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Kristin Gilger is director of the National Center on Disability and Journalism and Reynolds Professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. She has served as interim dean, associate dean and assistant dean of the school. Previously, she was an editor at The Arizona Republic and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. She is co-author of “There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned About What it Takes to Lead.”

On Twitter: @kristingilger

Jennifer LaFleur is a senior editor at The Center for Public Integrity and teaches at American University. She joined CPI from The Investigative Reporting Workshop. She previously was a senior editor at Reveal/CIR, data editor at ProPublica, The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers. She is a former IRE training director and has won awards for her coverage of disability, legal and open government issues.

On Twitter: @j_la28

I’m a reporter on the investigative team at BuzzFeed News. Most recently, I investigated what happened after the private equity giant KKR bought up a company operating hundreds of group homes that promised to help people with disabilities “live their best lives.” Instead, conditions grew so dire that staff quit in droves, a state prohibited the company from accepting new residents, and some of the most vulnerable people in its care suffered and died.

On Twitter: @KendallTTaggart

Mark Greenblatt is senior national investigative correspondent for Scripps Washington Bureau, reporting for Newsy, Scripps local stations and podcasts. Mark is the lead reporter for "Verified: The Next Threat," an investigative podcast on globally linked white supremacy. He is a three-time Peabody winner and has earned the IRE Medal, duPont, Emmy, Murrow, Sigma Delta Chi and Livingston Award and has twice been a finalist for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize. He also gardens and brews his own beer.

On Twitter: @greenblattmark

3X Peabody award-winning media executive. Currently Executive Producer Podcasting Scripps Washington Bureau. Creator of Verified, Investigative podcast series. Co-founder of Reveal, the first investigative radio show and podcast in the US. Former head of NPR Investigations and CBC Investigations. Frequent international speaker and trainer on investigative storytelling and innovation

On Twitter: @verpod

Ellen Weiss is Washington Bureau Chief and Vice President of the E.W. Scripps Company and leads the production of original investigative and documentary stories and series in video and audio. Previously, she was Executive Editor at the Center for Public Integrity and Senior Vice President of News at NPR. Weiss is a trustee of the Scripps Howard Foundation and a volunteer with the National Park Service. She is a graduate of Smith College.

On Twitter: @Ellen_weiss

Laura Castañeda, Ed.D., is a Professor of Professional Practice at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the school’s Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access. She was worked for the Associated Press, The Dallas Morning News and The San Francisco Chronicle. She earned two B.A.s from USC, her M.A. from Columbia, where she also was a Knight-Bagheot Fellow, and her doctorate from USC.

On Twitter: @lauracastaneda

James V. Grimaldi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in Washington. In 2021-22, his work with two WSJ colleagues found that 152 federal judges violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by overseeing 1,076 court cases involving companies in which they or their family owned stock. In response, the U.S. Congress passed a new ethics law that requires judges to post their financial disclosure reports on an online database.

On Twitter: @jamesvgrimaldi

Founding director of the Arnolt Center for investigative journalism at Indiana University. Formerly longtime senior investigative producer at CNN in Atlanta and a similar role at CBS NEWS in DC. Prior to television producing, had a long career in newspapers. Multiple awards including IRE, national Emmy, Columbia DuPont, Peabodys, ,Murrows. Specializing in counter terrorism and homeland security ; congressional spending and breaking new events

Myriam Masihy is a consumer investigative reporter with Telemundo 51 and NBC6 South Florida. She has dedicated the last 20-plus years addressing viewers’ concerns and working to solve problems in the community. She currently works as part of the NBC6 Investigators, NBC6 Responds, Telemundo 51 Responde and Telemundo 51 Investiga teams. Her work has been recognized with 19 Emmy Awards.

On Twitter: @MyriamT51

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Kyle grew up in the Maryland suburbs outside of Washington, D.C. Prior to joining NBC Connecticut, Kyle has reported along the East Coast at WMDT in Maryland, WMTW in Maine, and WJCL in Georgia. Before her career in journalism, Kyle spent eight years working in public relations. In her free time, she enjoys trivia nights, craft breweries, trying out local restaurants and visiting beaches across Connecticut.

On Twitter: @KyleJonesNBC

Ted recently celebrated 20 years as a reporter at KTRK. He prefers you refer to that as well-aged instead of old. Ted is ABC13's Investigative Reporter splitting time between investigating local government for 13 Investigates and consumer troubleshooting for the stations' Turn to Ted segments.

On Twitter: @tedabc13

Sam Levine is a senior reporter at the Guardian who covers voting rights across the US

On Twitter: @srl

Linda So is an award-winning multimedia investigative journalist for Reuters based in Washington, D.C. Her work exposing threats against election workers spurred federal investigations and multiple legislative reforms. Her reporting has won a trove of national honors, including the George Polk, RFK and Sigma Delta Chi awards. Before joining Reuters in 2013, she had an extensive career as a broadcast journalist, reporting and anchoring for various U.S. network affiliates.

On Twitter: @lindasoreports

Jason Szep is international political investigations editor at Reuters and has reported from across Asia and North America on a wide range of subjects. Honors for his work include a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2014, a Polk, three Awards for editorial excellence by the Society of Publishers in Asia, an Osborn Elliott Prize, two Sigma Delta Chi award and the Edgar A. Poe Award from the White House Correspondents’ Association.

On Twitter: @jasonszep

Tom Huang is assistant managing editor for journalism initiatives at The Dallas Morning News, where he edits the Sunday front page, directs newsroom talent development and leads The News’ community-funded journalism initiative, which seeks philanthropic funding to support public service journalism. As an adjunct faculty member of The Poynter Institute, he organizes seminars for professional journalists on writing, reporting and editing.

On Twitter: @tomthuang

Terry Greene Sterling is a journalist, author and teacher. Her narrative writing focuses on the people, places and politics of the American southwest. She is an editor at large for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and a faculty affiliate at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Reach her at terrygreenesterling.com or @tgsterling.

On Twitter: @tgsterling

Rebecca Woolington is the investigative editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Her work there has chronicled discrepancies in the state’s counting of coronavirus deaths and dangerous working conditions inside a Tampa lead factory. The latter earned her and her reporting partners, Corey G. Johnson and Eli Murray, the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting and several other national honors. She was previously an investigative and criminal justice reporter at The Oregonian.

On Twitter: @rwoolington

James V. Grimaldi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in Washington. In 2021-22, his work with two WSJ colleagues found that 152 federal judges violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by overseeing 1,076 court cases involving companies in which they or their family owned stock. In response, the U.S. Congress passed a new ethics law that requires judges to post their financial disclosure reports on an online database.

On Twitter: @jamesvgrimaldi

Lise Olsen is the author of CODE OF SILENCE, which won the IRE Book award in 2022 and examines major flaws in the federal judicial misconduct system. Her book reveals how a federal judge got away with sexually assaulting his own employees for years before finally being prosecuted and impeached. Now senior editor and reporter at the Texas Observer, Olsen is a former IRE board member whose work has also appeared in documentaries on CNN and A & E and in other publications.

On Twitter: @lisedigger

Andrew Pantazi is the founder and editor of The Tributary, a nonprofit investigative newsroom in Jacksonville, Fla. He was previously an enterprise reporter at The Florida Times-Union for eight years.

On Twitter: @APantazi

Michael is the research director at Issue One, a bipartisan political reform group based in DC. He previously worked as a reporter for more than 10 years at the Center for Public Integrity, OpenSecrets.org, Mother Jones and other outlets. Since September 2020, he has resided in Colorado and loves hiking in the mountains. Michael is happy to talk with reporters, on the record or on background, especially about campaign finance and election issues.

On Twitter: @mjbeckel

Robert Maguire is the Research Director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. He has been tracking dark money groups for a decade, since founding the Political Nonprofit Tracking Project at OpenSecrets.org, where he produced award-winning reporting on dark money networks.

On Twitter: @RobertMaguire_

Anna Massoglia is OpenSecrets’ Editorial and Investigations Manager. Her research also includes "dark money," political ads and foreign influence. She holds degrees in political science and psychology from North Carolina State University and a J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia School of Law. Anna previously worked as a research analyst, writer and editor at Bloomberg BNA.

On Twitter: @annalecta

Susan Greene reported in California, Nevada and D.C. before her 13 years as a reporter and columnist at The Denver Post. She went on run the nonprofit Colorado Independent before its 2020 merger with COLab. “Trashing the Truth,” a series she reported with Miles Moffeit, was a finalist for the Pulitzer in investigative journalism. She coaches while co-reporting with journalists and currently is leading a multi-outlet investigation of Colorado’s mental health care system.

On Twitter: @greeneindenver

Mary Hudetz is a reporter for ProPublica's Southwest unit. Before joining ProPublica, she worked for The Seattle Times and Associated Press. A member of the Crow Tribe in Montana, she is a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. She is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

On Twitter: @marymhudetz

Dan Schwartz is an independent journalist who writes about the environment and outdoors for national publications such as The Atlantic and Outside Magazine. He is also a producer on an investigative podcast for iHeartRadio that'll be out this fall.

Steve Zansberg is a media and First Amendment lawyer in Denver, Colorado. For 26 years, Steve has represented reporters, editors, publishers and broadcasters in defending lawsuits, pre-publication review, newsroom counseling, fighting subpoenas and seeking access to government proceedings and records. Steve is president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.

On Twitter: @DenverSteve

Ryan Martin is an investigative reporter at The Indianapolis Star, where he writes about the criminal justice system and local government. He is a 2021 IRE Award winner for an investigation into Indiana's jail deaths crisis. He also was part of a team of journalists from four newsrooms that examined K-9 units and the damage inflicted by police dogs. The team won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

On Twitter: @ryanmartin

Cheryl Phillips teaches at Stanford and is founder of Big Local News. Previously, Phillips worked at The Seattle Times for 12 years. She has twice worked on breaking news which received Pulitzer Prizes and has twice been on teams that were Pulitzer finalists. Phillips has worked in journalism so long that she used to file stories with a TRS-80. She served for 10 years on the IRE board and is a former board president.

On Twitter: @cephillips

Matt Drange is a journalist at Business Insider. He's previously reported for Protocol, The Information, Forbes magazine and The Center for Investigative Reporting. Matt joined IRE in 2010 as part of the inaugural Campus Coverage Project and is a proud Humboldt State University alum. He teaches journalists how to get the most out of public records. Matt’s most recent investigation uncovered decades of sexual abuse at the hands of his own high school journalism teacher.

On Twitter: @mattdrange

Leslie Eaton is a senior editor for investigations at The Marshall Project. She was previously investigative editor of The Dallas Morning News, Texas bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and a reporter at The New York Times. Projects she edited have won awards including the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism.

On Twitter: @lesliepeaton

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Sewell Chan joined The Texas Tribune as editor in chief in October 2021. Previously he was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. From 2004 to 2018, he was a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor at The New York Times. He began his career in 2000 at The Washington Post.

On Twitter: @sewellchan

Amy Pyle is national investigations editor at USA TODAY. This year, she oversaw investigations into why adoptions fail and which nursing home chain had the highest COVID death rate. Previously, Amy was editor in chief at The Center for Investigative Reporting, helping launch Reveal and establishing a fellowship for investigative journalists of color. Previously, she was AME/investigations at The Sacramento Bee and an ACE and reporter at the Los Angeles Times.

On Twitter: @amy_pyle

Jose A. Del Real is a reporter for The Washington Post. He travels the country to write in-depth feature stories about American life and politics.

On Twitter: @jdelreal

Morgan Loew is an investigative reporter in Phoenix, Arizona. He teaches media law at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is the president of the Arizona First Amendment Coalition and has won multiple awards for his reporting on the US-Mexico border, politics and crime. Morgan also works as a consultant for the CBS News program 48 Hours.

On Twitter: @morganloewcbs5

Nicole just started her new gig as Executive Producer of Content Development at CBS News & Stations. She is leading a team of investigative journalists who will tell important national stories, along with reporters from CBS affiliates across the country. Nicole lives in Denver with her husband and cute dogs. Nicole's best productions to date are her two incredible daughters -- who are out making the world a better place to be.

On Twitter: @nicolevap

When CNBC Senior Investigative Producer Scott Zamost speaks at conferences around the world, he often finishes with words of encouragement: If you can't get in the front, go around the side. If that doesn't work, try the back. You will eventually find your way and get the story. Scott, who has won more than 75 reporting awards, joined CNBC in 2017 after nine years at CNN and previously CBS News, WTVJ and WPLG.

On Twitter: @scottzamost

Bethany Barnes is the deputy investigative editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Barnes is also one of four journalists who put together Local Matters, a weekly newsletter of the nation’s best local investigative reporting. Barnes previously worked at The Oregonian, where her coverage of Portland Public Schools prompted the Education Writers Association to name her the nation’s best education beat reporter in 2018. Before that, she was a reporter in Las Vegas.

On Twitter: @betsbarnes

Lulu Ramadan is an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times and a distinguished fellow at ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. She co-curates the weekly newsletter Local Matters, which spotlights excellent investigative stories by local reporters.

On Twitter: @luluramadan

Marissa Evans is a health reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2021, she worked for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where she covered housing, Black community trauma after George Floyd’s death, how communities of color have been affected by COVID-19 and how Minnesota allows private hospitals to seize tax refunds from consumers with unpaid medical bills. She previously reported for the Texas Tribune, CQ Roll Call and Kaiser Health News.

On Twitter: @marissaaevans

Naseem Miller is a senior health editor at The Journalist's Resource. Previously, she was a health reporter in local newspapers and national medical publications for nearly two decades. She covered the Pulse nightclub mass shooting at the Orlando Sentinel and later helped start the Journalists Covering Trauma Facebook group as a gathering space for reporters who cover tragic events.

On Twitter: @NaseemMiller

Elana Newman, McFarlin Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa and research director at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, is a journalist ally and PTSD/traumatic stress expert. Her research examines journalists’ occupational health. She provides training about trauma science, interviewing survivors, self-care, resilience, interpersonal violence, disaster mental health, occupational health, online harassment and trauma-related newsroom practices.

On Twitter: @elananewman DartCenter

Mark Greenblatt is senior national investigative correspondent for Scripps Washington Bureau, reporting for Newsy, Scripps local stations and podcasts. Mark is the lead reporter for "Verified: The Next Threat," an investigative podcast on globally linked white supremacy. He is a three-time Peabody winner and has earned the IRE Medal, duPont, Emmy, Murrow, Sigma Delta Chi and Livingston Award and has twice been a finalist for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize. He also gardens and brews his own beer.

On Twitter: @greenblattmark

Adrienne Mayfield is the executive producer of investigations and special projects at WAVY-TV 10. She leads an investigative team of five, including two reporters, a photographer, and an associate producer. Adrienne is an Emmy-nominated broadcast journalist, and her team won a 2022 AP award for best documentary for WAVY-TV's investigative docuseries, "The Patients v. Perwaiz."

On Twitter: @Adrienne_WAVY

Cho Park is an investigative producer at ABC News who specializes in long form reports. Park has covered everything from mass shootings to racial inequalities, including long term coverage of 'race-norming' in the NFL concussion settlement which the NFL pledged to stop last year. One of Park's favorite projects that she lead produced on was an hour documentary for Hulu called The Informant with George Stephanopoulos.

On Twitter: @clpark722

Bethany Barnes is the deputy investigative editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Barnes is also one of four journalists who put together Local Matters, a weekly newsletter of the nation’s best local investigative reporting. Barnes previously worked at The Oregonian, where her coverage of Portland Public Schools prompted the Education Writers Association to name her the nation’s best education beat reporter in 2018. Before that, she was a reporter in Las Vegas.

On Twitter: @betsbarnes

Corey G. Johnson had been an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times. Before that, his expose of illegal sterilization surgeries in California women’s prisons led to sweeping reforms, including a statewide ban and a groundbreaking reparations program. In 2011, his work uncovered deficient earthquake protections in thousands of public schools. The series was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the IRE Gold Medal among other honors.

On Twitter: @CoreyGJohnson

Eli Murray is an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times. He's a self-taught programmer who uses code to create graphics and crunch numbers on local and national investigations.

On Twitter: @eli_mur

Rebecca Woolington is the investigative editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Her work there has chronicled discrepancies in the state’s counting of coronavirus deaths and dangerous working conditions inside a Tampa lead factory. The latter earned her and her reporting partners, Corey G. Johnson and Eli Murray, the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting and several other national honors. She was previously an investigative and criminal justice reporter at The Oregonian.

On Twitter: @rwoolington

Bente is an award-winning journalist for Colorado Public Radio who has spent more than a decade reporting on the Colorado state capitol. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later. She co-hosts CPR's politics podcast Purplish. She enjoys the variety, depth and challenge of covering the statehouse beat.

On Twitter: @BenteBirkeland

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán reports on Texas politics and government for NPR's The Texas Newsroom. Prior to moving to Texas, Sergio worked for Bridge Michigan, where he reported extensively on the state’s inaugural redistricting commission, campaign finance and state government. He’s won multiple accolades, including a regional Edward R. Murrow Award while covering politics for Nashville Public Radio. Sergio is a Puerto Rico native and a Michigan State University alum.

On Twitter: @SergioMarBel

Marina Villeneuve is The Associated Press' sole state government and politics reporter in Albany, N.Y. She's focused on developing her investigative reporting skills with accountability stories about New York's reporting of COVID-19 deaths and the sluggish roll-out of rental relief.

On Twitter: @ReporterMarina

Robert Benincasa reports and analyzes data for NPR’s investigations team. Recent work includes data-driven investigations of the inequities of federal disaster aid, coal miners' exposures to deadly silica dust and heat-related worker deaths. Benincasa has also served as the database editor for Gannett News Service and on the faculty of Georgetown University's Master of Professional Studies program in journalism.

On Twitter: @robertbenincasa

Michael de Yoanna is an investigative reporter with The War Horse. He got his start two decades ago as a newspaper reporter before moving to NPR affiliates in Colorado, serving as a news director and investigative reporter. He has earned three dozen honors, including a duPont-Columbia silver baton (co-reporting with NPR), two national Edward R Murrows and a Sigma Delta Chi (as editor) for investigations.

On Twitter: @mdy1

Huo Jingnan is an associate producer on NPR's investigations team. She works with journalists in the organization and in member stations to produce original, in-depth reporting. Her work has prompted the introduction of a senate bill, won some awards, and got a Jeopardy mention. Huo learned journalism in Northwestern University’s Medill School and studied law in China, Canada and France.

On Twitter: @Jingnan_Huo

Barb is chief librarian and associate professor of investigative research methods at Newmark J-School at City University New York. She is the former director of news research at The New York Times.

On Twitter: @barbgray

Margot Williams is a researcher at The Intercept and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, where she has contributed to the Pandora Papers, Implant Files and FinCEN Files. She has reported on the Guantanamo detainees since 2002 for the Washington Post, New York Times, NPR and The Intercept.

On Twitter: @MargotWilliams

Susan Greene reported in California, Nevada and D.C. before her 13 years as a reporter and columnist at The Denver Post. She went on run the nonprofit Colorado Independent before its 2020 merger with COLab. “Trashing the Truth,” a series she reported with Miles Moffeit, was a finalist for the Pulitzer in investigative journalism. She coaches while co-reporting with journalists and currently is leading a multi-outlet investigation of Colorado’s mental health care system.

On Twitter: @greeneindenver

Adam A. Marshall is a senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. His work includes litigation in federal and state courts and training journalists on government transparency. In 2017, he was named to the Forbes “30 Under 30: Media” list for his work promoting government transparency, including the development of the FOIA Wiki. Adam is a graduate of The George Washington University Law School.

On Twitter: @a_marshall_plan

Evan Wyloge is a data and investigative reporter at The Colorado Springs Gazette.

On Twitter: @evanwyloge

Andrea Arzaba is GIJN's Spanish editor. As a reporter and a media professional, she has dedicated her life to documenting the stories of people in Latin America and Latinx communities in the US. Her work focuses on issues around freedom of expression, migration, and women’s leadership. Andrea holds a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University in Washington DC and a BA in Communications/Journalism from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

On Twitter: @andrea_arzaba

John Bones is managing director at SKUP, the Norwegian Foundation for Investigative Reporting. He is one of the Nordic data journalism pioneers and has led trainings at NICAR, IRE, GIJC and multiple national conferences. For more than 20 years he was journalist and editor at VG, the most read Norwegian newspaper.

On Twitter: @vgbones

David E. Kaplan is executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an association of 227 groups in 88 countries. He has won or shared more than 25 awards, including four IRE awards. He has managed nonprofit newsrooms, investigative teams and numerous cross-border projects. He is a former director of ICIJ and chief investigative correspondent for US News & World Report.

On Twitter: @kaplandave

Jenny Lam is a senior lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she teaches investigative journalism and broadcasting. She was a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years in Hong Kong and the UK.

On Twitter: @jennycklam

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Marsha Cooke is an award-winning news and media veteran with a career spanning over three decades. She currently serves as vice president & executive producer for ESPN Films and 30 for 30.

On Twitter: @marshacooke

Dawn Garcia is the director. Garcia helped transform the JSK Fellowships from a sabbatical model to one that coaches and challenges fellows to become innovative leaders and change agents to reinvent journalism.

She began her career as a reporter and editor at West Coast newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she wrote about politics, immigration and legal affairs. She is a past president of the Journalism & Women Symposium, a national nonprofit organization that supports the professional empowerment and personal growth of women in journalism and works toward a more accurate portrayal of society. She has served on nonprofit boards championing First Amendment rights, social justice and quality journalism training and education.

She earned a master’s degree in liberal arts at Stanford, writing her dissertation on the evolution of Spanish-language media in California and earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Oregon. She has taught journalism at Bay Area universities and is a lecturer in Stanford’s Journalism Program. She was a 1991-92 JSK Fellow, where she studied U.S.-Mexico relations.

On Twitter: @degarciaknight

Erica Henry is the vice president, news, for CNN U.S. In this role, she oversees management of the newsgathering southeast regional team of field producers and talent who are covering and breaking news for CNN. She has contributed to the network's coverage including the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Georgia Senate race and the 2020 summer of protests following the death of George Floyd.

On Twitter: @ericahenry

Brant Houston is Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois. He served as IRE's executive director from 1997 through 2007. Before that, he was an award-winning investigative reporter at daily newsrooms. He is author of “Computer-Assisted Reporting" and co-author of “The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook,” and co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

On Twitter: @branthouston

Helen Santoro is a science and investigative journalist based out of rural Colorado where she covers health and LGBTQ communities with a focus on health disparities and inequities. This year, she received a Fund for Investigative Journalism grant and a FIRE Consultancy for contract-related legal assistance for an investigative story into the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine.

On Twitter: @helenwsantoro

Rebecca Aguilar is a freelance reporter based in Dallas. She has been recognized with 50 awards and nominations for her work in journalism, including investigations that uncovered a corrupt Texas school district, and she busted US Mail carriers who are registered sex offenders. Rebecca is also the first Latina and woman of color to be elected President of The Society of Professional Journalists in its 113-year history.

On Twitter: @RebeccaAguilar

Cary Aspinwall is a staff writer for The Marshall Project. Previously, her work at The Dallas Morning News won the Gerald Loeb Award for reporting on a Texas company's history of deadly natural gas explosions. She was a Pulitzer finalist for her work exposing flaws in Oklahoma's execution process and co-founded The Frontier, a nonprofit devoted to investigative journalism in Oklahoma.

On Twitter: @caryaspinwall

Jennifer Gollan is a reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Al Jazeera's Fault Lines program. Her reporting has spurred new laws and oversight. Gollan’s investigation exposing how scores of people are killed by abusers carrying illegal weapons won the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award. Her other honors include an Emmy Award and the Hillman Prize for web journalism.

On Twitter: @jennifergollan

Robert J. Lopez is a senior accountability reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He was part of a team of Times journalists awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service for stories that uncovered corruption in the small city of Bell, near Los Angeles. He has investigated issues involving immigration, crime and corruption across the U.S. and in Mexico and Central America.

On Twitter: @LAJourno

Lexi Churchill is a research reporter for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative team, where she navigates state and federal FOIA laws to tell records-driven accountability stories. Most recently, Churchill worked on an investigation into the systematic failures that led to the worst carbon monoxide poisoning event in recent history, which was named the best investigation of 2021 by the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Headliners Foundation of Texas.

On Twitter: @LChurchilll

Marisa Kwiatkowski is an investigative reporter at USA TODAY and an IRE Board member. Her work has spurred multiagency investigations, criminal charges, resignations and changes to federal law and state policy. Marisa has earned more than 50 journalism awards throughout her career. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Grand Valley State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Indiana University.

On Twitter: @byMarisaK

Lam Thuy Vo is a journalist who marries data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She is currently a Soros Justice Fellow and a data-journalist-in-residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, she worked for BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America and NPR's Planet Money.

On Twitter: @lamthuyvo

Joe is a researcher at the Computational Policy Lab at Stanford University with a background in software engineering. He builds tools to quantify disparities and intervene to help remediate them. While most of his projects focus on racial and economic disparities in the criminal justice system, he has a broad interest in inequitable policies in media, technology, housing and other domains. His work has appeared in the Washington Post and PNAS.

Cheryl Phillips teaches at Stanford and is founder of Big Local News. Previously, Phillips worked at The Seattle Times for 12 years. She has twice worked on breaking news which received Pulitzer Prizes and has twice been on teams that were Pulitzer finalists. Phillips has worked in journalism so long that she used to file stories with a TRS-80. She served for 10 years on the IRE board and is a former board president.

On Twitter: @cephillips

Andy Alford joined The Texas Tribune as director of editorial recruitment, training and career development in March 2022 after a 24-year run at the Austin American-Statesman, where she rose from reporter to managing editor. In her new role, Andy also manages the Tribune’s fellowship program, which employs student fellows to work not just in the newsroom, but in all areas of the organization, including events, product development and marketing.

On Twitter: @aalford

Ade is the managing editor for The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, part of Louisville Public Media. He came to KyCIR in June from Injustice Watch, an investigative newsroom in Chicago where he served as a reporter and then co-editor before his promotion to editor-in-chief in Fall 2020. He's worked as a reporter at Chalkbeat, the Chicago Reporter, The Chicago Sun-Times, and DNAinfo. Ade is also a 2022 Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program fellow.

On Twitter: @public_ade

Mc Nelly Torres is an award-winning journalist and editor at The Center for Public Integrity. She’s also a former investigative producer for NBC6 in Miami. In 2010, Torres co-founded FCIR.org. Throughout her career, Torres has worked for numerous newspapers across the country, including the Sun-Sentinel and the San Antonio Express-News. Torres was the first Latina to be elected to the IRE board of directors.

On Twitter: @WatchdogDiva

Keri Blakinger is an investigative reporter at The Marshall Project. Previously she worked for the Houston Chronicle and the New York Daily News. Before becoming a reporter she spent time in prison and her memoir, Corrections in Ink, publishes in June 2022.

On Twitter: @keribla

New York Times investigative reporter. Awarded three Pulitzers and four George Polk Awards. Co-author, "When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm," which tells the story of power without accountability and how consultants became enablers of opioid makers, autocrats and predatory corporations. Formerly with 60 Minutes and The Wall Street Journal.

On Twitter: @waltbogdanich1

"Not funny," says Anita Hassan. "Laugh-out-loud funny," says The Washington Post. Probably droll at best. Author, "Pandemic, Inc." Reporter, ProPublica. Coping in Washington, D.C. by way of Texas, Florida and Colorado.

On Twitter: @davidmcswane

Josh has spent 35 years reporting on law enforcement and intelligence issues, including terrorism and trafficking in drugs, weapons and humans. Prior to joining USA Today in 2021, he was a senior investigative reporter at Politico, NBC News, and for 20 years, a national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times. His coverage of al-Qaeda later became "The Hunt For KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."

On Twitter: @JoshMeyerDC

Josh helps to coordinate crime and terrorism coverage for all programs and platforms of ABC News. He also produces longform investigative pieces for GMA, World News Tonight, 20/20, Nightline, This Week and ABC News Live.

On Twitter: @JoshMargolin

Katelyn Polantz is a senior reporter for CNN in Washington, D.C., specializing in legal coverage. She writes about courts, politically sensitive investigations and the separation of powers, and she won an Emmy in 2020 for reporting on the arrest of Roger Stone. Coupling source reporting with public records efforts, Katelyn’s work has led to the release of thousands of government documents. She previously was a reporter at the National Law Journal, PBS NewsHour and the Roanoke Times.

On Twitter: @kpolantz

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Pierre Thomas is the Chief Justice Correspondent for ABC News. He joined the network in November 2000 and reports for “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” and all platforms including ABC News Radio and Digital.

Chuck Tobin is a litigator, former journalist and the practice leader of Ballard Spahr's 40-lawyer Media and Entertainment Law Group. He defends the media in libel and privacy lawsuits throughout the country. Chuck is past chair of the American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law and the D.C. Bar and Florida Bar Media & Communications Law Committees, and the Media Law Resource Center's Defense Counsel Section. He is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

Samah Assad is a Peabody and IRE Award-winning investigative producer and data journalist with CBS Chicago. Her work focuses on uncovering inequities and systemic failures in policing, sexual assault cases and more. She aims to provide a platform to voices in historically disenfranchised communities.

On Twitter: @sassadnews

Shay McAlister is an anchor and investigative journalist at WHAS11 in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the host of the chart-topping true crime podcast "Bardstown" and was featured in the Netflix series "Tiger King." Shay graduated with a broadcast journalism degree from the University of Missouri and has focused on crime and community since starting in the business as a weekend general assignment reporter.

On Twitter: @shaymcalisterTV

PJ Randhawa is an award winning investigative reporter with a decade of experience across four TV news markets. Currently she heads up KING5's Facing Race unit, as Tegna's first Investigative Race & Equity Reporter

On Twitter: @pj_ontv

Dorothy Tucker is a Chicago native, raised in Chicago's Lawndale and Austin communities. She has been a reporter for CBS2 Chicago since 1984. Currently, she is a reporter on the station's 2 Investigator team and is also President of the National Association of Black Journalists.

On Twitter: @dorothyTV2

Snr Investigative Reporter with Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, I have held this position for the last 10 years, prior to that I spent over 10 years as a Reporter for the BBC's flagship current affairs and investigative program "Panorama." During this time I have won and been nominated for numerous awards, including awards from BAFTA, Royal Television Society, AIB's, DIG Awards and others.

On Twitter: @Simonboazman

Emily Hopkins is an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica, where they have reported on inequities in Chicago's speed and red-light ticketing and medical exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine among nursing home workers. Before joining ProPublica, Hopkins was an investigative reporter for The Indianapolis Star.

On Twitter: @indyemapolis

Gloria Liu is a freelance journalist. Previously, she was the features editor at Outside Magazine.

On Twitter: @thats_my_line

Jodi Upton is the Knight Chair in Data and Explanatory Journalism at Syracuse University. She has won numerous awards for her previous work leading the USA TODAY data team and her students have won awards for investigative and data stories published in USA TODAY Network, CNN and other outlets. She was a Stanford University JSK Fellow and has nearly $1M in grants. She is currently a Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics consultant and IRE Board Treasurer.

On Twitter: @jodiupton

Maurice Chammah is a staff writer at The Marshall Project and the author of "Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty," which won the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Book Award. He was on a team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He lives in Austin, Texas.

On Twitter: @MauriceChammah

Adam M. Rhodes is a nobinary, first-generation, Cuban American journalist whose work primarily focuses on queer people and the criminal justice system. Their recent work has examined HIV treatment access in Puerto Rico, HIV criminalization in Illinois, and a homophobic capital murder trial. Rhodes was most recently a staff writer and social justice reporter at the Chicago Reader, and they have been published in outlets including BuzzFeed News and The Washington Post.

On Twitter: @byadamrhodes

Mc Nelly Torres is an award-winning journalist and editor at The Center for Public Integrity. She’s also a former investigative producer for NBC6 in Miami. In 2010, Torres co-founded FCIR.org. Throughout her career, Torres has worked for numerous newspapers across the country, including the Sun-Sentinel and the San Antonio Express-News. Torres was the first Latina to be elected to the IRE board of directors.

On Twitter: @WatchdogDiva

Robyn Vincent is an investigative reporter for the NPR member station KUNC in Northern Colorado. Before this role, she was KUNC's Mountain West News Bureau reporter. She built the bureau's first inequality beat and directed projects with reporters across the West that examined the region's appetite for equity. She also built and launched a news department at a small public radio station in Wyoming and was editor in chief of an alternative weekly newspaper there.

On Twitter: @TheNomadicHeart

Nicole is an investigative reporter at Insider. She has investigated misconduct at major Wall Street firms, a MLM essential oil company, and the “Judge Judy” show. A 2021 investigation revealed that top California education officials helped sell access to state public schools to elite Chinese students. She recently received a grant for criminal justice reporting from Columbia University's Lipman Center, and her work has been recognized by SABEW and the LA Press Club.

On Twitter: @NicoleEinbinder

Mendelson is a reporter focusing on threats to democracy at The Center For Public Integrity, which he joined in June 2022. Previously, he worked at Southern California Radio for more than seven years as a data and investigative reporter. His work there included investigations into an empire of slum housing, a troubled nursing home chain and a sheriff's deputy who shot at four people in seven months. His work has been recognized with a Loeb Award and an IRE Award.

On Twitter: @a_mendelson

Bow serves as a deputy bureau chief for WSJ’s corporate news team. He previously was a technology news editor and spot news editor at the Journal. Before joining WSJ in 2017, he was business editor at the Cincinnati Enquirer. He also worked in roles at the Northwest Indiana Times, Sun-Sentinel, Detroit Free Press, Crain's Detroit Business and Automotive News. He earned a journalism degree from Wayne State University and a MBA from Miami (OH) University.

On Twitter: @BowKnowsBiz

Jeremy Finley is a two-time IRE award recipient. A twenty-time regional Emmy winner, he is also the recipient of a national Edward R. Murrow award, a national Headliner award, and four regional Edward R. Murrow awards. A published novelist, his debut novel was named one of the best books of 2018 by People Magazine and a must-read by the New York Post. He is the chief investigative reporter at WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennesee, where he lives with his wife and daughters.

On Twitter: @jfinleyreports

Duane Pohlman is chief investigative reporter and Anchor at WKRC-TV and a national investigative reporter for “Spotlight on America.” He has been honored with hundreds of awards, including being named Best Reporter 19 times in five states. Pohlman is the co-founder and president of the Ohio Center for Journalism (Eye On Ohio), chair of SPJ’s Professional Standards & Ethics Committee, and chair of the Journalism Advisory Board at BGSU. He is a past IRE Vice President.

On Twitter: @DUANELOCAL12

Sarah Rafique is an investigative producer at ABC13 in Houston, where she specializes in data reporting, government accountability and solutions for viewers.

On Twitter: @SarahRafique

Andrea Hickerson, Ph.D., is incoming Dean and Professor in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. Previously she was the Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina and Director of the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology. Hickerson is part of an interdisciplinary team building a deepfake detection tool for journalists.

On Twitter: @aehickerson

Christoph Koettl is a Visual Investigations journalist with the New York Times video team, specializing in the analysis of satellite imagery, video and other visual evidence. He was part of a team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for coverage of the civilian toll of U.S. air and drone strikes.

On Twitter: @ckoettl

Matt Wright, PhD, is a professor of computing security and director of research for the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Wright earned his PhD in computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005 and is the winner of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, including numerous works appearing in the top venues in computer and network security and privacy.

On Twitter: @wrightmk

Katie Townsend is the deputy executive director and legal director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (www.rcfp.org), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. She oversees the litigation, amicus and other legal work of Reporters Committee attorneys, and she represents the Reporters Committee, news organizations and individual journalists in court access, freedom of information and other First Amendment and press freedom matters.

On Twitter: @katie_rcfp

Erica Byfield is an multi award-winning journalist who is currently a general assignment reporter for WNBC in New York City. Originally from California she’s also worked for KMOU, KFVS, KMOV and WSB. Prior to her time in NY she served as an investigative reporter for WSB. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master’s degree from Gonzaga University.

On Twitter: @EricaByfield4NY

Jodie Fleischer is the Managing Editor of Investigative Content for Cox Media Group where she builds national collaborations and works to elevate daily investigative content for ten television stations. She previously spent 20+ years as an investigative reporter for NBC4 in Washington, WSB-TV in Atlanta and WFTV in Orlando. She’s been honored with an IRE Award, duPont Award, and numerous Murrow and Emmy Awards. She has served on IRE’s Board of Directors since 2019.

On Twitter: @jodieTVnews

Christopher has been an investigative and political reporter at WFTV in Orlando, Florida, since 2013. His previous assignments have included covering Hurricane Katrina with the 1st Cavalry Division, the war in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division and telling the story of a haunted couch.

On Twitter: @CHeathWFTV

Sewell Chan joined The Texas Tribune as editor in chief in October 2021. Previously he was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. From 2004 to 2018, he was a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor at The New York Times. He began his career in 2000 at The Washington Post.

On Twitter: @sewellchan

Danielle Ohl is a justice reporter for Spotlight PA. She previously covered the Pennsylvania General Assembly for Spotlight. She spent four years covering Annapolis for the Capital Gazette, where she earned a Pulitzer Prize special citation with her newsroom for covering the mass shooting of her own colleagues. She is mom to a very devilish cat named Wednesday.

On Twitter: @DTOhl

Maria Perez is an investigative reporter with USA Today. She has covered issues affecting immigrant communities for nearly a decade. She investigated Florida companies that profited from undocumented workers and reported them to law enforcement when they got hurt on the job. She has also written about corporate failures that led to one of the deathliest COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. food processing industry and about labor violations suffered by foreign farmworkers.

On Twitter: @mariajpsl

Dubbed “the leading [U.S.] national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies,” Greg directs Good Jobs First, a research center promoting accountability in economic development. His books include The Great American Jobs Scam, which Publishers Weekly called “...a parade of damning case studies showing why communities should not woo corporations with subsidies.” GJF is home to Subsidy Tracker, Tax Break Tracker, Violation Tracker, and Covid Stimulus Watch.

On Twitter: @GoodJobsFirst

Arlene Martinez, a former journalist who spent most of her career watchdogging local government, is communications director for Good Jobs First, a national non-profit resource center focused on government and corporate accountability in economic development. Arlene worked at Hispanic Link News Service, the LA Times, the (Allentown, Pa.) Morning Call, Ventura County Star and wrote the California newsletter for the USA TODAY Network.

On Twitter: @avmartinez

Roman Badanin is founder and editor-in-chief of Agentstvo (The Agency, in English), a collaboration of journalists who have been targeted by the Russian government for their investigative reporting into the most powerful forces in their country.

Axel Gordh Humlesjö (b. 1986) is an internationally acclaimed and Emmy-winning investigative reporter at the Swedish public broadcaster - SVT. He specializes in corruption, money laundering and cross border-reporting. His latest project “Bribes and Brothels - scandal at the headquarters of the world's leading security firm” (2022) revealed dirty secrets inside security giant Securitas. In 2019 he won IRE Awards for the documentary “Deceptive Diplomacy”

On Twitter: @axelhumlesjo

Michael is the research director at Issue One, a bipartisan political reform group based in DC. He previously worked as a reporter for more than 10 years at the Center for Public Integrity, OpenSecrets.org, Mother Jones and other outlets. Since September 2020, he has resided in Colorado and loves hiking in the mountains. Michael is happy to talk with reporters, on the record or on background, especially about campaign finance and election issues.

On Twitter: @mjbeckel

Sandra Fish is a data journalist focused on politics with the Colorado Sun.

On Twitter: @fishnette

Soorin Kim is a data reporter for ABC News’ Investigative Unit, specializing in the influence of money in politics, campaigns and lobbying. She also covers a wide range of other accountability stories using data and documents, from the personal finances of Biden administration officials to uncovering structural inequalities affecting marginalized communities across the country.

On Twitter: @SooRinKimm

Howard Berkes is a former investigations correspondent for NPR whose reporting on workplace safety, worker’s compensation, coal mine safety and the resurgence of black lung disease have garnered four IRE awards, including an IRE Medal. Berkes earned three dozen other journalism awards for business, health, sports, breaking news, science and feature reporting, and a Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard University.

On Twitter: @hberkes

Rae Ellen Bichell is a Colorado Correspondent for KHN (Kaiser Health News), a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. She has been covering health & science for a decade, primarily in public radio.

On Twitter: @raelnb

Jim Morris is executive director and editor-in-chief of Public Health Watch. A journalist since 1978, he has received more than 80 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, three National Association of Science Writers awards, two national Edward R. Murrow awards, two IRE awards and five Texas Headliners awards. Morris spent more than 13 years with the Center for Public Integrity as managing editor, acting CEO and executive editor.

On Twitter: @pubhealthwatch

April Simpson joined the Center for Public Integrity in October 2020 as a senior reporter covering racial equity. She was previously the rural issues reporter at Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Before joining Pew, April was associate editor of Current, where she covered public media and won recognition for her #MeToo investigation of a veteran reporter. April is a graduate of Smith College and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

On Twitter: @aprilleticia

Lois Beckett is a senior reporter at The Guardian, based in Los Angeles. She has reported on gun violence in America since 2013.

On Twitter: @loisbeckett

Abené Clayton is the lead reporter of the Guardian US series “Guns & Lies in America,” which launched in 2019. She started covering community gun violence in her hometown of Richmond, California, and is now based in Los Angeles.

On Twitter: @abene_writes

Cheryl W. Thompson is an investigative correspondent and senior editor for investigations at NPR, overseeing investigations for member stations. Before joining NPR in 2019, she spent 22 years as an investigative and beat reporter with The Washington Post, where she wrote about guns, police, immigration, and politics. Her stories have won myriad awards, including an Emmy, two IRE and National Headliner awards, and three NABJ awards. She also was on the team that won two Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting: in 2002 for 9/11, and 2016 for police shootings. She received NPR’s 2021 public service journalism award given annually to one journalist, and was the reporting coach on the network’s podcast, “No Compromise,” which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting. In 2018, Cheryl was elected IRE’s first Black president, and served three terms in that role.

Sarah Rafique is an investigative producer at ABC13 in Houston, where she specializes in data reporting, government accountability and solutions for viewers.

On Twitter: @SarahRafique

Todd Wallack is deputy managing editor of WBUR, an NPR affiliate in Boston. He previously spent eight years as an investigative reporter and data journalist on the Boston Globe's Spotlight team. Wallack was a Nieman fellow in 2019 and has won national awards for his articles on public records. He has worked on five projects that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

On Twitter: @twallack