North America

Ted Alcorn is an independent journalist who reports on health and justice for numerous publications including The New York Times. An adjunct at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health...

Isabelle Tavares covers environmental and public health impacts in Latino communities for Planet Detroit with Report for America. Working in film, text, and audio, she is a Dominican-American...

September 17, 2025

Andy Steiner has been a mental health and addiction columnist for MinnPost, a nonprofit news outlet in Minnesota, for at least 10 years. An award-winning freelance writer, she has also worked as...

September 17, 2025

Jeff Oloizia is an award-winning writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. His reporting has explored the human impact of school shooting drills, cutting-edge Alzheimer’s treatments, and the growing...

September 17, 2025

Michael Hawthorne is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and investigative reporter who focuses on the environment and public health for the Chicago Tribune. He has written extensively about the Great Lakes and...

September 17, 2025

Kelly Garcia reports on youths, prisons, and the court system. Before joining Injustice Watch in 2022, Garcia was a staff writer at the Chicago Reader, where she wrote about news and politics. In 2022...

September 17, 2025

Ben Felder is editor-in-chief at Investigate Midwest, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates corporate agriculture and other powerful players in the nation’s food system. Felder is based in Oklahoma...

September 17, 2025

Max Blaisdell is an investigative journalist based in Chicago. He is a staff writer at the Hyde Park Herald and helps lead the Investigative hub at South Side Weekly. Blaisdell is also a fellow with...

September 17, 2025

Leah Mallory is a multimedia journalist at WROC-TV, Channel 8 News, in Rochester, New York. Mallory's experience spans television, radio, and digital reporting. She has worked at ABC7 and FOX News in...

JoeBill Muñoz is a documentary filmmaker, director, and producer of The Strike, a feature documentary about the California prisoner-led protests against solitary confinement. Muñoz was named to DOC...

Hilary Matfess, an assistant professor at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School, is a political scientist specializing in security, gender, and governance in sub-Saharan Africa. She is the...