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BARBARA KASTELEIN

Barbara Kastelein is an author and independent journalist. She worked in Mexico City for the Toronto Star, The Mexico City Times, the BBC and South America’s TV Globo, and covered the environment in Mexico for the Bureau of National Affairs in Washington. Her books include “Mexico Chic” and the forthcoming “Heroes of the Pacific,” about Acapulco’s iconic cliff-diving community.

TASMIHA KHAN

Tasmiha Khan is an independent journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Vox, among other outlets. Currently, Tasmiha covers a wide range of topics related to health, race, politics, culture, and religion. This past year, Khan was named a Fellow for Knight Science Journalism at MIT, a IFYC/RNS Religion Journalism Fellow, a Higher Education Media Fellow at the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and Woodrow Wilson Higher Education Media Fellow. She was also a recipient of the National Geographic Society’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists. Khan was awarded a grant by the International Center for Journalists to assist with brand-building and audience engagement and is a recipient of the Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grant from The National Press Foundation and the National Press Club Journalism Institute.

MEGAN KIMBLE

Megan Kimble is the executive editor of the Texas Observer.

ANGELA KOCHERGA

Angela Kocherga is an award-winning multimedia journalist who has dedicated her career to reporting about the Southwest border and Mexico. In 2019 she earned a Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for courageous reporting in Latin America. She served as Mexico bureau chief and border correspondent for a group of U.S. television stations. Kocherga currently is news director for public radio station KTEP in El Paso, and multimedia editor for El Paso Matters. She lives on the southwest edge of Texas and calls the border home.

CLAUDIA KOLKER

Claudia Kolker is a writer who has lived and worked in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. She often writes about innovators, entrepreneurs, and immigrants. Her book, “The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn From Newcomers to America About Health, Happiness and Hope” was an O Magazine selection. She lives in Houston with her family.

JESSICA KUTZ

Jessica Kutz is a national reporter covering gender and climate change at The 19th, a nonprofit news organization that reports at the intersection of gender, politics and policy. She previously worked as an editor and reporter at High Country News, a regional nonprofit that covers the Western United States. Her work has appeared in many outlets including The Guardian, Slate, Mother Jones, PBS NewsHour and The Atlantic. She is based in Tucson, Arizona.

MEERA KYMAL

Meera Kymal is a Founder/Producer at DesiCollective Media and the Contributing Editor at the magazine India Currents. She writes about issues that impact minority communities in the South Asian diaspora through the lens of social justice, politics, and the arts. Meera is a 2021 and 2022 grantee from the USC Center for Health Journalism, reporting on domestic violence in the South Asian community in the ‘Desi Dost’ project. It recently won first place California Journalism Award for In-Depth Reporting and Open In-Depth Reporting from the California News Publishers Association. In 2022, Meera won a grant to report on aging as part of the first Altavoz Lab cohort. She has received Journalistic Excellence awards from the San Francisco Press Club (2021 & 2020) and from CNPA (2021).