2020 Reporting Fellows

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Sara Sheridan

Reporting Fellow

Sara Sheridan is a freelance journalist and a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. She received her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia...

René Sing-Brooks, born on the Nicaraguan Caribbean coast in 1961, is a writer, photographer and digital filmmaker living in Jackson Heights, New York. He arrived in the United States in 1992, invited...

Anya Slepyan

Reporting Fellow

Anya was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. She is a member of the class of 2021 at Swarthmore College, and is a History major with minors in Latin American and Latinx Studies and in Russian. In...

Manish Sreevatsava

Reporting Fellow

Manish is a 2020 Master of Public Health graduate from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he studied Health Systems and Policy. Prior to his graduate studies, Manish worked for Peer...

Maranie Staab

Reporting Fellow

Maranie Staab is a storyteller—a photographer, videographer, and journalist. Her work focuses on human displacement, social justice issues and the effects of conflict, with special attention to the...

Michaela Vatcheva

Reporting Fellow

Michaela Vatcheva is a Turkish-Bulgarian-American documentary filmmaker and student at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. As a researcher for the Investigative Reporting Program, a UC...

Rita Venant

Reporting Fellow

Rita Venant is a recent graduate of Wake Forest University, where she studied communication and journalism. While at Wake Forest, she was involved in promoting the internationalization of the campus...

Natalie Wodniak

Reporting Fellow

Natalie Wodniak is a graduate student at George Washington University, where she will receive her Master of Public Health degree in Global Health Epidemiology and Disease Control. She believes in...

Laura Zornosa

Reporting Fellow

Laura recently graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Journalism and International Studies. In the past, she has worked at places like Hoy and the Center for Public Integrity...