Tim Alberta is a journalist, author and staff writer for The Atlantic. He formerly served as chief political correspondent for POLITICO. In 2019 he published “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump,” which debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. In 2023 he published, “The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism,” which spent 11 weeks on the Times bestseller list. Other career highlights include co-moderating a 2020 presidential debate and winning the National Magazine Award for his profile of then-CNN Worldwide chairman Chris Licht. Alberta is a proud graduate of Michigan State University.

David de Jong

David de Jong is a journalist and author who currently works as a Middle East correspondent for Het Financieele Dagblad, the Netherlands’s premier business newspaper. His stories are known for holding the rich and powerful accountable. De Jong’s first book, “Nazi Billionaires: the Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties,” was published in 2022 by HarperCollins and has since been translated from English into more than twenty languages. De Jong previously reported for Bloomberg News, covering European banking and finance from Amsterdam and hidden wealth and billionaires from New York. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg Businessweek, among other publications. De Jong hails from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Ismail Einashe

Ismail Einashe is a London-based journalist and author whose work on migration and refugee issues has appeared in numerous publications – including Foreign Policy, The Guardian, BBC News, The Nation, The Sunday Times and ArtReview. He is the author of “Strangers” (2023), a book by Tate Publishing that explores migration through the lens of art, and he co-edited “Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere” (2019), a collection of critical essays examining how migrants are represented in European media. Einashe is also part of a team of journalists working on a cross-border journalism collaborative called Lost in Europe, which investigates the disappearance of child migrants.

Heidi Groover

Heidi Groover is a real estate reporter for The Seattle Times, where her coverage of the region’s housing crisis spans market trends, land-use debates, eviction proceedings and more. In 2022, the National Association of Real Estate Editors recognized three of her stories, including an article on the struggle to find affordable housing for newly resettled refugees, as the best collection of work by a reporter covering residential real estate. Before The Seattle Times, Heidi got her start in alt-weeklies, reporting for The Inlander in Spokane, Washington, and The Stranger in Seattle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana and a proud member of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild.

Katelyn Harrop

Katelyn Harrop is an independent journalist with a focus on impact-driven reporting, often told through a local narrative. She has covered local and national politics in the Midwest, climate change solutions in New England and federal policies and culture for a national audience. She most recently worked as a senior producer at WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, where she directed a partnership between the investigative newsroom ProPublica and the public radio show On Point that focused on building out investigative reporting for a broadcast audience. Harrop was also a founding producer of WBUR’s The Common, a daily, local-first news and culture podcast. Previously, she worked on audio projects for multiple regional and national public radio collaborations and at The Boston Globe and Iowa Public Radio.

Elizabeth Jensen consults on journalism ethics and standards and is the co-chair of Press Forward Northern Michigan, an organization working to support local journalism in the region. A longtime media beat reporter, Jensen is an expert on U.S. public media and served as NPR’s fifth public editor/ombudsman. In that role, she represented the interests of the public in the newsroom, and created a series of live events where NPR journalists discussed their newsgathering processes and ethical decisions. Over her career, she has reported for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, was a regular contributor to The New York Times, investigated vegetarian marshmallow fraud for CNBC, and taught food journalism at New York University. A native of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, she moved back to her home state in 2021 and has been working since then to understand the changing information landscape.

Hyeonjun Lee

Hyeonjun Lee is a reporter at Korea’s public broadcast network, KBS, with experience covering both the ruling and opposition parties. Recently, he has focused on South Korea’s policies and diplomacy as a reporter covering the presidential office. Lee believes broadcast journalism’s competitive edge lies in documentary production and disaster coverage. At KBS, he has produced documentaries on topics such as the semiconductor competition between Samsung and TSMC, the effectiveness of masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and citizens fighting against the military during the Myanmar coup. He has also reported from disaster sites like Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the Nice terror attack, and the earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan.

Ashish Malhotra

Ashish Malhotra is a producer for Al Jazeera English, where he has spent close to a decade in various roles for the channel’s television and digital departments. He’s currently a producer for Al Jazeera’s daily, international news podcast, “The Take.” In between stints at Al Jazeera, Malhotra spent more than three years based in India, where he worked for the Hindustan Times and international outlets including Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The Times of London and CityLab. Malhotra has worked across platforms – from magazine, to TV, documentary, print and podcasts – and has reported on issues and events such as the Rohingya Refugee Crisis, the 2019 Indian election and the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States.

Rosem Morton

Rosem Morton is a freelance documentary photographer, registered nurse and educator based in Baltimore. Her work draws from her varied experiences to examine how gender, health and racial inequities shape everyday life. Rosem’s photography and writing have been featured in National Geographic, The Washington Post, NPR and CNN. She is a National Geographic Explorer and a recent International Women’s Media Foundation Fellow. In addition to her reporting, Rosem is a journalism safety trainer and adviser committed to fostering trauma-informed and identity-aware practices that support journalists in the field.

Brittany Moseley is the culture and arts reporter for Signal Akron, a nonprofit newsroom in Northeast Ohio that fuses community building with local news reporting. In her role, she covers the city’s thriving and diverse creative community – from dancers and painters to arts initiatives and cultural institutions. A lifelong Ohioan, she has spent her career covering the state and the Midwest region. Before joining the Signal Akron team in 2023, Moseley worked as a full-time freelance writer and contributed stories to Cleveland Magazine, the Columbus Dispatch, Next City and Poets & Writers, among others. Previously, she held associate editor roles at Columbus Monthly and Alternative Press. She is a proud graduate of Kent State University’s journalism program.

Tenzin Pema

Tenzin Pema is the Director of Radio Free Asia’s Tibetan Service, where she leads critical reporting on Tibet across multiple formats and platforms, including groundbreaking coverage of the Dege dam protests in 2024. She has two decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and newsroom leader in global media firms. She served as Editor of Strategic Initiatives at Economic Times and as Editorial Head at YourStory Media. She spent a decade with Reuters, where she was a senior editor and spearheaded the creation of a dual-language Middle East news team – a first for its Bengaluru newsroom. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism in India.

Nidhi Prakash

Nidhi Prakash is a journalist whose reporting is focused on accountability, politics and the environment. She previously worked as an energy and environment reporter for POLITICO and a White House reporter for BuzzFeed News. Prakash broke the story of the under-counted death toll in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, and closely covered the fallout of that and other natural disasters. Over the course of Prakash’s 15-year career, her work has taken her from local community board meetings in New York City to the Syrian refugee crisis in the Greek islands. She was on the campaign trail for the 2020 election, following Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Prakash grew up in India, New Zealand and Australia, before living in the UK, Chile and now the U.S. She speaks English, Spanish and Tamil.

Clavel Rangel Jimenez is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience covering labor unions, migration, human rights, climate, corruption and extractive industries in Venezuela and across the Americas. She co-founded the Venezuelan Amazon Journalists Network, an initiative that promotes investigative journalism, knowledge exchange and collaboration among reporters. Rangel began her career as a reporter and editor at Correo del Caroní, an award-winning regional newspaper in southern Venezuela, where she extensively covered the region. She later served as a correspondent at El Nacional and El Pitazo; as Editor-in-Chief of the Spanish-language newsletter Soy Arepita; and as a Senior Editor at El Tiempo Latino in Washington, D.C. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Chicago Health Magazine, and Armando.info. Originally from Venezuela, she now resides in the United States.

Irene Romulo is the co-founder of Cicero Independiente, an award-winning, bilingual newsroom that reports with and for the majority immigrant community of Cicero, Illinois. She leads the organization’s nationally recognized community engagement strategies and fundraising efforts. Romulo began her journalism career as a reporting fellow at City Bureau in Chicago in 2019. Later, as a 2021 Ida B. Wells Fellow at Type Investigations, she published a year-long investigation into the use of gang contracts to criminalize students. Her work helped equip parents and young people with “know your rights” information.

Simone Sebastian

Simone Sebastian is a newsroom leader with 25 years of experience covering many of the nation’s defining events. Most recently, she was the founding editorial director of Capital B, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to uncovering important stories about how Black people experience America today. There, she built three multiplatform newsrooms and led her teams to break national news stories and earn multiple awards. Prior to this role, she managed The Washington Post’s America Desk and co-led the newspaper’s “George Floyd’s America” project. She also directed the newspaper’s coverage of the 2019 mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso. A metro-Detroit native, Sebastian is a graduate of Columbia University and the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she chairs the alumni board.

Jędrzej Slodkowski

Jędrzej Słodkowski is a reporter, editor and current deputy head of the culture section of “Gazeta Wyborcza,” Poland’s largest newspaper. He started his professional journalism career as a music critic 20 years ago. He now specializes in interviews with the most interesting figures in Polish culture. Recently, Słodkowski has focused on migration and refugee issues, editing an annual special edition of “Gazeta Wyborcza” authored by refugees themselves. He has also covered topics such as child slavery in Ghana, Kyiv’s music scene during the war and Nepalese mercenaries hired by Russia to fight in Ukraine.

Sarah Souli

Sarah Souli has been living and reporting across the Mediterranean for more than a decade. Raised in the U.S. by a French mother and Tunisian father, her multicultural and multilingual background has deeply informed her perspective and work. She is most interested in how behemoth political structures intersect with the resilient and textured lived experiences of people. Her stories, including a multi-year investigation of a triple femicide on the Greek-Turkish border, have appeared in The Atavist, The Economist, POLITICO, The Guardian, Vice Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler and others. Prior to her work as an independent journalist, she was a staff writer for COLORS Magazine.

Nina Weingrill

Nina Weingrill is a civic media practitioner and journalist with more than 18 years of experience fostering community engagement in journalism. As co-founder and former director of Énois, one of Brazil’s first civic media organizations, she has influenced industry-wide practices that prioritize marginalized voices and local community building. She has collaborated on global initiatives like the Civic Media Census at News Futures, mapping practices that strengthen communities and expand access to information. Weingrill also coordinated the design of Brazil’s first journalism fund, as part of an international coalition. Currently, she researches how local information infrastructure can reduce inequality, particularly in crisis-impacted areas where journalism must be built from the ground up.