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Paul Kramer is a historian at Vanderbilt University who specializes in the United States' international history and the politics of inequality. He is the author of the prize-winning book "The Blood of...

Brent Renaud (left) and his brother Craig Renaud are Peabody Award winning documentary filmmakers, television producers, and film programmers living and working in New York City and Little Rock...

Sydney Combs is a visual reporter with a background in anthropology. She is currently a digital producer for National Geographic's History team where she regularly writes and photo edits stories about...

Helen C. Epstein is visiting professor of human rights and global public health at Bard College. She is the author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda and the War on Terror (Columbia Global Reports...

Diana Crandall holds a masters in journalism from the University of Southern California and is a graduate of Capital University. She is the recipient of the 2015 Emerging Photographer Scholarship...

Austin Davis is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan where he studied communication and German language and literature. Austin has worked as a production intern at the National Public Radio...

Betsy Saavedra is a bilingual reporter based in Westchester County. She is a SUNY Westchester Community College journalism graduate interested in in-depth coverage of race, poverty and immigration...

Maxwell grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan an avid reader of books and the news. In the spring of 2015, he graduated from the University of Michigan with a major in English Literature and a minor in...

Farzana Shah is a graduate nursing student at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BSN from Drexel University and began her career of nursing children in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at...

A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Julia Boccagno recently graduated magna cum laude from American University with a degree in broadcast journalism in May 2015. She also pursued a double minor in...

Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist. They are a contributing opinion writer to the New York Times and a frequent contributor to New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The...