is the senior director of journalism and civic information at Free Press, a nonpartisan organization created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media.

(they/them) is an associate professor in communication at the University of San Diego and a senior fellow at the Open Markets Institute. Their most recent book is News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism (Columbia, 2021).

is the Editor-in-Chief of Baltimore Beat, a digital and print-based news product based in Baltimore City.

is a co-founder of Mountain State Spotlight and a distinguished local reporting fellow with the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica. In 2018, he received a MacArthur Fellowship—the so-called “Genius Grant”—for “revealing the human and environmental toll of natural resource extraction in West Virginia and spurring greater accountability among public and private stakeholders.”

is the editor of Nieman Journalism Lab at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

is a researcher with the Revolving Door Project. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from McGill University and an MSc in International and Social Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

is author of The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights and an assistant professor of economics at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

is a documentary filmmaker and journalist.

is the program manager for the Race and Democracy program at the Roosevelt Institute.

is a Clinical Professor of Public Service at the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.