Yinka Adeparusi is an international award-winning photojournalist with National Mirror newspaper in Lagos, one of the most widely read newpapers in Nigeria. Before joining National Mirror, he has interned with The Punch and NewAge newspapers as a reporter and photojournalist.

A graduate of Lagos State University School of Communication where he bagged double honours in Photojournalism and Cinematography, he is a multiple award winner whose works expose the ills of his immediate environment and society at large, with a special lens for recording the ‘why’ frames. His work centers majorly around human rights abuse and social exclusion, and with special attention on the rights of children.

Anna Therese Day is an award-winning independent journalist and social media researcher. She is a 2013 Fulbright Fellow, a 2012 UN Press Fellow, and was named one of Google Zeitgeist’s top 30 Great Young Minds of Our Time in 2011. The Shorty Awards for Social Media recognized her as one of the Top 10 journalists of the Year at their 2013 and 2014 awards.

On the ground in Bahrain, Brazil, Egypt, India, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, the Palestinian Territories, Syria, South Sudan, and Turkey, her coverage focuses on American foreign policy, women’s issues, and youth organizing. Her work has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including CNN, Al Jazeera English, CBS, and numerous print outlets, translated into Arabic, English, Hebrew, and Spanish. Day is a founding board member of The Frontline Freelance Register, a representative body for freelance conflict journalists organized by freelance conflict journalists.

Piero Locatelli works since 2012 as a reporter in one of Brazil’s foremost magazines, CartaCapital. He studied journalism at Universidade de São Paulo and has been covering politics since 2008, working in two of the biggest Brazilian news websites: iG and UOL. He also reported based in China, where he studied for 6 months. Last year, he wrote a book about the Brazilian protests in Brazil, #VemPraRua.

Brandy Miller is a freelance journalist, photographer and editor based in Brussels, Belgium. A native of California, Brandy studied International Relations and German Studies at Lewis & Clark College and the University of Munich. She is a Fulbright Scholar Alumnus, focusing on transatlantic relations, linguistic diversity and social inclusion policy.

Andrew Ochieng is a 30-year-old journalist at East Africa’s largest media house, Nation Media Group, and reports for NTV-Kenya, where he likes to focus on features and environmental stories. He started out as a trainee reporter at Kenya’s Citizen TV in 2009. Andrew studied journalism at the United States International University-Africa. He has covered stories on elections, politics, corruption, health, wildlife and climate change. Ochieng was a finalist for the 2014 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist from the Developing World Free Press Association award.

Bolanle Omisore is a Lagos, Nigeria based journalist and has contributed to a number of publications from National Geographic.com to The Africapitalist magazine to NPR. She covers international energy and business news from the African continent. She is also a 2013 McCloy Fellow, and a 2011 International Reporting Fellow for the International Center for Journalists. Before attending graduate journalism school at New York University, she worked with both The New York Times and ABC News. A native of Tampa, Florida, she is a graduate of Howard University.

“In 2018, Anrike founded Global Ground Media, an online publication for investigative journalism in Asia. Global Ground Media (GGM) works with 25 journalists and photographers across Asia on underreported issues. GGM especially focuses on Do No Harm and solutions-oriented approaches in journalism. GGM received financial or in-kind support from Free Press Unlimited, Transparency International, Google News Initiative, News Impact Academy, the Solutions Journalism Network and the Civil Media Company.

Previously, Anrike worked at the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) as a financial crime investigator. At the AFM she specialised in derivatives trade at banks and illegal investment products. She also applied her anthropological skillset in cultural transformation projects at the major banks and insurance companies of The Netherlands. She graduated as a special investigative officer (‘buitengewoon opsporingsambtenaar’) at the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service FIOD in 2014.

GGM also offers training on digital and physical safety, and investigative journalism including illicit finance investigations. Anrike trained researchers and journalists in investigative techniques at seven Myanmar media organisations including Frontier Myanmar, Myanmar Now, Mawkun magazine and Irrawaddy.

And she worked with grantees of Deutsche Welle Akademie and International Media Support on financial sustainability. Through training and collaborative coaching, community radio projects worked on developing sustainable business models, becoming donor-independent and setting up transparent accounting practices. Since 2009, Anrike has worked as consultant in business development of startups and media organisations in Europe and Asia.”