Tanzina Vega writes for the Boston Globe, is an advisory board member for City Limits, and the founder of La Mala Media. Tanzina has been a reporter, editor, producer, and host for multiple organizations, and has received the Robert G. McGruder Distinguished Lecture and Award from Kent State University. She also recieved multiple citations from the National Press Photographers Association and a contributing producer recognition in the 31st annual news and documentary Emmy Awards.

Sara Goo is the editor-in-chief at Axios, overseeing the 200+ journalist newsroom. She joined Axios in 2019 as executive editor and launched the company’s podcast operation, including the hit show, How it Happened, and the Hard Truths series examining systemic racism. Goo has held leadership roles at several national news organizations, primarily overseeing digital news coverage and strategy. Before Axios, she was a managing editor at NPR, overseeing the newsroom's digital content and strategy. Goo spent most of her career at The Washington Post, as a national business reporter, digital editor and senior news director.

Niala Boodhoo is the host of Axios’ 1 big thing, a weekly podcast where she talks to people who are leading conversations around the world in business, politics and culture. She is also a regular guest host for 1A, one of the most widely-listened programs on National Public Radio (NPR). Niala has been a journalist for more than 20 years for the Associated Press, Reuters, WBEZ/Chicago Public Media - and her hometown paper, The Miami Herald. She was part of the 2019-2020 class of Knight-Wallace Fellows.

Estelle Tang is the lifestyle and wellness editor at the Guardian US. Previously, she was the deputy culture editor at BuzzFeed News, and senior culture editor at Vogue and ELLE.

Marisa Kashino manages The Home You Own, a section for The Washington Post. Kashino was previously a senior editor and writer at Washingtonian magazine.

Betsy Agnvall is a health editor and writer at AARP. She previously worked as a freelance writer for The Washington Post, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Safety and Health magazine and other publications.

Juliet is the Senior Editor for BrainFacts.org. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in print journalism from Howard University in 2006, she worked at the Embassy of Austria in the Office of Science & Technology and for the online magazine bridges on transatlantic science, technology, and innovation policy.

Tracy Scott Forson is journalist who has worked at the Washington Post, BET, and the Humane Society’s magazine, All Animals. She also served as a senior editor at Studio Gannett and has created websites and published articles in numerous outlets. Tracy recently joined the staff of the Smithsonian Magazine as a senior editor.

Rachel Epstein is the deputy digital editor at Men's Health, where she oversees, edits, and assigns content across MensHealth.com. Prior to joining the brand, she held roles at Marie Claire, where she wrote and edited culture, politics, and lifestyle stories, as well as Coveteur, where she oversaw the site's daily editorial operations. She lives in New York City.

Cara Reedy is the Founder and Director of the Disabled Journalists Association. She's a journalist who spent ten years at CNN producing documentaries as well as writing for various verticals. In 2019, she produced her most recent doc for The Guardian entitled Dwarfism and Me.

Kylie Warner is the associate editor at 1843, The Economist’s features magazine, where she works on long-form pieces. She was previously an intern at 1843 and an assistant editor at The New Yorker. She lives in London.

Benét J. Wilson is director of the Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship and serves on the board of Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism. She previously edited and wrote for The Points Guy and has served on the Online News Association and the National Association of Black Journalists boards.

Stephanie Daniel is the senior managing editor and a reporter with KUNC, NPR for Northern Colorado. She has reported on K-12 and higher education, the opioid crisis, social justice issues, 19th century Chinese miners and much more. In 2021, Stephanie was selected as a Higher Education Media Fellow by the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. Through this fellowship, she created the award-winning The Colorado Dream podcast which examines how today’s biggest social issues are impacting local communities. Listen to all three seasons wherever you get your podcasts.

Dianna Náñez is Arizona Luminaria's Executive Editor and co-founder. She is an investigative journalist, narrative writer/editor and storytelling coach whose story of Indigenous and borderlands communities was part of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning Arizona Republic team coverage. She served as a board member for NAHJ and is a member of the 2017 cohort of ASNE’s Emerging Leaders Institute.

Meredith Clark is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies. She is also the Founding Director of the College of Arts, Media and Design’s Center for Communication, Media Innovation, and Social Change. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power in digital, social, and news media, and is informed by the years she spent working in newsrooms as an editor, editorial writer and columnist.

Seyward Darby is editor in chief of The Atavist Magazine. She is the author of the book Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines, and she has written for publications including The New York Times, Harper's, and The Guardian.

Angilee Shah is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Charlottesville Tomorrow and a coach for news organizations and journalists around the country. Shah spent six years as an editor of Global Nation, PRI’s The World’s coverage of immigration in the US. Further work includes a book about everyday lives in China and a trio of investigative stories about the end of Sri Lanka’s 30-year civil war.

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos is the Public Editor of the Public Broadcasting Service and a former supervising editor of NPR's Morning Edition broadcast, an editor with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Sacramento Bee, and a Latin America correspondent for U.S. newspapers. He recently co-founded palabra. and co-authored the award-winning biography, "The Fight In the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement.”

Joanna Clay is a senior producer at Neon Hum Media, where she has developed and led shows for clients such as ESPN, Discovery+ and Thrive. She reported and produced the NHM original Telescope, with two of her episodes getting a shoutout in The New York Times. In 2021, she launched the NHM original vertical Spectacle, which made “Best Of” lists in The Atlantic, Time, Esquire, Vogue, Marie Claire and more.

Maudlyne Ihejirika is the Field Foundation's Journalism & Storytelling Program Manager and is responsible for supporting the foundation’s work in seeking to change how news production and storytelling reflect Chicago. Maudlyne focuses on Field’s goal of creating a more equitable, connected, and inclusive local media ecosystem in which the stories of all Chicagoans are told accurately, fairly, authoritatively, and contextually.

Data journalist Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, and the author of several books, including “More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech” and “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.”

Frankie de la Cretaz is a freelance writer whose work sits at the intersection of sports, gender, culture, and queerness. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, the Washington Post, Bleacher Report, The Ringer, The Atlantic, and many others.

Tim Herrera is a freelance writer/editor, writing coach, event host, and consultant. He is the founder of Freelancing with Tim, a newsletter that seeks to lower the barrier of entry into journalism by offering weekly Zoom panels featuring seasoned journalists.

Nikita Roy is a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists and hosts the Newsroom Robots podcast. She leads the AI Journalism Lab at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Her expertise has been highlighted in Nieman Lab, Yahoo Finance, and CBC. Additionally, she has contributed as a Generative AI Specialist to developing an AI tool at the University of Toronto.

Jessica Lahey is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed and The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence.She has written about education, parenting, and child welfare for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the New York Times. She co-hosts the #AmWriting podcast.

Winner of the New York Times Award for Outstanding Journalism, Kerra is an accomplished writer and filmmaker specializing in first-person narrative nonfiction that examines the meaning of community, connection, and identity in Black communities. Her work was featured in Memoir Land, CNN.com, CNN Español, Hearst Magazines, The Times of Israel, New Worlder, Ebony, and Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. Kerra is also the CEO and Founder of Woodbine Ventures, a transitional career coaching company. She is currently working on her memoir, Water in My Bones, and documentary film directorial debut, Return of the Black Madonna. Both projects trace her epic quest to learn to swim, dive, and map sunken slave ships with Black marine archeologists.

Alex Lewis is the co-founder of Rowhome Productions, a Philadelphia-based production house that specializes in making audio documentaries, podcast series, & audio tours. Since Rowhome's founding in Fall 2020, they've worked on dozens of projects with a wide-range of companies & organizations including Topic Studios, Pushkin Industries, iHeart, NPR, Asian Arts Initiative, & many more. Prior to Rowhome, Alex worked as an independent producer for over a decade, writing and producing award-winning longform audio documentaries, mostly for public media outlets. He’s also been the longtime producer of The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. His work has been recognized with a National Edward R. Murrow Award and a Peabody nomination

As a first-generation Latina, Olga was one of the eight founding attorneys of the Bronx Defenders, a holistic public defender's office. She is now faculty in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University, a program that seeks to improve the doctor-patient relationship. Olga also works as a patient advocate, and she’s the Northeast Region Advocacy Chair for the Lupus Foundation of America. Olga’s been published in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, Parents, Next Avenue, and various other publications about healthcare, disability rights, and BIPOC issues. Olga received her BA from Cornell University and her JD at Georgetown University Law Center. As a mami, she returned to Columbia University for an MS in Narrative Medicine.

P. Kim Bui is the former senior director of product and audience innovation at The Arizona Republic. A native Iowan, she’s focused her career on leading real-time news initiatives and creating new storytelling forms for digital, print and broadcast companies catering to local, national and global audiences

Melba Newsome is an award-winning independent journalist with over 20 years of experience contributing investigative education, health, and environmental features to regional and national publications, including Scientific American, Nature, National Geographic, Science News, WIRED, and High Country News. She is a two-time Pulitzer Center and 2023 Alicia Patterson fellow.

Morgan Sung writes to explore social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more. She also runs rat.house, a newsletter about tech and digital culture.

Sarah Stirland is a writer/radio and podcast producer living in Silicon Valley. She co-teaches, produces, and edits San Francisco Bay Area high school student stories for KALW’s Summer Podcasting Institute. The Institute publishes an award-winning podcast called tbh.

Sylvia A. Harvey is a journalist, speaker, and the author of The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family. SAH's work has appeared in The Nation, Elle, Politico, Vox, The Marshall Project, Colorlines, and more. NPR, WBAI, HuffPost Live, Cheddar News, and others, have featured her commentary. Her work is being used in university coursework and has been cited by federal lawmakers.

Pamela K. Johnson is a journalist, 2nd vice president of the National Writers Union, former editor of Essence magazine, and 2023-2024 O’Brien Public Service Journalism fellow. She has been published in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Pamela was a fellow in AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, and has shot short films across the globe. She is writing a novel, and was recently selected as Professional Artist Fellow by the Arts Council for Long Beach, California.

Damon Brown helps side hustlers, solopreneurs & others bloom. As a bestselling author, 2x startup founder & 4x TEDTalker, Damon co-founded the popular connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year while being a stay at home dad with his infant son. Today, his boutique coaching business Bring Your Worth supports hundreds through one-on-one guidance, as well as behind-the-scenes services for TED, Heroic Public Speaking, and other impactful organizations. You can catch his free weekly newsletter as well as his popular television show BringYourWorth.tv. His 27th book, The Complete Bring Your Worth Collection, is available now https://amzn.to/3SoxLNw.

James Salanga is a reporter covering the central coast for KAZU and the co-executive director for The Objective. They focus on covering place, labor, disability, education, the ongoing pandemic and community movements.

Taylor Moore is the associate program manager at the International Women's Media Foundation, where she manages grants, fellowships and awards. Based in Chicago, she is also a freelance journalist.

Fernanda Santos is a Brazilian-American journalist whose work focuses on underrepresented and misrepresented communities. She is the author of "The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots."

Jamila Bey is the editorial director of WHYY News and was previously a longtime freelancer and radio talk show host. Jamila has over 20 years of experience at news organizations, including NPR, Viacom/BET, and The Washington Post, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and NPR.

Sa’iyda is a writer and editor who writes about the intersections of parenting, race, sexuality, gender and socioeconomic status as well as lifestyle and pop culture. A former writer and editor at Scary Mommy, her work has also been published by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Valeria is a Phoenix-based investigative journalist and managing editor of palabra.. She has produced documentaries for Discovery Spanish, CNN Español, and PBS. Her work can be found in The Guardian, California Sunday Magazine, Latino USA and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. She won the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, and as a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow, created the podcast Comadres al Aire.

Jaeah Lee is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a 2021-2022 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow. She has written for numerous publications and is a recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, served as a board member for the Asian American Journalists Association's San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, and was a contributing editor for PEN America’s The Sentences That Create Us.

Erika is a writer whose stories appear in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Atlantic, and many others. Erika was a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow and an Alicia Patterson Fellow, and is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Time. Erika currently teaches at the University of California, Irvine as a professor in the Literary Journalism Program.

Liv Monahan is a freelance journalist, editor, educator, public speaker, and Ida B. Wells Investigative Fellow Finalist.

Katherine is a science journalist and author who writes for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Parents, and The Washington Post. Her 2018 book The Good News About Bad Behavior grew out of Mother Jones’ most-read article. A biracial journalist (Asian American and White), she previously worked as a national correspondent for Newhouse News Service and Bloomberg News.

Ellen is an independent journalist whose writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Wirecutter, The Atlantic, Real Simple and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she was a business and technology reporter. She serves as the co-director of the Asian American Journalists Association Freelance Affinity Group and co-director of the AAJA Media Institute.

Yvonne Liu is a Los Angeles-based writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Newsweek, The Rumpus, NBC News, and more. Over three million people read her HuffPost adoptee essay. Yvonne is a Bread Loaf, VONA, and Tin House writing workshop alum and will attend Kenyon Review and Tin House workshops this year. She also volunteers with The Op-Ed Project to amplify marginalized voices and was featured on the NYT Modern Love podcast.

Meena Thiruvengadam is a traveler who explores the world with the curiosity of a journalist. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Travel with Meena. She's worked for Bloomberg, Business Insider, and Yahoo, and continues to contribute to publications including Conde Nast Traveler, Travel+Leisure, Fodor's Travel, The Washington Post and more.

Starlight Williams is an editor for National Geographic who focuses her work on ecotourism, accessible adventures, cultural tourism, wellness travel, and paranormal tourism. When not on the hunt for engaging pitches (send yours to starlight.williams@natgeo.com), you can find Starlight on her yoga mat working on her niyamas.

Amanda Finnegan is the creator and editor of By The Way, The Washington Post’s travel destination for news, tips and city guides. Prior to that, Amanda was a homepage editor at The Post, as well as an editor on the Politics and Local desks. She splits her time between Chicago and D.C.

Tacey Rychter is a staff editor on the New York Times Travel desk. She also writes, contributing travel guides and reporting on topics like flight attendant burnout. Before joining the Travel desk in 2019, she worked with the Times's Australian bureau in Sydney, helping to grow the local audience and reporting news and features. Before that, she was the Melbourne editor of an Australian food and culture magazine called Broadsheet.

Raha Naddaf is a Story Editor at The New York Times Magazine. Before that she was at The California Sunday Magazine, where she has been the executive editor since 2017. Before joining Cal Sunday, Raha was the features editor at The Marshall Project, a senior editor at New York magazine and an associate editor at GQ magazine.

Mimi Wong is Editor-in-Chief of The Offing and her fiction and nonfiction work have appeared in Joyland, The Margins, The Believer, Catapult, Electric Literature, and was anthologized in Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts (Paper Monument/n+1, 2021). For her writing on contemporary art from artists in the Asian diaspora, she was awarded the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She has taught literature at Barnard College and currently teaches art criticism and writing at The New School.

Fernanda Santos got her start in journalism in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, her home country, and was the first Brazilian to become a staff writer for The New York Times, where she worked for 12 years. She’s a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, a writing coach in the Poynter Institute’s Power of Diverse Voices and a co-writer of the Off Broadway musical ¡Americano!. Her first book, The Fire Line, is about one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history. She’s currently at work on a memoir.

Jenny started her career at Bustle when it launched in 2013, and spent five years building out its news and politics department. In 2018, she joined Marie Claire and now serves as its Digital Director. Her first novel, $ EVERYONE WHO CAN FORGIVE ME IS DEAD$ , will be published by Minotaur Books on February 6, 2024.

Katherine LaGrave is a deputy editor at AFAR focused on features and essays. Her work has been recognized in the Best American Food Writing and the Best American Science & Nature Writing. The Society of American Travel Writers named her the 2021 Travel Journalist of the Year. A graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, she is an adjunct professor at Fordham University. She lives in New York City.

Carren is the Senior Editor for Culture at Stacker Media, which produces national and local stories that contextualize today's biggest news and bring the world's most compelling data sets to life. She is also a children’s book author.

Lori Leibovich is the editor of the Well section of the New York Times. A digital media veteran, she has worked at HuffPost, Time Inc., Salon, theSkimm and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Frida Garza is an editor of special projects at the Guardian US, where she commissions stories on climate, environment, labor, and more. Before that, she was a senior staff writer at Jezebel, covering culture and politics. She is from El Paso, Texas.

Greg is a senior editor at the Boston Globe who previously spent eight years as a senior assistant sports editor. He also was a senior managing editor of The Athletic DC and has written for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, The Washington Post, The Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, and NBA.com at Turner Sports. He is the former president of the National Association of Black Journalists and a 2013 winner of the Missouri Honor Medal.

Kyung Song is a managing editor at WebMD. She leads a team of staff editors and writers and is the lead recruiter for freelancers. She worked for The Seattle Times for 16 years, covering Congress, aerospace, and health (not simultaneously). Kyung started her career as a business report for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. She was born in Seoul and grew up in Seattle.

Alisa Hrustic joined SELF in September 2021 as Health Director before eventually becoming Executive Editor. She helped lead the launch of Conditionally, SELF’s first health conditions vertical. She’s previously held positions at national publications like Women’s Health, Men’s Health, and Prevention, where she contributed to both print and digital content. She currently lives in Brooklyn but is a Midwesterner at heart, and is especially into birding right now.

Christine Yu is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on the intersection of sports science and women athletes. Her writing has appeared in Outside, The Washington Post, Time, Runner’s World, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Mike Dang is an editor at The New York Times on the Business desk. He was previously a senior editor at The Counter where he helped developed a podcast investigating the National School Lunch Program and was the longtime editor in chief of Longreads, which was nominated for four National Magazine Awards. In 2012, he co-founded The Billfold, a personal finance site for young people.

Manseen Logan is an editor of freelancers at Insider focused on business stories. Before joining Insider, she was an editor at Complex Media, where she edited the Life section and created political articles for the webby-nominated "Pull Up and Vote" campaign. Manseen received her MFA in writing from Savannah College of Art and Design. She currently resides in New Jersey, where she spends her free time managing Liberian projects and athlete profiles.

Monique LeBrun is the associate health and fitness editor at Runner's World and Bicycling Magazine. She has five years of experience in the media industry. Monique received her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 2019, and her bachelor’s degree in communication from Penn State University in 2016. She’s previously worked for 1010 Wins, ABC's 7 on Your Side, and the New York Times Upfront Magazine.

Emanuele came to This American Life from Gimlet Media. There she worked on several shows including The Nod, Undone and StartUp. Previously, Emanuele worked as a public radio reporter in Michigan and Missouri. Emanuele is a 2014 AIR New Voices Scholar. She is also the recipient of a 2015 Fulbright award to Macau, Chinaem

I'm a senior editor at Businessweek. Previously, I've worked at Gimlet, as the head of Society & Culture programming; Topic magazine; Atlas Obscura; Fast Company; BuzzFeed.

Shernay spent more than a decade as a journalist for television, radio, and print outlets throughout the South and East Coast before serving as a business coach, running a content firm, and in 2020, launching The ​Black Mompreneur. Recently Shernay became host and producer of a digital series for TheGrio called "A Taste of Chocolate," where she visits notable Black-owned restaurants to learn the stories behind their food.

Cerise Castle’s reporting and commentary have been featured by ABC, Autre, Capital & Main, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, The LAnd, Los Angeles Magazine, MTV, National Public Radio (NPR), Salon and Vanity Fair. She wrote the first history of deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and in 2021 she created, A Tradition of Violence. She has recently recieved numerous awards and in addition to writing, Castle is the managing editor of Knock LA and she previously hosted and produced segments for VICE News Tonight, NPR, Marketplace, Audible, iHeartMedia, and Wondery.

Rafael Espinal is a proud Brooklyn native of Dominican descent. At the age of 26, he was elected into the New York State Assembly, then later the New York City Council, where he championed workers' rights, affordable housing and environmental initiatives. He became the Executive Director of the Freelancers Union in 2020, where he now focuses on advocating for the rights and interests of freelance workers, drawing on his extensive background in politics and community service.

Shraddha Chakradhar is currently the deputy news editor for diversity at Science and was most recently deputy editor of Nieman Journalism Lab. Before that she was a reporter and internship coordinator at STAT. There she wrote the newsletter Morning Rounds, and won the 2021 World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers North American Digital Media Award for Best Newsletter. She has previously served as an editor and reporter at Nature Medicine, where she covered cancer, infectious disease, diversity in biomedical fields, and more.

Sarah Carr has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Slate, and more, winning numerous awards. Past fellowship grants include the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship, the O’Brien Fellowship for Public Service Journalism, and the Russell Sage Visiting Journalist fellowship. She is the author of “Hope Against Hope” (Bloomsbury, 2013) and has taught at both SUNY New Paltz and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Carr was editor of an investigative team at the Boston Globe, The Great Divide, and a staff writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, the New Orleans Times Picayune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Shayla Martin is an award-winning travel writer and editor. She is the former digital editor of Four Seasons Magazine. She has been published in consumer publications including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Coastal Living AARP magazine, Veranda, Hemispheres, New York Magazine, Shondaland, Wine Enthusiast, House Beautiful, Insider.com, CNN Travel and more.