Aala Abdullahi is the innovation editor at Sahan Journal, where she leads the newsroom's product design and community engagement efforts. An Al Jazeera and CBC alum, her passion lies most in using concrete data and audience insights to make strong editorial decisions, and producing ambitious, visual-first, interactive stories that put readers at the center of the story.

Julian Benbow has been a sportswriter at the Boston Globe for 16 years. He’s covered everything from the four major professional sports beats to skateboarding. He went to college at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.

Chabeli Carrazana (@ChabeliH) is the economy reporter for The 19th, where she covers gender disparities affecting low-income people and marginalized communities. Previously, Chabeli was a business reporter in Florida covering labor, the tourism industry and the space industry. She was born in Cuba, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.

Sara Coello (@smlcoello) is an investigative reporter for The Charlotte Observer, covering justice issues across North Carolina. Before joining, they covered criminal justice, legal issues and breaking news for The Dallas Morning News and the Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C.

Mel Fronczek (@melissafronczek) is a digital producer for the USA TODAY Network, South region. She primarily works on interactive graphics and data visualization, as well as digital design, audio production and search engine optimization. Mel has previously covered local government and education. She is a 2021 graduate of Indiana University-Bloomington, where she studied journalism and Spanish. She has also received training through the New York Times Student Journalism Institute and the Dow Jones News Fund.

Katy Golvala is an investigative researcher with the CT Mirror, a non-profit news organization that covers government and public policy in Connecticut. She is passionate about demystifying the health care industry and using data to tell stories. Katy has a bachelor’s degree in literature and mathematics from Williams College, and a master’s degree in business and economic journalism from Columbia Journalism School.

Raisa Habersham (@newsworthy17) is a watchdog reporter with the Savannah Morning News, where she covers courts and race. Her coverage has included the state murder and federal hate crime trials of the men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery, the costs of lengthy jail stays in the Chatham County Detention Center, and racial bias and disproportionate punishment against Black and brown students in the Effingham County School District.

Kenya Hunter (@KenyaTheHunter) is the health reporter at Capital B Atlanta. At Capital B, Kenya writes about health disparities in the metro-Atlanta area and the state with a special focus on Black people. Prior to joining Capital B, Kenya served as the education reporter at The Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Lilian Manansala (@lilianmanansala) is a Los Angeles-based video journalist at Insider on the News & Documentary Team; a producer for the podcasts From Here and Irredeemable; and is currently an assistant text e-book editor for NYU on the changing landscape of the media world. She earned her Master's in journalism at NYU in 2021 and before that, has been working as a professional choreographer, dancer, and performer.

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco (@__juanpab) is an environmental journalist at WNIJ Northern Public Radio, where he covers issues related to water quality, wildlife, and prairies throughout northern Illinois. He’s also a part of Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a reporting initiative from the Missouri School of Journalism and Report for America to expand coverage around the rapidly changing course of life throughout the Mississippi River system.

Damaso Reyes (@damasoreyes) is the investigative editor of the New York Amsterdam News and the founding editor of the Blacklight investigative unit. Previous assignments and projects have taken him to countries including Rwanda, Iraq, Indonesia, Tanzania and throughout the United States and Europe. His images are also featured in the monograph Black: A Celebration of a Culture and the book Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War.

Mackenzie Wilkes (@macwilkes) is a multimedia journalist currently based in Washington, D.C. Wilkes is completing a fellowship at POLITICO where she has covered breaking news, education policy and campaigns. A North Carolina native, Wilkes has prior experience covering polling, COVID-19 and law enforcement.