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Meribah Knight is a journalist who recently relocated to Nashville from Chicago, where she covered business, the economy, housing, crime and transportation.

Valerie Plinovich is a News Intern at Lakeshore Public Radio. Currently, Valerie is a sophomore Communications Major minoring in English at Indiana University Northwest where she is utilizing her passion for storytelling to pursue a career in Broadcast Journalism. She is also the secretary of IU Northwest's Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) chapter and is the News Director of the campus's radio station, WIUN. Valerie lives in Portage, IN and graduated from Portage High School in 2017. In her (very rare) spare time Valerie enjoys napping, reading and spending time with her family.

Mary Rose is a reporter and senior news producer for 88.1 WYPR FM, a National Public Radio member station in Baltimore. At the local news desk, she assigns stories, organizes special coverage, edits news stories, develops series and reports.

Brianta Diming is an intern at Lakeshore Public Radio - 89.1 FM, but everyone just calls her "Bri." She is currently enrolled at Indiana University Northwest, in Gary, and is working towards her Bachelors of Arts in Communications and Certification in Public Relations. She attended Hobart High School. Bri loves extracurricular activities; she is a member of the Phi Xi Psi Sorority where she is the Chairman of Events as well as the Director of Communications, and is also a member of PRSSA (Public Relations Student Society of America). Bri someday hopes to become the next Oprah Winfrey.

Anjuli Sastry (she/her) is a producer on It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders and a 2021 Nieman Journalism Foundation Visiting Fellow. During her Nieman fellowship in spring 2021, Sastry created, hosted and produced the audio and video series Where We Come From. The series tells the stories of immigrant communities of color through a personal and historical lens.

An-Li became a reporter while completing her law degree at Stanford. In law school, she wrote about housing affordability, criminal justice and economic development, among other topics. She also served as the intern to NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg in Washington, DC, helping Ms. Totenberg to cover the U.S. Supreme Court and other legal matters. Originally from Pittsburgh, An-Li interned with the investigations team at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before joining WESA in August 2017.

Brett is the health reporter and a producer at WXXI News. He has a master’s degree from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and before landing at WXXI, he was an intern at WNYC and with Ian Urbina of the New York Times. He also produced freelance reporting work focused on health and science in New York City. Brett grew up in Bremerton, Washington, and holds a bachelor’s degree from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.