Meet Voices’ editors, fellows and alumni.
By cohort
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
CNN
Allison Cho is a business editor at CNN. She edits business, tech and media stories, and helps lead the business team’s evening coverage. Before this, she was a multiplatform editor at The Washington Post, where she edited news and helped produce the print newspaper. She’s currently based in New York but is originally from Chicago.
CNBC
Russell Leung is a digital rotational associate at CNBC. He currently works on the social media team but previously helped produce “Closing Bell: Overtime” and wrote for the consumer news section. He studied journalism and environmental sciences at Northwestern University and is a lifelong New Yorker.
Freelance Journalist
Mythili Sampathkumar is a freelance journalist based in New York. Her reporting work can be found in The New York Times, L.A. Times, Vox, Teen Vogue, NBC News, Fortune, Forbes, The New Republic, Daily Beast, and more. She was also a staff reporter for The Independent’s New York bureau and former president of SAJA. In recent years, she has written textbooks, edited a photojournalism coffee table book, and managed several newsletters including her own, called Export Quality. She’s also a collage artist in her spare time.
The Seattle Times
Fareeha Rehman is a content strategist, writer and editor with expertise in audience engagement and development, breaking news, and website/social media curation. As a journalist and storyteller, she has an eye for identifying digital trends and stories that resonate with people. Her original reporting has been published across outlets in top media markets such as D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Borderless Magazine
Katrina is a multimedia journalist passionate about audience engagement and social media video production. Her reporting focuses on immigrant communities in Chicago. She’s written features about community centers, immigrants’ histories and what brought them here, and award-winning investigations into Chicago’s migrant shelters.
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