Kathleen McGrory was a reporter on ProPublica’s national staff. She and colleague Neil Bedi won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for an investigation that found a Florida sheriff’s office had harassed residents and profiled schoolchildren. The series prompted two federal reviews of the agency and the formation of...

Joan Donovan, PhD, is an assistant professor of journalism and emerging media studies at Boston University. Dr. Donovan leads the field in examining internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns. She is the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute, a nonprofit based in Boston that...

Steve Corbin is emeritus professor of marketing at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, where he headed the marketing department. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa, a master’s degree from Colorado State University and a doctorate from Virginia Tech. Corbin has served on the...

Brett Murphy is a reporter on ProPublica’s national desk. His work uncovering a new junk science in the justice system known as 911 call analysis won a George Polk Award, among other honors. Murphy joined the newsroom in May 2022, after working as an investigative reporter at USA Today, where...

Alander Rocha is a journalist based in Montgomery, and he reports on government, policy and healthcare. He previously worked for the Red & Black, Georgia's student newspaper, and Kaiser Health News, where he covered community health workers' successful efforts to vaccinate refugees in an Atlanta suburb. He is a Tulane...

Christian Schwägerl is a Berlin-based journalist who writes for GEO magazine, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine, and other media outlets. He is co-founder of RiffReporter, a freelance cooperative, and author of The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How it Shapes Our Planet.

Tracy Connor is the editor in chief of The Daily Beast. She previously was the executive editor. Prior to joining the Beast, she worked for the NBC News Investigations Unit, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, United Press International and a chain of weekly newspapers in Brooklyn,...

I’m a London-based writer and journalist working on news and features. I’ve contributed to The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, WIRED, VICE, Positive News, The Telegraph, Fabulous magazine, The Independent and i Paper, among others. I also worked as a staff sub-editor at Newsweek for four years. In 2020 I...

Kendra Bozarth (she/her) is an editor, writer and organizer who specializes in economic policy and narrative change.

Audrey is an independent writer and researcher based in the greater Chicago area with advanced degrees in sociology and law from Northwestern University. She specializes in sustainability in the built environment, culture and arts, policy, and related topics. Her work has been featured in Wallpaper magazine, the Chicago Reader, Chicago...