Nicky Cao is Vietnamese, queer and trans. She calls it being a minority within a minority at a time when her identity is ...

Teena Apeles is the national engagement editor at the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. A native Angeleno, prior to joining the ...

Allie Hostler works as a reporter at a weekly publication, the Two Rivers Tribune. The small paper is based in Hoopa—an Indian reservation in the far reaches of Northern California—but serves a ...

Natalie Eilbert is the mental health reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She began her career as a local government watchdog reporter with Green Bay Press-Gazette, where she won first prize ...

I cover public health, ethnic health and health disparities in Orange County, Calif. at VoiceofOC.org, which is a nonprofit investigative news website. I also teach in the Literary Journalism program ...

Journalism with impact is central to the Center’s fellowships, methods and mission. What does that mean? Go deeper in these stories below to see how our Fellows are putting the skills, insights and ...

Nada Hassanein is a health care reporter for Stateline with a focus on inequities. Previously, she was a USA TODAY reporter focusing on environmental and health inequities. Previously, she was a ...

Jason deBruyn has been the WUNC health reporter since 2020, and has been in the WUNC newsroom since 2016. In his role covering health, deBruyn focuses not only on the COVID-19 pandemic, but also on ...

A rare native Angeleno reporting on mental health for the Los Angeles Times. LA County leaders identified mobile teams as key to a new mental health hotline. But a reporter's skepticism proved ...

Stephanie Kuzydym is a sports enterprise and investigative reporter for the Louisville Courier Journal, which is part of the USA TODAY Network. For the last decade, Kuzydym’s reporting largely focused ...

Cynthia Dizikes is an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Before joining the Chronicle in 2016, Dizikes worked in Chicago where she focused on government agencies and the courts.

Laura N. Pérez Sánchez is an independent investigative reporter and editor based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Laura writes about corruption and its impact on the population, post-disaster recovery ...