D’Vera Cohn is a nationally recognized journalist and researcher on demographics and immigration data trends.  She is a former editor/researcher at Pew Research Center and previously reported for The Washington Post, where she was the lead reporter for the 2000 Census and frequently wrote about demographic data. She is a former Neiman Fellow. 

Russell Contreras is a justice and race reporter for Axios. He previously spent 12 years at The Associated Press, covering immigration, issues around Latino civil rights, racial conflict in the American Southwest, and the legacy of slavery and racial segregation in modern politics. Before that, he also worked as a reporter for the Boston Globe and the Albuquerque Journal. 

Zita Arocha is a bilingual journalist, writer, and educator. She developed the Poynter online self-directed course on immigration reporting––“Understand Immigration from the Border to the Heartland,” and is the founder of Borderzine.com at UTEP, where she taught multimedia journalism for two decades. She has reported on immigration and Latino issues for The Miami Herald, Washington Post, and other national publications.