Meet the 2024-2025 Fellows

Emi Nietfeld 

Emi Nietfeld is the author of “Acceptance,” a critically acclaimed memoir of her journey through foster care, homelessness, and the troubled…

Hanisha Harjani

Hanisha Harjani (they/them) is a print and audio journalist reporting for The Fuller Project. They are currently writing about gender at…

Eli Cahan

Eli Cahan MD, MS is the Benjamin Von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grantee for Mental Health Investigative Journalism. He is an award-winning…

Edward Graham

Edward Graham is the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Grantee. He is a technology reporter with Nextgov/FCW, where he reports on…

Angela Chen

Angela Chen is the morning and noon news anchor at KESQ News Channel 3, the ABC/CBS station in Palm Springs,…

Amanda Miller Littlejohn

Amanda Miller Littlejohn has more than 18 years of journalism, public relations, and coaching experience. As the founder of Package Your…

Aitana Vargas

Aitana Vargas is a Columbia University graduate and an award-winning on-camera news reporter, foreign correspondent, and live tennis commentator based in…

Margo Snipe

Margo Snipe is a freelance writer based in Florida. For years, her writing has covered critical issues affecting the mental…

Kat McGowan

Kat McGowan is a reporter and editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has covered health and biomedical research for…

Meet the 2023-2024 Fellows

Savannah Tryens-Fernandes

Savannah Tryens-Fernandes is a child health and wellness reporter at the Alabama Education Lab, part of AL.com. Prior to AL.com,…

Sandhya Raman

Sandhya Raman is a health policy reporter at CQ Roll Call in Washington D.C., where she has reported extensively on…

Lee Hawkins

Lee Hawkins is producing podcasts in partnership with American Public Media (APM) on the intergenerational effect of racial violence and…

Josh McGhee

Josh McGhee is an investigative reporter at MindSite News covering the intersection of criminal justice and mental health with an…

Evey Wilson Wetherbee

Benjamin Von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grantee for Mental Health Investigative Journalism Evey Wilson Wetherbee is an Assistant Professor of Practice in…

Sonner Kehrt

Sonner Kehrt is an investigative reporter at The War Horse, a non-profit newsroom covering the military and veterans, where her…

Richard Sima

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Grantee Richard Sima is a neuroscientist turned science journalist who writes the Brain Matters column…

Preeti Simran Sethi

Preeti Simran Sethi, a journalist and independent scholar, was named one of the “50 Most Influential Global Indians” by Vogue…

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye is the editor of ICT. She is the first woman to be the chief news executive and top…

Meet the 2022-2023 Fellows

Marla Broadfoot

Marla Broadfoot is a freelance science journalist based in Wendell, North Carolina. She is known for her deeply reported stories,…

Jonathan A. Davis

Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grantee for Mental Health Investigative Journalism Jonathan A. Davis is an radio reporter, producer, and editor….

Micah Fink

Micah Fink is an Emmy-nominated producer and reporter specializing in story-telling at the intersection of science, public health, and the…

Soreath Hok

Soreath Hok is a reporter for KVPR, Valley Public Radio in Fresno, CA. She currently covers local politics and government…

Thomas Mangloña II

Thomas Mangloña II is a journalist from Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, with experience in local, regional, and national newsrooms. He…

Rebekah Sager

Rebekah Sager is an award-winning journalist with over a decade of high-profile media placements and is a senior staff writer…

Rainesford Stauffer

Rainesford Stauffer is a freelance writer and reporter. She writes Teen Vogue’s Work in Progress column, and her work has appeared…

Chanté Griffin

Chanté Griffin is a journalist and natural hair advocate whose work centers on the intersection of race, culture, and faith….

Hannah Furfaro

Hannah Furfaro is a mental health reporter at The Seattle Times. She spent the first half of her career covering…