North America

Tegan Wendland is editorial director of the Mississippi River Basin AG and Water Desk. She has more than a decade of experience reporting on issues in the Mississippi River Basin, from the shores of...

Nina Jankowicz, a 2019 Pulitzer Center grantee, is the co-founder and CEO of The American Sunlight Project. She is an internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization, one of...

April Reese is a freelance science and environment journalist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work on the borderlands, water, wildlife, wildfire, public lands, climate change, energy and other...

Sarah Shourd is a trauma-informed investigative journalist, playwright, and 2019 Stanford JSK Knight fellow. For the last 12 years her work has focused on exposing the impact of mass incarceration and...

Jesse Hyde is a writer based in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is the In Depth editor for the Deseret News. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, Slate, Men's Journal and BuzzFeed.

Yuhong Pang is a journalist and documentary filmmaker from China. She received her Master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism documentary program in 2018. Her work has been published in...

Robert Tokanel is a journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work has been published on The New York Times Learning Network, Boston.com, and Mic. He has previously reported from Jordan, Turkey, and...

Rachel Lippmann covers courts, public safety and city politics for St. Louis Public Radio. (She jokingly refers to them as the "nothing ever happens beats.") She joined the NPR affiliate in her...

Kimberly Dozier is a CNN Global Affairs Analyst. At the time she received her grant, she was a contributor to The Daily Beast and TIME magazine. Dozier covered intelligence and national security for...

Zoë Carpenter is a reporter and editor at The Nation. She received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2018, and has been a finalist for the Livingston Awards and the National...

Amy Nye is a Master of Public Health candidate at The George Washington University Milken Institute in Washington, D.C. where she is focusing on program design, monitoring, and evaluation within...