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MARÍA LUISA IMBACHÍ

María Luisa Imbachí is a senior at Hunter College in Manhattan. She won the 2019 James Aronson Undergraduate Award for Social Justice. Born in Colombia and raised in East-Elmhurst, Queens, Imbachi was a staff writer for The Athenian, and a reporter and presenter for the biweekly journalism newscast Hunter News Now. As a “dreamer” and beneficiary of a TheDream.Us scholarship, Imbachí wrote of the problems that face undocumented students: “I learned that I could be a voice for the students who are afraid of expressing themselves as migrants.”

CATALINA JARAMILLO

Catalina Jaramillo is a reporter with WHYY. She tells stories on how climate change, pollution, and policies regulating air, water, land, energy, food and waste affect residents in their everyday lives.

Olga L. Jaramillo

Olga L. Jaramillo, born in Colombia, is an independent visual storyteller based in the Washington D.C., metropolitan area. With a background in economics, she transitioned into photography, bringing her social awareness and experience in Latin American socioeconomic development into her visual work.
Through photography, short films, and text, she explores the intricate relationships between identity, culture, and migration. Olga’s most recent work focuses on the intergenerational impact of migration on the families of migrant mothers from Central America. 
Her multimedia documentary project "Dos Mundos," begun in 2019, was awarded the Women Photojournalists of Washington's inaugural Butterfly Grant in 2024.

JUDE JOFFE-BLOCK

Jude Joffe-Block is an audio producer and journalist in Phoenix, Arizona. She frequently reports on immigration and her work has appeared in The Guardian, NPR, The World and The Associated Press.

LINDA JUE

Linda Jue is a contributing editor and writer for palabra. She is also editor-at-large for the investigative site 100Reporters and a reporting and writing coach for the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Among the many hats Linda has worn, she was an associate at the Center for Investigative Reporting, a magazine editor and associate producer at KQED-TV/San Francisco Focus magazine, and Northern California correspondent for C-SPAN. Her work has appeared in San Francisco Focus, KQED-TV, GEO, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, PBS Frontline and other outlets.