Rachael Bedard, MD is an internist, geriatrician and palliative care physician and a contributing Opinion writer at The New York Times. From 2016 to 2022, she worked with Correctional Health Services, providing medical care in New York City’s jails. There, she founded the Geriatrics and Complex Care Service, a team focused on supporting the oldest and sickest incarcerated individuals through clinical care, court advocacy, compassionate release, and discharge planning. She currently practices at Woodhull Hospital’s Safety Net Clinic, serving homeless and housing-insecure New Yorkers.

Jasper Craven is an investigative reporter covering veterans, the military, and American men for outlets including The New York Times Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The New Republic, The Nation, The Baffler, and New York magazine. He’s the author of the forthcoming book “God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood.” He was also the co-author of the book “Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs.”

Jasmine Garsd is an Argentine-American journalist and immigration correspondent for National Public Radio. Garsd is currently writing a musical alongside acclaimed Argentine musician Sofia Rei, based on three generations of women they both met on a reporting trip to Nebraska. She is also currently writing her first book, “When I Woke Up, The Monster Was Still There: An Immigration Story,” about the women she has interviewed during the second Trump Administration.

Tanvi Misra is an award-winning magazine writer and investigative journalist primarily covering immigration and justice issues. She was previously a 2022-23 Ida B. Wells fellow at Type Investigations. Her work has appeared in New York, The Nation, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Politico, The Baffler, Lux, The High Country News, New Republic, The Verge, Jewish Currents, Harper’s Bazaar, Bloomberg CityLab, Roll Call, Teen Vogue, NPR, and other outlets. She won the 2022 Ira A. Lipman fellowship at Columbia University and a Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Grant in 2023. In 2024, She was given the Lando “Writer of Note” award by the de Groot Foundation. 

Ryan “R.L.” Nave is a veteran journalist working in the South. He has written extensively about politics, race, equity, and criminal justice, and their intersections. He previously served as editor-in-chief of Reckon (Advance Local) and the nonprofit Mississippi Today. He has also been an editor and reporter at newspapers in Jackson, Miss., and Springfield, Ill. He has contributed to Ebony, The Source, The Root, and Serial/The New York Times. He and his teams have earned state and national journalism awards, including the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Journalism and a national Edward R. Murrow Award. He has held fellowships at Columbia University, City University of New York, the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern.

Katie Rose Quandt an award-winning journalist who writes about criminal justice, incarceration, and inequality. She is a contributing writer at Solitary Watch and Truthout, and has written for The Atlantic, Slate, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The Appeal, The Nation, Vice, In These Times, and other publications. Katie Rose was a 2023 Ira A. Lipman Fellow, a 2020 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, and a 2017 Soros Justice Media Fellow.