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David Barer is a senior investigative producer and digital reporter at KXAN in Austin, Texas. He received a bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University and a master’s in journalism from the...

Matt Grant is an investigative reporter at KXAN in Austin, Texas. His reporting helped change Texas law in 2023 to now require stricter oversight of doctors and greater transparency of discipline...

March 4, 2025

Ethan Holder is a student news contributor for WSIU Public Broadcasting at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

February 26, 2025

Lauren McCauley is the editor of the Maine Morning Star. She has covered politics and policy in Maine for more than 10 years and is the former editor of the Maine Beacon.

February 24, 2025

Jordan Campbell is the executive director of the Gateway Regional Arts Center in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. There, he has achieved a 522% increase in the budget and tripled participant engagement...

Michel Martin is a host of NPR's Morning Edition. Previously, she was the weekend host of All Things Considered and host of the Consider This Saturday podcast. Outside the studio, she has also hosted...

February 21, 2025

Jamie Wiggan began his journalism career at a local news startup in McKees Rocks, where he learned the trade covering local school boards and municipalities, and left four years later as editor-in...

M. Mitchell Waldrop is a freelance writer and editor. He earned a doctorate in elementary particle physics at the University of Wisconsin and a master's in journalism at Wisconsin. From 1977 to 1980...

February 12, 2025

Pauline Kim is a Daniel Noyes Kirby professor of law at Washington University's School of Law. Kim is the co-author of WorkLaw: Cases and Materials, one of the leading textbooks on employment law. Kim...

Jonathan Wolfson is chief legal officer and policy director at the Cicero Institute, which develops and advocates for state-level policies in health care, public safety, homelessness, education...

Jake Rosenfeld is a Weidenbaum Center resident fellow and the department chair of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Rosenfeld is the author of You're Paid What You're Worth and Other...