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2017 Cohort: Philadelpha 2018 Cohort: Houston 2019 Cohort: Atlanta 2021 Cohort: Virtual 2022 Cohort: Los Angeles 2023 Cohort: Washington, D.C. 2024 Cohort: Austin 2025 Cohort: Seattle
Voice of San Diego
Maya is a reporter at Voice of San Diego. She currently covers the U.S.-Mexico border and immigration issues, and previously wrote about education, housing and land use issues in San Diego County. Maya was raised in New York and studied history at the University of Texas in Austin. She has a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and was a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia’s Journalism School. Maya also served in the Peace Corps in Panama, where she trained Panamanian teachers for nearly three years.
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Yale University
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Clarkson University
Los Angeles Pierce College
Harvard University
George Washington University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Maryland
Associated Press
Mallika Sen is an editor at The Associated Press, focusing on U.S. northeast news and occasionally picking up a pen herself. Originally from Los Angeles, she’s made it a point to live in cities with robust public transportation and managed to survive two years working for the AP in Atlanta without a car. She’s passionate about obituaries, inclusion and enforcing Slack camaraderie. She graduated from Georgetown in 2016, and previously interned for BBC News and a media consultancy firm in Washington.
ProPublica
Irena Hwang (she/they) is a data reporter at ProPublica, based in Atlanta, GA. Previously, she worked at National Public Radio, The Associated Press and The Dallas Morning News. She has a master’s in journalism and doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
NPR
Naina Rao is a freelance multimedia journalist and most recently served as the news anchor and reporter for Wyoming’s NPR member station, in Laramie, WY. Before hosting Morning Edition, Naina was a producer at WAMU’s “1A” and NPR’s Story Lab and reported on race, identity, and environment in Michigan. Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, and educated in the U.S., Naina has lived in Singapore and India in between and speaks Bahasa Indonesia and Melayu fluently
Los Angeles Times
Rong-Gong Lin II is a metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times based in the San Francisco Bay Area and covers the COVID-19 pandemic and earthquake safety issues. He has also written about municipal corruption and local government. He was a member of the reporting team covering the San Bernardino shootings that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news. He is graduate of UC Berkeley.
Bloomberg News
America’s Test Kitchen
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Los Angeles Times
NET-Nebraska’s NPR
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WWNO, Gulf States Newsroom
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