North America

Carly Berlin is the Gulf Coast correspondent for Southerly Magazine. She began reporting on Hurricane Laura's aftermath the day after the storm hit, interviewing evacuees who had fled to New Orleans...

Syra Ortiz-Blanes is a Puerto Rican journalist with a background in print and audio. She covers the presidential election through a local Hispanic/Latino lens for El Nuevo Herald in Miami through...

Sarah Gelbard is a freelance journalist specializing in print, audio, science, and healthcare. She has contributed reporting to coverage of the 2020 elections with Columbia Journalism Investigations...

Ryan Delaney is a reporter for St. Louis Public Radio, covering both higher education and the many school districts in the St. Louis region. He regularly contributes to national programming, including...

Margaret Pearce is a cartographer and enrolled Citizen Band Potawatomi. She grew up on Seneca territory at Ga'shgöhsagöh (Rochester, NY) and now grateful to be a guest on Penobscot territory at...

Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH currently serves as the chief health equity officer and group vice president for the American Medical Association (AMA), where she focuses on embedding health equity across all...

Born and raised in Colombia, Cris Gallo is a motion designer based in Brooklyn, New York. For the past 12 years, he has been involved in the advertisement industry working for individual brands...

Ian Urbina is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalistic nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on the environment, labor, and human rights abuses occurring at sea.

Kirsti Karttunen is a freelance journalist living in New York. As a reporter she is currently most energized by issues related to social and criminal justice. Previously a foreign news reporter and an...

Sarah is a French-born and South African raised journalist writing mainly long-form and investigative articles. Her investigation on PFAS chemicals won an award at Columbia University Graduate School...