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Alex Blumberg, an award-winning radio journalist, is the editorial director and co-founder of Gimlet Media. Prior to Gimlet, he was a producer for This American Life and the co-founder of Planet Money...

Lyndsey Gilpin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Southerly. Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and now based in Durham, N.C., she is a reporter and editor who has covered climate change...

Carrie Porter is a journalist and media strategist. Her current projects include researching business models for news as a consultant, developing newsletter strategy, and producing a podcast on...

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. is the president & founder of Hip Hop Caucus, a minister, community activist, and U.S. Air Force veteran. Rev Yearwood founded Hip Hop Caucus in September of 2004. The goal of...

Ken Foskett is a senior editor for investigations at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he leads a team of investigative and data journalists who watchdog state and local government. Additionally...

J. Scott Trubey is an investigative reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Of late, Trubey has focused on the coronavirus pandemic and the state’s response to COVID-19. Trubey joined the AJC in...

John Perry is technical director of the Data Journalism Team at The Atlanta-Journal Constitution. He has more than 25 years of experience as a data journalist working at The Oklahoman newspaper in...

Jennifer Peebles is a newsroom data specialist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, helping reporters find and tell stories with government data (and sometimes documents, too). She is the former...

Emily Merwin DiRico is a news applications developer at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was a founding member of the AJC's data journalism team, where she works with reporters to help readers...

Xiaoli Zhou is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and instructor at University of Chicago Laboratory Schools with a strong journalism background. As a native Chinese and a graduate of UC Berkeley...

Dr. Amina Asim is an award-winning media analyst, data scientist, writer and producer. She is an expert in the field of transnational media strategy and digital storytelling. She has a Ph.D. from...