raised in Washington Heights, New York, and attended Frank McCourt High School on the Upper West Side, where she discovered her natural ability and love for writing...

Audrey Fromson is a University of Chicago student studying Creative Writing with a nonfiction focus and Spanish. She was previously a Communications Intern at WhyHunger, a food justice nonprofit based...