Fellows & Editors

IRP Fellows

  • Kurt Achin

    Kurt Achin

    Affiliation:
    Freelance video
    Year:

    Kurt Achin is a Seoul-based Correspondent and Bureau Chief for Voice of America. ...

  • Ruthie Ackerman

    Ruthie Ackerman

    Affiliation:
    Freelance print
    Year:

    Ruthie Ackerman is a New York-based journalist focusing on women and politics. She ...

  • Kimberlee Acquaro

    Kimberlee Acquaro

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Photo
    Year:

    Kimberlee Acquaro is a filmmaker and photojournalist based in Venice, California ...

  • Matthew Algeo

    Matthew Algeo

    Affiliation:
    Maine Public Radio
    Year:

    Matthew Algeo is a freelance writer and reporter currently based in Rome. His latest ...

  • Nina Alvarez

    Nina Alvarez

    Affiliation:
    Freelance video journalist
    Year:

    Nina Alvarez is a New York-based independent broadcast journalist with experience in ...

  • Ryan Anson

    Ryan Anson

    Affiliation:
    Freelance photographer
    Year:

    Ryan Anson is a freelance photojournalist based in Washington D.C. and Southeast ...

  • Raney Aronson

    Raney Aronson

    Affiliation:
    ABC News
    Year:

    Raney Aronson is a New York-based documentary filmmaker and senior producer for PBS ...

  • Oscar Avila

    Oscar Avila

    Affiliation:
    Chicago Tribune
    Year:

    Oscar Avila is a general assignment reporter with the Chicago Tribune. Previously he ...

  • Sadie Babits

    Sadie Babits

    Affiliation:
    KNAU Arizona Public Radio in Flagstaff
    Year:

    Sadie Babits is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon. Previously, she ...

  • Emily Backus

    Emily Backus

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Video
    Year:

    Emily Backus has been a television journalist since she graduated from Columbia ...

  • Aryn Baker

    Aryn Baker

    Affiliation:
    TIME Asia
    Year:

    Aryn Baker is Time's bureau chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Previously she was ...

  • Audrey Baker

    Audrey Baker

    Affiliation:
    ABC News
    Year:

    Audrey Baker is a producer at ABC News 20/20 and has worked both on TV magazine ...

  • Eliza Barclay

    Eliza Barclay

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Print, Mexico City
    Year:

    Eliza Barclay is a writer, multimedia producer, and photojournalist. Currently based ...

  • Anne Barnard

    Anne Barnard

    Affiliation:
    Freelance
    Year:

    Anne Barnard is a reporter for the New York Times. Previously she covered the Middle ...

  • Julia Barton

    Julia Barton

    Affiliation:
    WHYY-FM Philadelphia
    Year:

    Julia Barton is a freelance journlist. She was formerly an editor at American Public ...

  • Perry Beeman

    Perry Beeman

    Affiliation:
    Des Moines Register
    Year:

    Perry Beeman is veteran environment reporter for The Des Moines Register. Beeman is ...

  • Todd Bensman

    Todd Bensman

    Affiliation:
    Dallas Morning News
    Year:

    Todd Bensman is a senior intelligence analyst/special coordinator for the Texas ...

  • Joshua Benton

    Joshua Benton

    Affiliation:
    Dallas Morning News
    Year:

    Joshua Benton is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. The ...

  • Alan Bjerga

    Alan Bjerga

    Affiliation:
    Knight Ridder newspapers
    Year:

    Alan Bjerga covers agricultural policy for Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C. In ...

  • Laurel Bowman

    Laurel Bowman

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Video
    Year:

    Laurel Bowman is a freelance video journalist based in Washington, D.C. A ...

  • Theresa Bradley

    Theresa Bradley

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Journalist
    Year:

    Theresa Bradley is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City, where she was ...

  • Charlotte Buchen

    Charlotte Buchen

    Affiliation:
    Freelance video
    Year:

    Charlotte Buchen has shot and produced independent documentaries, news stories and ...

  • Richard Byrne

    Richard Byrne

    Affiliation:
    The Riverfront Times
    Year:

    Richard Byrne has worked as an editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, ...

  • Korey Capozza

    Korey Capozza

    Affiliation:
    Freelance
    Year:

    Korey Capozza is a San Francisco-based freelance journalist who writes on the ...

  • Sarah Carr

    Sarah Carr

    Affiliation:
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    Year:

    Sarah Carr covers schools in New Orleans. Previously she covered urban education ...

  • David Case

    David Case

    Affiliation:
    Freelance
    Year:

    David Case is editor of Passport, GlobalPost's membership service, which provides ...

  • Libby Casey

    Libby Casey

    Affiliation:
    KUAC-FM, Fairbanks, AK
    Year:

    Libby Casey is a Washington correspondent for the Alaska Public Radio Network. ...

  • Antrim Caskey

    Antrim Caskey

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Photo
    Year:

    Antrim Caskey is a freelance documentary photographer currently living in New York ...

  • Ariana Eunjung Cha

    Ariana Eunjung Cha

    Affiliation:
    The Washington Post
    Year:

    Ariana Eunjung Cha is a Beijing-based correspondent for The Washington Post. She was ...

  • Sumana Chatterjee

    Sumana Chatterjee

    Affiliation:
    Congressional Quarterly
    Year:

    Sumana Chatterjee is a reporter for Congressional Quarterly's Daily Monitor in ...

  • Tom Clynes

    Tom Clynes

    Affiliation:
    Freelance
    Year:

    Tom Clynes is a freelance journalist and photographer who covers environmental ...

  • Elisabeth Anna Coletti

    Elisabeth Anna Coletti

    Affiliation:
    Christian Science Monitor
    Year:

    Elisabetta Anna Coletti is a staff writer at The Christian Science Monitor in ...

  • Sarah Colt

    Sarah Colt

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Video
    Year:

    Sarah Colt is a freelance documentary television producer living in New York City. ...

  • Helen Coster

    Helen Coster

    Affiliation:
    Forbes
    Year:

    Helen Coster is a New York- based staff writer at Forbes, where she writes about ...

  • Lisa Cullen

    Lisa Cullen

    Affiliation:
    Money Magazine
    Year:

    Lisa Takeuchi Cullen is a New York-based writer and author. Until recently, she was ...

  • Trenton Daniel

    Trenton Daniel

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Print
    Year:

    Trenton Daniel has been a staff writer for The Miami Herald since he completed his ...

  • Meredith Davenport

    Meredith Davenport

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Photographer
    Year:

    Meredith Davenport is a freelance photojournalist based in New York. She lived in ...

  • Jessie Deeter

    Jessie Deeter

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Video
    Year:

    Jessie Deeter is a veteran documentary filmmaker and journalist. She was the ...

  • Jennifer Dunn

    Jennifer Dunn

    Affiliation:
    KTUH-FM, Honolulu, HI
    Year:

    Jennifer Dunn is a freelance radio producer living in China. She also works for ...

  • Na Eng

    Na Eng

    Affiliation:
    "NOW," PBS
    Year:

    Na Eng is a freelance television producer and communications consultant in New York ...

  • Jonathan Ernst

    Jonathan Ernst

    Affiliation:
    Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
    Year:

    Jonathan Ernst is a photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a ...

  • Daphne Eviatar

    Daphne Eviatar

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Print
    Year:

    Daphne Eviatar is a freelance journalist based in New York and a contributing editor ...

  • Michael Flynn

    Michael Flynn

    Affiliation:
    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
    Year:

    Michael Flynn is a writer based in Geneva, Switzerland. A former associate editor of ...

  • Travis Fox

    Travis Fox

    Affiliation:
    WashingtonPost.com
    Year:

    Travis Fox is an award-winning photographer, videographer and producer for ...

  • Marcia Franklin

    Marcia Franklin

    Affiliation:
    Idaho Public Television
    Year:

    Marcia Franklin has been a producer and host at Idaho Public Television since 1990. ...

  • Michael Gartland

    Michael Gartland

    Affiliation:
    The Post and Courier
    Year:

    Michael Gartland is a reporter at The Record in New Jersey. Previously, he was the ...

  • Vanessa Gezari

    Vanessa Gezari

    Affiliation:
    St. Petersburg Times
    Year:

    Vanessa Gezari is a Washington-based writer who covers national and international ...

  • Stéphanie Giry

    Stéphanie Giry

    Affiliation:
    Foreign Affairs
    Year:

    Stéphanie Giry is deputy managing editor at Foreign Affairs. She has written ...

  • Julie Goodman

    Julie Goodman

    Affiliation:
    Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, MS
    Year:

    Julie Goodman covers mutual funds and regulatory developments for BoardIQ, a Web ...

  • Jessie Graham

    Jessie Graham

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Print and Radio
    Year:

    Jessie Graham is a senior multimedia producer for Human Rights Watch in New York. ...

  • Adam Graham-Silverman

    Adam Graham-Silverman

    Affiliation:
    Congressional Quarterly
    Year:

    Adam Graham-Silverman covers foreign policy for Congressional Quarterly. At CQ, he ...

  • Ruxandra Guidi

    Ruxandra Guidi

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Writer and Producer
    Year:

    Ruxandra Guidi is a freelance radio and print news correspondent for South and ...

  • Shayla Harris

    Shayla Harris

    Affiliation:
    NBC News
    Year:

    Shayla Harris is an award winning video producer with The New York Times where she ...

  • Cheryl Hatch

    Cheryl Hatch

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Photo
    Year:

    Cheryl Hatch is a photojournalist and documentary photographer with extensive ...

  • Molly Hennessy-Fiske

    Molly Hennessy-Fiske

    Affiliation:
    The (Raleigh) News and Observer
    Year:

    Molly Hennessy-Fiske is a metro reporter covering county politics for The Los ...

  • Macarena Hernandez

    Macarena Hernandez

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Writer
    Year:

    Macarena Hernandez recently completed a year-long reporting project for The Dallas ...

  • Betsy Hiel

    Betsy Hiel

    Affiliation:
    Toledo Blade
    Year:

    Betsy Hiel has been the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s foreign correspondent ...

  • Vanessa Ho

    Vanessa Ho

    Affiliation:
    Post Intelligencer
    Year:

    Vanessa Ho is a criminal justice reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where ...

  • Evelyn Hockstein

    Evelyn Hockstein

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Photo
    Year:

    Evelyn Hockstein is a freelance photojournalist who has covered the ...

  • Nathan Hodge

    Nathan Hodge

    Affiliation:
    Defense Week
    Year:

    Nathan Hodge covers the defense industry for The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he ...

  • Beatrice Hogan

    Beatrice Hogan

    Affiliation:
    Vanity Fair
    Year:

    Beatrice Hogan is a researcher at Vanity Fair magazine in New York and a freelance ...

  • Christopher Hondros

    Christopher Hondros

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Photo
    Year:

    Christopher Hondros is a staff photographer for Getty Images News Service. Based in ...

  • Vanessa Hua

    Vanessa Hua

    Affiliation:
    San Francisco Chronicle
    Year:

    Vanessa Hua is an award-winning freelance journalist.  She is working on her ...

  • Kristan Hutchison

    Kristan Hutchison

    Affiliation:
    Juneau Empire
    Year:

    Kristan Hutchison is a staff writer for the Juneau Empire, the daily newspaper in ...

  • Cyril Ibe

    Cyril Ibe

    Affiliation:
    WLUW FM
    Year:

    Cyril Ibe is the host and executive producer of "Afriscope" a weekly radio program ...

  • Steve Inskeep

    Steve Inskeep

    Affiliation:
    National Public Radio
    Year:

    Steve Inskeep is co-host of "Morning Edition" on National Public Radio (NPR). Before ...

  • Sam Jaffe

    Sam Jaffe

    Affiliation:
    The Scientist
    Year:

    Sam Jaffe is a Philadelphia-based associate editor at The Scientist magazine, a ...

  • Maggie Jones

    Maggie Jones

    Affiliation:
    New York Times Magazine
    Year:

    Maggie Jones is a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has also ...

  • Carrie Kahn

    Carrie Kahn

    Affiliation:
    KPBS-FM San Diego
    Year:

    As a reporter for NPR's National Desk, Carrie Kahn covers news from Los Angeles. ...

  • Jeremy Kahn

    Jeremy Kahn

    Affiliation:
    Fortune
    Year:

    Jeremy Kahn is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi, where he contributes to ...

  • Konstantin Kakaes

    Konstantin Kakaes

    Affiliation:
    Freelance print
    Year:

    Konstantin Kakaes spent the 2009-10 academic year studying information theory and ...

  • Joanna Kakissis

    Joanna Kakissis

    Affiliation:
    Freelance writer
    Year:

    Joanna Kakissis spent the 2008-2009 academic year studying climate change-related ...

  • Krista Kapralos

    Krista Kapralos

    Affiliation:
    The Herald, Everett, WA
    Year:

    Krista J. Kapralos is a reporter at The Herald in Everett, WA, where she has worked ...

  • Michael Kavanagh

    Michael Kavanagh

    Affiliation:
    WNYC Radio
    Year:

    Michael J. Kavanagh is a journalist based in New York and Kinshasa who reports about ...

  • Kira Kay

    Kira Kay

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Video
    Year:

    Kira Kay is co-founder, along with fellow IRP alumnus Jason Maloney, of the Bureau ...

  • Miranda Kennedy

    Miranda Kennedy

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Journalist
    Year:

    Miranda Kennedy reports about culture and politics in South Asia, and the impact of ...

  • Raffi Khatchadourian

    Raffi Khatchadourian

    Affiliation:
    The New Yorker
    Year:

    Raffi Khatchadourian is a staff fact-checker for The New Yorker magazine. Before ...

  • Steve Kiehl

    Steve Kiehl

    Affiliation:
    Baltimore Sun
    Year:

    Steve Kiehl is a features writer at the Baltimore Sun, where he has covered ...

  • Nikole Killion

    Nikole Killion

    Affiliation:
    WJLA NewsChannel 8, Arlington, VA
    Year:

    Nikole Killion is a correspondent for the Hearst-Argyle Washington bureau. ...

  • Leslie Knopp

    Leslie Knopp

    Affiliation:
    KGW-TV Portland, OR Country Focus: Indonesia
    Year:

    Leslie Knopp is currently working as a freelance journalist. Most recently she has ...

  • Jacqueline Koch

    Jacqueline Koch

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Photographer
    Year:

    Jacqueline Koch is a Seattle-based freelance photojournalist who has focused on ...

  • David Kohn

    David Kohn

    Affiliation:
    CBSNews.com
    Year:

    David Kohn is a medicine and health reporter (and now blogger) for The Baltimore ...

  • Rachel Konrad

    Rachel Konrad

    Affiliation:
    Associated Press
    Year:

    Rachel Konrad is senior communications manager at Tesla Motors. Previously, she was ...

  • Alex Kuffner

    Alex Kuffner

    Affiliation:
    Providence Journal
    Year:

    Alex Kuffner is a staff writer for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island. He joined ...

  • Christina Larson

    Christina Larson

    Affiliation:
    The Washington Monthly
    Year:

    Christina Larson is an editor at Foreign Policy magazine and a fellow at the New ...

  • David

    David "Quil" Lawrence

    Affiliation:
    Freelance
    Year:

    David Aquila Lawrence  has been covering Iraq since he first went there on an ...

  • Jori Lewis

    Jori Lewis

    Affiliation:
    Freelance radio
    Year:

    Jori Lewis is a freelance writer and a radio journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her ...

  • Daniel Lovering

    Daniel Lovering

    Affiliation:
    Freelance
    Year:

    Daniel Lovering is a freelance journalist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For ...

  • Phuong Ly

    Phuong Ly

    Affiliation:
    The Washington Post
    Year:

    Phuong Ly  is a freelance magazine writer, consultant and journalism teacher. A ...

  • Julia Lyon

    Julia Lyon

    Affiliation:
    Salt Lake Tribune
    Year:

    Julia Lyon covers social services at The Salt Lake Tribune in Utah, where she has ...

  • Dawn MacKeen

    Dawn MacKeen

    Affiliation:
    Freelance
    Year:

    Dawn MacKeen is a freelance reporter based in Los Angeles. She is the author of a ...

  • Jason Maloney

    Jason Maloney

    Affiliation:
    ABC News
    Year:

    Jason Maloney is a freelance news and documentary producer living in New York. His ...

  • Suzanne Marmion

    Suzanne Marmion

    Affiliation:
    PRI
    Year:

    Suzanne Marmion is based in New York. Previously, she was a Malawi, Africa-based ...

  • Seema Mathur

    Seema Mathur

    Affiliation:
    Freelance video
    Year:

    Seema Mathur is a correspondent and founder of Global Voice Productions based in ...

  • Kelly McEvers

    Kelly McEvers

    Affiliation:
    Freelance radio journalist
    Year:

    Kelly McEvers is a freelance correspondent for National Public Radio based in ...

  • Douglas McGray

    Douglas McGray

    Affiliation:
    Freelance
    Year:

    Douglas McGray is an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation.  He writes ...

  • Tara McKelvey

    Tara McKelvey

    Affiliation:
    American Prospect
    Year:

    Tara McKelvey is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, a senior ...

  • Kavita Menon

    Kavita Menon

    Affiliation:
    Freelance Print
    Year:

    Kavita Menon is a freelance journalist based in New York. Until August 2003, she ...

  • Shereen Meraji

    Shereen Meraji

    Affiliation:
    National Public Radio, Los Angeles
    Year:

    Shereen Meraji works for National Public Radio in Los Angeles as a producer and ...

  • Andrew Metz

    Andrew Metz

    Affiliation:
    Newsday
    Year:

    Andrew Metz joined the CBS News program "60 Minutes" in 2006 after many years as a ...

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