North America

Diksha is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania where she is studying English and business. She grew up in Dubai and India and has been concerned about social and environmental responsibility...

Jonathan Cox is a rising senior majoring in political science at Davidson College. Although born in Columbia, South Carolina, he grew up in Bucharest, Romania, where his parents work as missionaries...

Shirley is a rising senior at Loyola University Chicago focusing on international relations, journalism and Latin American studies. She studied journalism last spring in Chile and is excited to have...

Jeffrey E. Stern is a writer and development worker whose reporting from Afghanistan, Kashmir, and elsewhere has been published by The Atlantic. The New Republic, Slate, Foreign Policy, Esquire, Time...

Award-winning videographer, photographer, and editor Sat Nandlall has traveled to 72 countries in his more than 20 years as a photojournalist. He has shot for CBS, NBC, CNN, CBC, and National...

Roger Thurow was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 30 years, 20 of them as a foreign correspondent based in Europe and Africa. His coverage of global affairs spanned the Cold War and the fall...

Carlos Javier Ortiz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Chicago. He has been awarded many accolades including the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Photography award...

Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange, a marketing and strategy advisory boutique with a focus on innovation and emerging markets. Headquartered in Minneapolis, with partners around the globe...

Sarah Wildman writes on the intersection of culture and politics, history and memory in Europe and America. Over the last decade, she has lived in and reported from Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Washington...

Photojournalist Mary Chind has been with the Des Moines Register since 1999. Chind previously worked for two Arizona newspapers, The Sierra Vista Herald and The Tucson Citizen. While reporting on...

Tony Leys, 47, has been an editor and reporter for the Des Moines Register since 1988. He has primarily covered health care since 2000, while also dabbling in politics and other subjects. His projects...