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REM O'DONNELLEY

Rem O'Donnelley is a freelance journalist and photographer in Northern California. He's covered issues and events in the San Francisco Bay Area for local outlets since 2013. He enjoys writing about the world of craft beer. Having had epilepsy since 2010, he uses his experience to educate others. He is also an avid amateur radio operator and weekends can be found contacting others in states and countries during radio contests.

MANUEL OCAÑO

Manuel Ocaño started his career in journalism four decades ago in Mexico City. He covered Central America during the 80s. He currently reports on the U.S.-Mexico border on immigration and human rights issues. He is a multimedia journalist and his work is often published in EFE, La Opinión, Excelsior, and Chula Vista Today.

ROMMEL H. OJEDA

Rommel H. Ojeda is a bilingual journalist and filmmaker based in NYC. He is the community correspondent for Documented. His work focuses on immigration and issues affecting Latinx communities in New York.

LAURA OLIVIERI ROBLES

Laura Olivieri Robles is an independent multimedia journalist. Olivieri was born in Puerto Rico, but lives in the diaspora. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, CNN en Español and the New Scientist magazine. Olivieri also works as a responder for the nonprofit Vita Activa.

SERGIO OLMOS

is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon. He covers conflict. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Reuters.

Lise Olsen

Lise Olsen is the senior editor for investigations at the Texas Observer and the author of Code of Silence: Sexual Misconduct by Federal Judges, the Secret System that Protects Them and the Women who Blew the Whistle (Beacon Press 9/2021) and of The Scientist and the Serial Killer (Random House: expected 1/2025). She has known Marcela Turati since the 1990s when she served as executive director of the nonprofit Investigative Reporters and Editors's Mexico project. @LiseDigger

Omar Ornelas

Omar Ornelas is a Mexican photojournalist based in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. For the last 20 years, he has been reporting on and photographing farmworker labor, education, health and housing issues in California, Texas and Arizona, as well as border security and Mexican and Central American migratory flows at the U.S.-Mexico border, for the USA TODAY Network.

Jennifer A. Ortiz

Jennifer A. Ortiz is a Cuban-American photographer and graphic artist born and raised in South Florida. Her work explores environments, trauma, healing, identity, histories and memory.

MANUEL ORTIZ ESCÁMEZ

Manuel Ortiz Escámez is a national award-winning (US) social documentary photographer and journalist based in Redwood City, California. He was born in Mexico City where he received a BA in sociology and an MA in visual arts, specializing in documentary film. He has traveled through over 20 countries for his photographic, and multimedia projects, most of them about immigration, social justice, and the environment. He has long taught Visual Sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he was the director and founder of the Multimedia Laboratory for Social Research for more than seven years. Manuel is the director and founder of Peninsula 360 Press, a digital and print media outlet in Redwood City, California. He also has collaborated as an independent reporter and photojournalist for media outlets such as El Mensajero (San Francisco, CA), Alianza News (San Jose, CA.), Ethnic Media Services (San Francisco, CA), Proceso (Mexico), Sin Embargo (Mexico), Univisión (USA), The Nation (USA), and Gran Angular Agency (France)."

DR. LUISA ORTIZ PÉREZ

Dr. Luisa Ortiz Pérez is the Executive Director of Vita-Activa.org, a helpline to support journalists, activists and defenders of human, environmental and women's rights and who face gender-based violence online. As a journalist, she has contributed to NPR, WNYC, Yahoo! Hispanic Americas, Televisa Interactive Media and the BBC. He has recently led teams that provide psychological first aid for journalists and media professionals covering natural disasters and human tragedies.

Mónica Ortiz Uribe

Mónica Ortiz Uribe was a senior staff reporter for the El Paso Times in Texas from December 2020 to August 2022. She now lives in and works independently from rural New Mexico. She is the co-host of the podcast Forgotten: The Women of Juárez and the host of palabra’s podcast Así Fue.

NICK OZA

joined the Arizona Republic as a staff photographer in 2006. He specializes in covering social issues, among them immigration, child welfare, gangs, and mental health. Oza was part of the Knight-Ridder team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and 2017 The Wall Project for USA TODAY. (Photo by Stacey Champion.)