Perla Trevizo is a reporter for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative. Trevizo is a Mexican-American reporter born in Ciudad Juárez and raised across the border in El Paso, Texas, where she began her journalism career. Trevizo spent more than 10 years covering immigration and border issues in Tennessee and Arizona before joining the Houston Chronicle as an environmental reporter. She has written from nearly a dozen countries, from African refugee camps to remote Guatemalan villages, with the goal of broadening readers’ understanding of the global issues that impact the local communities where she has worked. Her work has earned her national and state awards including the Dori J. Maynard Award for Diversity in Journalism, French-American Foundation Immigration Journalism Award, and a national Edward R. Murrow for a story done in collaboration with Arizona Public Media. She was also honored as the 2019 Arizona Journalist of the Year by the Arizona Newspaper Association.
Jude Joffe-Block is an audio producer, editor and journalist in Phoenix, Arizona. She is the co-author with Terry Greene Sterling of Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance. She was a visiting journalist at the Russell Sage Foundation and is a former fellow with New America and the Logan Nonfiction Program.
Valerie Vande Panne is an essayist and an award-winning reporter. She is the former managing editor of Native News Online. Ms. Vande Panne was an editor in chief of Detroit’s alt-weekly, the Metro Times, and a former news editor of High Times magazine.
Jaeah 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, 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.
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.
Ruxandra Guidi has been telling nonfiction stories for over two decades. After earning a Master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley in 2002, she assisted independent producers The Kitchen Sisters; then worked as a reporter, editor, and producer for NPR’s Latino USA, the BBC daily news program, The World, the CPB-funded Fronteras Desk in San Diego-Tijuana, and KPCC Public Radio’s Immigration and Emerging Communities beat in Los Angeles.
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 Pais newspaper and the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
Ricardo Sandoval-Palos is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor whose career has spanned four decades. In May, Ricardo was named Public Editor – ombudsman – for PBS, the nation’s leading public media outlet.
Prior to joining PBS, Ricardo consulted with non-profit investigative news outlets such as InsideClimate News and 100Reporters, and was a supervising editor for Morning Edition, the flagship news show for National Public Radio.
Ricardo also served as an international editor with Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC, and assistant metro editor for the Sacramento Bee in California. Between 1997 and 2006, he was a correspondent in Latin America for the Dallas Morning News and the San Jose Mercury News.
Ricardo also served as an international editor with Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC, and assistant metro editor for the Sacramento Bee in California. Between 1997 and 2006, he was a correspondent in Latin America for the Dallas Morning News and the San Jose Mercury News.