Wesley Lowery

Wesley Lowery is an accomplished American journalist and author who has worked for leading news organizations such as CBS News and The Washington Post. He was a lead reporter on the Post's "Fatal Force" project, which won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016, and is the author of the book "They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement." Lowery is also a Fellow at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, where he continues to report and comment on policing and criminal justice reform issues. Known for his powerful coverage of the 2014 Ferguson protests, he is also a CNN political contributor and correspondent for 60 in 6, a short-form spinoff of 60 Minutes.

Alexis Okeowo

Alexis Okeowo is a celebrated journalist and author who is a staff writer at The New Yorker, known for their coverage of conflict, human rights, and culture across Africa, Mexico, and the American South. Their feature “Tainted Earth” won the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Philip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award in 2022, and their book "A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa" received the 2018 PEN Open Book Award. Okeowo has previously contributed to the Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Financial Times.

Lauren Bohn

Lauren is an accomplished journalist and entrepreneur with more than a decade of experience. She has served as the Director of Communications at Media Impact Funders, Editorial Director of YES! Media, and the GroundTruth Project's inaugural international correspondent. She was based in the Middle East for almost a decade and is one of the first women columnists at Foreign Policy magazine. She also co-founded Foreign Policy Interrupted, an initiative dedicated to amplifying women-identifying voices in international affairs. In addition to her journalistic pursuits, Lauren is a social entrepreneur; she is the co-founder of SchoolCycle, a United Nations Foundation campaign that provides bicycles for adolescent girls to get to school in Malawi and Guatemala.

Victoria Law

Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and author who specializes in writing about the intersections of mass incarceration, gender, and resistance. She has written multiple books on the subject, including "Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women" and "Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reform." With over 10 years of experience in editing, Victoria has also co-edited a book, "Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind" and has helped other authors to shape and publish their works. For 17 years she also edited a magazine "Tenacious: Art and Writings by Women in Prison" and had collaborated with incarcerated women to develop their writings for publication.

Gabe Schneider

Gabe Schneider is a journalist and editor based in Los Angeles. He currently works as the Story Partnerships and Collaborations Manager at Grist. He has previously worked as Assistant Editor at CalMatters and as Assistant Managing Editor at Votebeat, a non-profit newsroom covering local election administration and voting in eight states. His work has been featured in outlets such as The Associated Press, MinnPost, The Texas Tribune, Los Angeles Magazine, and The Columbia Journalism Review. In addition, he is a co-founder of The Objective, a media publication focused on under-reported communities and issues in the United States. Growing up in Los Angeles, Gabe attended UC San Diego where he co-founded The Triton, an independent, student-run newspaper.