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Cheryl Hatch is an independent journalist and documentary photographer with extensive international experience. Hatch has focused her camera and reporting on war, its aftermath and its effects on...

Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. He is the bestselling author of All the Ways We Kill and Die, and the war memoir The Long...

Matt Black is a photographer from California's Central Valley. His work has explored themes of migration, poverty and the environment in his native rural California and in southern Mexico. Recent...

Erika Check Hayden is a reporter for the science journal Nature. She covers biology and medicine, and is deeply interested in infectious disease, genetics and global health. Erika has reported for...

Sarah Weiser is a reporter and documentary photographer with Retro Report, a video news organization that seeks to tell the stories of today through the lens of the recent past that shaped them...

Gabe is an Emmy-award winning video journalist for The Washington Post and an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. His work has been published across the globe in...

Award-winning journalist Sarah A. Topol has reported from more than 40 countries around the world. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.

James O'Shea is a veteran journalist, author and editor with broad and deep experience in journalism. He was editor and executive vice president of the Los Angeles Times and managing editor of the...

Travel is the enemy of bigotry. I am a Bulgaria-born, Chicago-bred, New York city-based photojournalist, and the spark that wakes me in the morning is my passion for photography, writing, music, U.S...

Luke Nozicka is a sophomore studying journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is a reporter for SIU's student-run newspaper, The Daily Egyptian, covering administration, police and...

Eleanor Bell Fox is video journalist, broadcaster and multimedia producer with a focus on social and economic equity issues. She joined the Center for Public Integrity's digital team as Multimedia...