Frank Bi is a journalist, technologist, educator and nonprofit leader committed to building business models for digital media. He focuses on the intersection of journalism, technology and media business strategy. He is a Product Manager and the Director of Tools & Technology at the Minnesota Star Tribune where he leads the strategy and execution of the Star Tribune's most important products with the goal of delivering impactful journalism and driving audience growth. Frank is currently an Executive MBA candidate at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Taylor Crumpton is a dynamic music, pop culture, and politics writer from Dallas. Her work, which is known for its sharp cultural critique can be found in the nation’s most revered publications like TIME, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, and NPR, among others. Crumpton writes about a range of topics from Black Queer advocacy to the underrepresented hip-hop scenes in the southern United States to pop analysis on releases like “Cowboy Carter”, “WAP”, and “Black Is King”. She frequently appears as a guest commentator, panelist, and speaker in the media and entertainment industries.

Michelle Cyca is a journalist from Vancouver. She is the bureau chief of conservation and fellowships at The Narwhal, a contributing writer to The Walrus, and the incoming Asper Visiting Professor at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing and Media, where she is teaching a new class on freelancing. Michelle is a member of Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6, Saskatchewan.

Samia Madwar is a senior editor at The Walrus and has previously held editorial roles at Up Here and Canadian Geographic magazines. Over the past decade, she has judged a number of journalism awards, including the National Magazine Awards, the American Society of Magazine Editors, and the Online News Association. She has served as a mentor for the National Media Awards Foundation and the Canadian Association for Journalists, and guest edited for the Review of Journalism.

Chris is the editor of Bloomberg Pursuits, the luxury, lifestyle and culture vertical at Bloomberg News. He is also an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. Previously, he has been an editor at Vanity Fair and New York Magazine.

Pavlína Černá has been with Hearst Magazines—Runner’s World, Bicycling, and Popular Mechanics—since August 2021, most recently as senior features editor. In her role, she has edited stories ranging from profiles of famous athletes and in-depth exploration of widespread health issues to DIY projects and the possibility of space becoming the next front for war. When she doesn’t edit, she writes; when she doesn’t write, she reads or translates from or to her native Czech.

Tony Ho Tran is the Senior Technology Editor of Slate. He was formerly the Senior Innovation for Editor at The Daily Beast and a Staff Writer for Futurism. His work has been seen in Playboy, Outside Magazine, HuffPost, and wherever else fine writing is published. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Joseph is the Associate Director for Bon Appétit and Epicurious, having previously served as research director. Though he leads beverage coverage for both brands, he also produces culture, food, and travel content across the BA universe. Over his nearly two decade journalism career, Joseph has covered food, wine, travel, and culture as a senior editor and features reporter at multiple publications, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chicago Tribune, SevenFifty Daily, Thrillist, and Wine Enthusiast. He's also a former vice- and regional chair for the James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chefs committee, working alongside reporters, editors, and restaurant critics to identify and celebrate the country’s talented chefs, leaders and innovators. Joseph’s freelance work has also been published by Eater, Condé Nast Traveler, and Afar Magazine, among others. Please, don’t call him Joe.

Elisabeth Goodridge is the award-winning deputy travel editor for The New York Times. She began her career at The Times in 2008. Previously, she worked at The Associated Press
and the Boston Globe, and earned degrees from Colgate University and the Medill School of
Journalism at Northwestern University. She was a Class of 2023 Fellow at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.

Tami Abdollah is a senior editor at Noema Magazine. She was previously a national correspondent at USA TODAY focused on the inequities and disparities of the criminal justice system, among other subjects.

Deborah Jian Lee is an award-winning journalist and radio producer, senior editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, journalism fellow at Harvard Divinity School and the author of Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism (Beacon Press). She has worked as a staff reporter for the Associated Press, taught journalism at Columbia University, and has bylines in Esquire, Fast Company, ELLE, Foreign Policy, TIME, WBEZ and others. Winner of a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award and the Education Writers Association’s Eddie Prize, she was also named a finalist for the Livingston Awards.

Based at National Geographic's headquarters in Washington, D.C., I lead a team of editors in ideating and assigning stories across all of our core subject areas, which include history, animals, health, science, and the environment. I have a special love for explainers, particularly in history and health.

Bernice Yeung serves on the board of directors for The Fund for Investigative Journalism. She is also the managing director of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Journalism. Previously, she was a reporter for ProPublica and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, PBS FRONTLINE and The New York Times, and she has been a member of investigative teams that have received a George Polk Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She is the author of In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers (The New Press, 2018), which received a PEN America Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.

As Director of Innovation Kat Duncan leads RJI’s innovative initiatives, programs and workshops. This includes the Student Innovation Competition, the Professional Fellowship program and the Student Innovation Fellowship program. She founded the Community-Centered Symposium and the Women in Journalism Workshop. She manages the innovation team, student staff and leads partnership projects with local newsrooms, organizations and individuals. She also teaches Emerging Tech & Innovation at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Her mission is to move journalism forward through collaborations that can provide free, accessible, open source, practical and timely resources for journalists, newsrooms and the communities they serve.

Marina Walker Guevara is the Pulitzer Center's executive editor. Before joining the Center, Walker Guevara was deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). She managed two of the largest collaborations of reporters in journalism history: The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers, which involved hundreds of journalists using technology to unravel stories of public interest from terabytes of leaked financial data.

Walker Guevara was instrumental in developing the model of large-scale media collaboration, persuading reporters who used to compete with one another instead to work together, share resources and amplify their reach and impact.

Joe Hong is an education journalist based in Brooklyn. As a current O'Brien Fellow in Public Service Journalism, he's writing a series of articles about the past, present and future of math education. He's also writing a book about Asian Americans and the racial politics of learning math in the United States. Previously, he covered education for a variety of newsrooms in California, including CalMatters, KPBS and The Desert Sun.

Mark A. Stein is an editor at Next Avenue. Over the course of his career, he has been a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, an editor at The New York Times and Bloomberg News in London, and started a website for Conde Nast Publications.

Alan Henry is Managing Editor at PC Mag in New York City. He was previously Director of Special Projects at WIRED, Smarter Living editor at The New York Times and editor in chief of Lifehacker. He is also the author of the book "Seen, Heard, and Paid: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized."

Katie Kingsbury has been at the Times since 2017. Before she was running the desk, she was a deputy editor working on pieces surrounding guns, domestic violence, race, and culture. Prior to that, she worked at The Boston Globe as Managing Editor of Digital. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her series on poor working conditions and pay in the restaurant industry.

Corinna Wu is a science journalist and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently manages Undark’s opinion section and edits features. Prior to joining Undark, she spent nearly a decade as a news and features editor for Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) and was a 2005-06 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Corinna has a background in materials science and engineering and is a graduate of the science communication program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jhodie Williams is an editor at Bloomberg Opinion, where she oversees the US culture coverage. Previously she was an editor at NBC News' opinion vertical, THINK, and at CNN Opinion.

Louie Villalobos is a veteran journalist of 25 years, which includes years of being a reporter before moving to several editing roles. He has spent the past seven years at USA TODAY, where he started as a politics editor. He is currently the director of opinion for Gannett and runs the USA TODAY Opinion team.

Isabelle Kohn is a senior editor for Slate's Life section. She specializes in sex, relationships, gender, and, randomly, work. She used to freelance for VICE, Playboy, Harper's Bazaar, and many, many more. It was hard.

Tyler Huckabee, managing editor of Sojo.net, has written for the Washington Post, the Week, Religion News Service, and Sojourners, largely about the intersection of faith, justice, and pop culture.

Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis and the co-founders and lead editors of the Sick Times, a website devoted to chronicling Long COVID from all angles. Based on opposite coasts, Ladyzhets and Griffis founded the Sick Times in 2023 to continue providing critical coverage of the ongoing pandemic after many publications seemed to move on. While the Sick Times is only a couple of years old, they are open for freelance pitches!

Dr. Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi is the Indigenous Affairs Editor at High Country News. Sunnie is an award-winning journalist who has reported for outlets like Navajo Times, the Osage News, The Guardian, USA Today, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. In 2023, she received her PhD in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies from The University of New Mexico. She serves on the board of directors for the Indigenous Journalists Association and teaches at Arizona State University.