Elizabeth Aguilera is an award-winning multimedia journalist who reports on health, social services and immigration for CALmatters. She is co-founder of the weekly immigration newsletter Migratory Notes. At Southern California Public Radio/KPCC 89.3, she produced stories about community health. Previously, Aguilera was a staff writer at the San Diego Union-Tribune. She won a “Best of the West” award for her coverage of sex trafficking between Mexico and the U.S. @1eaguilera

Elliott Almond has been an investigative sports journalist for three decades, working on the staffs of the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, and San Jose Mercury News. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times and also has been recognized by the Associated Press Sports Editors, Best American Sports Writing, and the Society of Professional Journalists, among others. He has covered 13 Olympics. @ElliottAlmond

Isabella Balandran is a co-lead producer for High School Insider and is a journalism major at Orange Coast College. After interning with High School Insider the summer before her senior year at Mater Dei, Balandran discovered and fostered her passion for journalism. Between running the back end of High School Insider and serving as an editor on her school newspaper, Balandran enjoys keeping up with news and watching live music.

Alison Brower is the deputy editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter, supervising features, profiles, cultural content as well as the magazine’s industry-defining power rankings in Hollywood and media. Previously, she launched and served as editor-in-chief of Dr. Oz The Good Life, and also has held positions at Glamour, Redbook, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen. @abrower

Katy Byron is a third-generation journalist with more than 15 years’ experience in social media, TV, print and digital news. She joined The Poynter Institute as the editor and MediaWise program manager in October 2018. This project aims to teach teenagers media literacy and how to learn the difference between reliable and unreliable information on social media. Prior to Poynter, Byron was the first managing editor for news at Snapchat. @KABGreek

Kevin Camargo is a co-lead producer for High School Insider and attends East Los Angeles College. He has been part of HSI since 2015 and has worked for HSI since summer 2017. Camargo is a South East H.S. alumnus and former editor-in-chief of his school paper, The Jaguar Times. He is the online editor for the college paper, ELAC Campus News. @_kevincamargo

Tom Chiodo is executive producer of special projects in national program development at WETA, Washington, D.C., the leading public broadcasting station in the nation’s capital, developing programming for 354 PBS stations throughout the U.S. Recent projects include the duPont Columbia Award-winning and Emmy-nominated documentary series “Ken Burns Presents Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies” (2015). Chiodo has 30 years’ experience in the entertainment industry, media and communications.

Bill Dwyre was sports editor (25 years) and sports columnist (10 years) with The Los Angeles Times. He retired in November 2015. He has been named sportswriter of the year in two states, Wisconsin (Milwaukee Journal, 1980) and California (LA Times, 2010). He was named National Editor of the Year by the Washington, D.C. Press Cub in 1985, won the National Headliners award that same year and was named the winner of the Associated Press Sports Editors Red Smith Award in 1996 for his contributions to the sports journalism industry. @DwyreLATimes

Alan Gibbons is the editor-in-chief at the award-winning city and regional magazine, Orange Coast. Before this, she spent 17 years at the Orange County Register. She worked in the sports department — in production and overseeing beat reporters who covered the Angels, Dodgers, Ducks, Kings, Lakers, Clippers and the NFL. She moved to Features and supervised Food, Health, Home and Garden and Travel reporters. She is a Denver native and USC alumna.

Allison Graves is a multimedia reporter with Poynter’s MediaWise Project. She was previously a PolitiFact Florida staff writer based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Before PolitiFact Florida, she held a year-long internship with PolitiFact National and reported for PolitiFact Missouri. Graves is a 2016 graduate from the University of Missouri, where she majored in journalism. @AllisonBGraves

Hiwot Hailu is a media reporter at The Poynter Institute and is working with its MediaWise project. Before joining Poynter, she worked as a digital content producer for the NBC-affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. @DigitalHiwot

Molly Heber is the newest addition to the High School Insider team. As the project lead, she works alongside young people to elevate their voices through education, the arts and civic engagement. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Times, she worked with students, educators and schools across Los Angeles to ensure greater access to college and career-readiness supports and the arts. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Davis and a Master of Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Ann Herold has been editing and writing for magazines for more than 25 years, first as managing editor of the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, then as ME for Los Angeles magazine. She was a contributing editor for Saveur magazine and won a James Beard award for food writing in 2004. She has been teaching editing and writing at USC for more than 30 years.

J.P. Hoornstra covers Major League Baseball for the Southern California News Group (L.A. Daily News, Orange County Register, Riverside Press-Enterprise, Daily Breeze, Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts). He is a regular panelist on Access: SportsNet Dodgers, the nightly highlights show on SportsNet LA, and an occasional guest on ESPN’s SportsCenter. @jphoornstra

Bethany Grace Howe is a former award-winning journalist and journalism teacher, who now researches transgender identity as a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon. Also a researcher for the Caitlyn Jenner Foundation, her thoughts on navigating 21st century America as a transgender woman have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today and the Oregonian.

Jesse Katz, a former staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles magazine, is the winner of the PEN Center USA’s Literary Journalism Award and the James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. He has contributed to GQ, Billboard and Smithsonian. His work has appeared in Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Crime Writing. He wrote a memoir, “The Opposite Field.” @byjessekatz

Anne Marie Kelly is a project specialist at the USC Shoah Foundation. She is a recent graduate with her master’s degree in cinema and media studies from USC with publications in The Cine-Files and Spectator. Kelly previously worked in film sound restoration for Deluxe Entertainment and consulted at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oral History Projects.

Rebecca Kessin is a theatrical sound designer working in Los Angeles and regionally since 2006. Theater is her life’s great passion, particularly new play development. She teaches sound design at California State University, Fullerton. @BeccaKessin

Rachel Luna is an award-winning photographer specializing in photojournalism and editorial work. She has documented major news events as a staff photographer for the Southern California News Group’s 11-newspaper organization including the San Bernardino Sun, Riverside Press-Enterprise, Los Angeles Daily News and Orange County Register. In 2018, Luna transitioned to the freelance world and joined the ranks of Getty Images and Associated Press photographers. @TheRachelLuna

Bill Macfadyen is founder/publisher of Noozhawk, Santa Barbara’s No. 1 source of local news and information. He spent the first half of his career as a senior editor of a daily newspaper, but for the last 12 years he’s been in the vanguard of the digital disruption and running his own business — proving that the second act is more exciting than the first. @Noozhawk

Giana Magnoli has been working in local news journalism since she ran her high school paper. She is managing editor of Noozhawk, an online-only news organization that covers Santa Barbara County in California, and spends her days finding and reporting interesting stories. She studied journalism at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and worked on the student-run Mustang Daily newspaper. @magnoli

Gary Metzker has been a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach since 2008. He is design adviser for the Pacemaker and Pinnacle award-winning Daily 49er and Dig Magazine. For almost 25 years, he worked at the Los Angeles Times in various editor positions. Metzker was a part of four Pulitzer Prize-winning staffs for breaking and spot news. @GaryMetzker

Steve Padilla is Column One editor and Metpro director of the Los Angeles Times. Column One is the newspaper’s showcase front-page feature and Metpro a two-year fellowship aimed at promoting diversity in the newsroom. Padilla joined the Times in 1987 as a police reporter but soon moved on to editing. Most recently, he was enterprise editor on the foreign-national desk. He serves as a writing coach and devotes his Twitter feed to writing technique. @StevePadilla2

Aaron Sharockman is the executive director of PolitiFact, the largest fact-checking organization in the United States. Sharockman leads the growth and development of PolitiFact, manages its outreach and news partnerships, and oversees new initiatives and product development. He has been with PolitiFact since 2010 and served most recently as the editor of PunditFact, a website dedicated to checking claims by pundits, columnists, bloggers and the hosts and guests of talk shows. @asharock

Sen. Henry Stern is a sixth-generation Californian and native of the 27th Senate District, which he was elected to serve in 2016. He credits his passion for public service as a family trait, whose diverse history includes farming and ranching, music and film, and a commitment to helping young people. Stern has lectured at UCLA and UC Berkeley, and is a member of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Advisory Committee, the Jewish Federation, the American Jewish Committee, and the Truman National Security Project. @HenrySternCA

Luz Villarreal is a producer for CBS Evening News in Los Angeles where she covers breaking news for the network’s Western Region. Villarreal has produced stories about wildfires, terrorism and investigative features such as California’s largest lead contamination and immigration. Prior to joining CBS, Villarreal was a producer for “Dateline NBC.” For its Hurricane Katrina coverage, a team she was on earned the Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.

Ben Welsh is the data editor at the Los Angeles Times as well as the cofounder of the California Civic Data Coalition, a network of developers working to open up public data. Projects that Welsh has contributed to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Library of Congress’ Innovation Award and other prizes for investigative reporting, digital design and online journalism. @palewire