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Ann Schraufnagel is an internal medicine physician and chief resident at the VA Puget Sound Hospital in Seattle, Washington. She reported on open defecation in India as a 2015 Pulitzer Center Global...

Pankaj Khadka, a Nepali native, is a graduate photojournalism student at Boston University. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in print journalism and a B.A. in photography from McNeese State...

Rodrigue Anathasse Ossebi is a student at LaGuardia Community College, studying liberal arts and electrical engineering. He immigrated to the United States from the Republic of Congo in June 2010 and...

Gaiutra Bahadur is an award-winning journalist who writes frequently about migration, literature and gender. Her essays, book reviews and reportage have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The...

Pierre Kattar is an Emmy Award-winning video journalist and documentary filmmaker. He developed his observational style of filmmaking during his 10 years at The Washington Post's website where he...

Jae is the first medical student to be accepted at McDonnell Scholars Academy at Washington University School of Medicine. He has lived in 11 places on three continents, and this exposure has...

Steve Elfers has been a visual storyteller for 27 years and has covered military conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and Somalia. Steve is the managing editor of multimedia for USA Today...

Ian James is a journalist who writes about water and the environment for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California. He is a member of the newspaper's investigative team, and his work also regularly...

Anna Hoffman is a senior at Kent State University pursuing degrees in political science and global communication studies. During previous trips abroad she has studied political dissidents in the Czech...

Emily Feldman is a journalist writing about migration, security and human rights. Her work has appeared in Newsweek Magazine, The New Yorker Online, Politico EU, The Daily Beast and other publications...

Julia O'Malley is a freelance journalist who writes about Alaska culture, people, politics, food and the environment. Julia began her freelance career in 2014. Before that she worked for the Anchorage...