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Lauren Wagner

Lauren Wagner is an education journalist with the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska. She also freelances for various national education outlets.

Annie Warren

Annie Warren serves as the director of content at Northwest Public Broadcasting. She has a degree in photojournalism from The University of Montana. Born and raised in the Columbia Basin, she is a longtime resident of Pasco, Washington.

Mia (미아) Warren

Mia (미아) Warren (she/her) is an award-winning audio producer living in Brooklyn, NY. With more than a decade of experience, her work has been featured on Latino USA, PRI’s The World, and in Yes! Magazine. Mia is the managing director of Feet in 2 Worlds (Fi2W), a news outlet and journalism training organization that offers fellowships and workshops to help immigrant journalists reach new audiences, improve their skills and advance their careers. Prior to Fi2W, Mia was a senior producer at Sony Podcasts, where she developed several original narrative podcast series. Mia was the co-creator and executive producer of Feeling My Flo, a podcast for teens all about menstruation. As a producer at StoryCorps from 2015-2019, she created segments for their weekly broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition, contributed to their 2019 Peabody-nominated podcast season, and collaborated on Un(re)solved, StoryCorps' Emmy Award-winning civil rights series with Frontline.

Rob Waters

Rob Waters, the founding editor of MindSite News, is an award-winning health and mental health journalist. He was a contributing writer to Health Affairs and has worked as a staff reporter or editor at Bloomberg News, Time Inc. Health and Psychotherapy Networker. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Kaiser Health News, STAT, the Atlantic.com, Mother Jones and many other outlets. He was a 2005 fellow with the Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism. His most recent awards, in 2021, come from the Association of Health Care Journalists, the National Institute for Health Care Management, and the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California branch, for his mental health coverage. He is based in Oakland and Berkeley, California. He can be reached at info@mindsitenews.org.

JON WILLIAMS

For four decades Jon Williams has left graphite bits, paint splotches, fix stains and pixel dust in several newsrooms throughout the country. He has served as an artist, photographer, art director, news designer and copy editor for publications in California, New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Washington state. He currently lives in the Puget Sound region of Washington.

SALGU WISSMATH

Salgu Wissmath is a nonbinary photographer based in Sacramento. Their personal work explores the intersections of mental health, queer identity, and faith from a conceptual documentary approach. Salgu recently completed a Master of Photography degree at Ohio University and is currently freelancing for editorial publications and nonprofits in Northern California.

JOE YERARDI

Joe Yerardi is a data reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, reporting on a broad range of topics. In this role, he combines traditional reporting techniques with data analysis, visualization and programming to tell investigative stories.

DAISY YUHAS

Daisy Yuhas is a science journalist and editor based in Austin, Texas. She is an editor for Scientific American’s Mind Matters column, which explores insights from brain and behavioral science. Previously, she has served as features editor for SAPIENS magazine, a columnist for The Hechinger Report, and an associate editor at Scientific American, where she edited stories for Scientific American MIND. Daisy has written for multiple publications, including The New York Times for Kids, Audubon magazine, NBC News, and Newsweek.

Franco Zacha

Franco Zacha is an illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. To him, illustration is the language of the heart. By combining the world he observes with carefully crafted concepts, Franco captures emotions through the lens of solemnity and beauty. Today, his work is frequently published in the pages of The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

GRISELDA ZETINO

Griselda Zetino has a passion for storytelling. She’s currently a radio news reporter for KTAR News in Phoenix, through which she has won several awards, including an Edward R. Murrow Award for Hard News in 2022 and the Arizona Broadcasters Association’s Newcomer Award in 2019. Prior to that, she worked as a freelance journalist for NBC Latino, The Guardian, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and other news outlets. She enjoys covering politics, education and immigration. The Mexico native earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University in May 2011, and she recently served as a board member for the Arizona Latino Media Association.