North America

Laya Maheshwari is an Indian journalist. He keenly follows debates in culture, censorship, propaganda, and international development. His writing has appeared in publications like The Los Angeles...

Diana Markosian is an Armenian-American photographer whose images explore the relationship between memory and place. She received her master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of...

Peg Tyre has written two books on education, one of which, "The Trouble With Boys," was a New York Times best-seller and the other, "The Good School," is being used in journalism schools around the...

Ben C. Solomon is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and journalist. He is the inaugural Filmmaker-in-residence at Frontline on PBS. Ben spent 9 years as one of the New York Times' first foreign...

Scott Anderson is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He is the author, most recently, of Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East...

Michael Henninger is a staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He was named the 2011 National Press Photographers Association region 3 Photographer of the Year. His work has been...

Daniel Moore is a reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette where he covers energy and labor issues for the business desk. Working in an area of the country long known for its powerful steel, coal and...

Mark Olalde is an environmental reporter who has covered mining and energy policy in the U.S., southern Africa and the Caribbean. He laid the groundwork for his ongoing investigations into South...

Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author of The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization. The book has been translated into five languages, was a finalist...

Kira Zalan is an American freelance journalist living in East Africa. Her narrative stories strive to shed light on how policies and political decisions impact individuals on the human level. Before...

Isabel Izek is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis studying biomedical engineering. Isabel is the granddaughter of Polish Holocaust survivors and Mexican immigrants to the United States who...