North America

Jasmine Aguilera is a senior health equity reporter and editor at El Tímpano, a Bay Area nonprofit newsroom covering the region’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities. Prior, she covered Congress...

May 23, 2024

Ashley Lopez is a political correspondent for NPR in Austin, Texas. She joined NPR in May 2022. Prior to that, Lopez spent more than six years as a health care and politics reporter for KUT, Austin's...

Aaron Mendelson covers voting, elections, and democracy at the Center for Public Integrity. He joined the newsroom in 2022 and has covered stories ranging from restrictive voting laws to prison...

Beth LaBerge, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a visual journalist and documentary photographer. After studying cultural anthropology at San Francisco State University, LaBerge enrolled in a...

Lakshmi Sarah is a journalist and educator who focuses on experimental storytelling. She has worked with newspapers, radio, and magazines, from Ahmedabad, India, to Los Angeles. Her work has been...

Robin Wright, a contributing writer and columnist, has written for The New Yorker since 1988. Her first piece on Iran won the National Magazine Award for best reporting. A former correspondent for The...

Naghmeh Farzaneh is an Iranian filmmaker, art director, and animator based in Chicago. Her independent films have received international recognition and awards at several festivals. Her animated short...

Andy Sarjahani is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer who was raised outside the Arkansas Ozarks. His work focuses on human ecology, climate change adaptation, threats to...

Stella Mackler is co-editor-in-chief of The Davidsonian, the student-run newspaper for Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Originally from Atlanta, Mackler came into the role her freshman...

Cat Carroll is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where she studied journalism, international studies, and German. She is the 2025 recipient of the Wolff Fellowship, and a 2025 Health...

Ambassador Ian Kelly is Ambassador in Residence at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is a retired senior foreign service officer who last served as the United States Ambassador to...