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Xiaoli Zhou is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and instructor at University of Chicago Laboratory Schools with a strong journalism background. As a native Chinese and a graduate of UC Berkeley...

Dr. Amina Asim is an award-winning media analyst, data scientist, writer and producer. She is an expert in the field of transnational media strategy and digital storytelling. She has a Ph.D. from...

Andrew W. Lehren is a senior editor on the NBC News investigations team. He has reported on the pandemic and economic relief efforts, and led work on five International Consortium of Investigative...

March 5, 2021

Called a "gifted storyteller and deep thinker" by The New York Times, Steven Johnson is a leading authority on innovation, whose books, podcasts, and television series have explored the stories of...

Linda Villarosa is a journalist, author, editor, novelist and educator. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where she covers race, inequality and health. Most recently she...

Ranju Dodum is a journalist based in Arunachal Pradesh in India's northeast, a region often neglected by mainstream Indian and global media.

Marni Lennon is the assistant dean for public interest and pro bono and a lecturer of law. She is the founder and director of the HOPE Public Interest Resource Center, and has worked and taught at the...

Ariana Aboulafia is an attorney who graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law with a concentration in social justice and public interest in 2020. She has a bachelor’s in...

Santiago Wills is a writer from Bogotá, Colombia. He studied philosophy at the National University in Bogotá, and later earned a master's in journalism at Columbia University in New York and a master...

Bradford Ellison is a student at Howard University School of Law. Prior to law school, he attended Duke University, where he studied cultural anthropology and public policy, and worked on workforce...

Anastasia Pierik is a second-year law student at the University of Miami. In 2019, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a degree in society and environment...