People

Jessica hilo

Editor

Jessica Hilo is a seasoned editorial leader with over 15 years of experience in digital production, social media marketing, product management, audience analytics, and content strategy. She has worked for USA Today, Samsung News, MSNBC, NBC News, CBS, Yahoo!, and other media outlets. She has a Master of Arts degree in specialized journalism from the University of Southern California and holds undergraduate degrees in political science, literature, and music from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

allison cho

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.

russell leung

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.

Andrew Nguyen

Boston Globe

Andrew Nguyen is a journalist and developer at the Boston Globe, where he builds news apps and interactive graphics. He uses his expertise in data, design and code to make charts, maps and other special presentations to help readers better understand and engage with the news. He has more than a decade of experience working in newsrooms in Canada and the United States as a reporter, developer, web editor and fact checker. Most recently, he was part of the team that produced the Boston Globe’s Spotlight report on Massachusetts’ housing crisis “Beyond the Gilded Gate.”

Mythili Sampathkumar

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.

Aditya Thiyag

University of Southern California

Amrutha Kosuru

New York University

Ava Hu

University of California, Berkeley

Caitlyn Daproza

Rochester Institute of Technology

Diamy Wang

University of Pennsylvania

Kabir Burman

Muhlenberg College

Kat Tran

University of Florida

Madison Yue

Washington University in St. Louis

Malcolm Caminero

University of Southern California

Riya Sharma

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Sana Dadani

Stanford University

William Tong

Northwestern University