Ana Lissardy

Ana Lissardy is a Uruguayan author, poet, journalist, and editor. She holds a degree in Literature and a master’s degree in Cinema. She has collaborated with media outlets across Europe and Latin America, including The Guardian, The New York Times, El País, la Repubblica, Gatopardo, El Tiempo, among many others. Ana works as an independent editor of narrative and journalism, and also serves as an editor and copy editor for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) in the United States.

As an author, she has published novels, narrative journalism (chronicles and profiles), and poetry collections in Spain, Uruguay, and other Latin American countries. Her work has received several awards and distinctions.

Dagmar Thiel

Dagmar Thiel is an Ecuadorian-German journalist and the CEO of Fundamedios, a non-profit organization dedicated to press freedoms and freedom of expression throughout the Americas. In her native Ecuador, Thiel reported for Ecuavisa and TC TV, and contributed to Spain’s El País newspaper and the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

Jaeh Lee

Jaeh Lee is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a 2021-2022 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow. She has written for California Sunday, The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Topic Stories, Vice News, and Mother Jones, among other publications. She is a recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for excellence in longform, narrative reporting on underrepresented groups in America.

Jude Joffe-Block

Jude Joffe-Block is a journalist, currently based in Northern California after years in Phoenix, Arizona. She has worked for NPR, The Associated Press and public radio stations in the West. She is the co-author with Terry Greene Sterling of Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance. 

Linda Jue

Linda Jue is an NAHJ member and a contributing editor to palabra. She is editor at large for the investigative site 100Reporters as well as a reporting and writing coach for grantees of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. She is a consultant for the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.

Mónica Ortiz Uribe

Mónica Ortiz Uribe is an independent reporter born and raised in El Paso who writes about the U.S./Mexico border and the American Southwest. Her work has appeared on National Public Radio and the El Paso Times. In 2020, she co-hosted the podcast Forgotten: The Women of Juárez about the disappearance and murder of women in El Paso’s Mexican sister city. The production was listed among the top ten podcasts of 2020 by the Atlantic.

Ruxandra Guidi

Ruxandra Guidi has been telling stories for more than two decades. After earning a Master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley in 2002, she has worked as a documentary audio producer, a features writer, and an editor for both English and Spanish publications throughout the U.S. and Latin America. Fonografia Collective, co-founded in 2005 with her partner Bear Guerra, has consulted with various news and community organizations on placemaking, trainings and public engagement in an effort to make empathetic and culturally-sensitive documentary storytelling more accessible.

Sylvia A. Harvey

Sylvia A. Harvey, widely known as SAH, is an award-winning journalist, author, and speaker whose work sits at the intersection of race, class, policy, and incarceration. Her acclaimed book, The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family, was a finalist for the Media for a Just Society Awards. SAH’s reporting appears in The Nation, Elle, Vox, Politico, and more, and is cited by lawmakers and taught in university classrooms. She is the founder of Just Love, an emerging nonprofit that will provide justice-involved young adults with storytelling skills for the digital age and financial literacy.

Tina Vasquez

Tina Vasquez is a movement journalist with more than 15 years of experience reporting on immigration, reproductive injustice, food, labor, and Latino culture. Currently, she is the features editor at the nonprofit newsroom Prism and serves on the board of Press On, a Southern journalism collective that strengthens and expands the practice of journalism in service of liberation. Tina was born and raised in Southeast Los Angeles and currently calls North Carolina home.

Valeria Fernández

Valeria Fernández is an immigrant from Uruguay and the founder and executive director of Altavoz Lab. Under her leadership, Altavoz has grown from a pilot project into a nationally recognized initiative that uplifts trusted messengers, advances accountability journalism, and helps build a more equitable news ecosystem.

An award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and producer, Valeria began her career at a small Spanish-language newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona, where she learned to report with and for immigrant communities. Her work has since appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, Pacific Standard, Latino USA, and PRX’s The World. She is the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for her reporting on underrepresented communities and was named a 2025 Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Valeria previously served as managing editor of palabra, a publication of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, where she championed fair pay and editorial support for freelancers. Through Altavoz Lab, she continues to mentor and empower the next generation of community-rooted journalists.

Valerie Vande Panne

Valerie Vande Panne is an actor and publisher of Fry Bread, an online publication supporting art and artists in the Indigenous world. She is a former multiple award-winning reporter. She has covered Indigenous restoration and reconciliation, economics, smart urban planning, media, the environment, politics, and more for many news outlets in the U.S. and around the world.  Ms. Vande Panne occasionally teaches media at the Institute for American Indian Arts.