North America

Kara Andrade has more than two decades of experience in various sectors, including journalism and media, social entrepreneurship, public health, research, and development, launching and supporting...

Ghanaian-Jamaican writer and poet Kwame Dawes is the author of more than a dozen collections of verse, including the critically-acclaimed "Wisteria: Poems from the Swamp Country." Dawes is also the...

Sharon Schmickle has been a journalist for MinnPost.com since 2007, and before that she worked for the Minneapolis Star Tribune where she reported from the paper's Washington bureau and covered wars...

Maura R. OConnor attended Bard College at Simons Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where she studied the liberal arts before graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah...

David grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan and studied sociology at the University of Michigan. In 2003, he moved to Caracas, Venzuela, where he began to work as a freelance photographer. While...

Michelle Nijhuis writes for National Geographic and the science section of The Atlantic, blogs for the New Yorker, and is a longtime contributing editor of High Country News. She is the co-editor of...

Tristan McConnell is a writer and foreign correspondent living in Nairobi, Kenya. His long-form stories have appeared in GQ, Harper's, New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, London...

Elliott Woods is a writer, photographer, and multimedia journalist based in Livingston, Montana. Over the course of a decade, he has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, veterans' issues back...

Michael J. Kavanagh is an American journalist based in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Europe who has reported on central African politics and economics since 2004. He began reporting for...

Peter DiCampo is a documentary photographer whose goal is to contribute his work to a dialogue on international development and perceptions of Africa. He began his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer...

William Wheeler is an award-winning journalist and producer who has reported on political affairs around Africa and the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. His work has appeared...