Fellows

**Paulette Brown-Hinds**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
publisher, Black Voice News; co-founder, Media in Color
Riverside, California

Enabling the Black press in California to do solutions-focused, data reporting about racial justice and equity.

**Lawrence Daniel Caswell**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
field coordinator, Cleveland Documenters
Cleveland, Ohio

Equipping communities of color in Cleveland with information and tools that help them gain more access to and participation in their city government’s decisions.

**Celeste Fremon**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
founder and editor, WitnessLA
Los Angeles, California

Working with community members to produce investigative reporting of criminal justice issues affecting Los Angeles County’s communities of color.

**Simon Galperin**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
founding director, Bloomfield Information Project
Bloomfield, New Jersey

Creating a community-driven information marketplace to address a lack of local news and information for working class and people of color.

**Geoffrey King**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
founder and executive editor, Open Vallejo
Vallejo, California

Expanding local accountability journalism that exposes police violence and government corruption, and supports community-driven change.

**Jennifer Larino**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
co-founder and president, Lede New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

Creating a community-driven media lab that puts listening and earning reader trust at the center of its mission.

**Sara Lomax-Reese**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
president and CEO, WURD Radio
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Using WURD’s two-way talk format to identify and create deep-dive journalism that better serves Philadelphia’s Black community.

**David Rodríguez Muñoz**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
photo editor, The Salinas Californian
Salinas, California

Creating an information system to serve the underserved indigenous Latino communities of Monterey County.

**Jodi Rave Spotted Bear**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
executive director, Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance
Halliday, North Dakota

Creating an independent local news source for residents of the Fort Berthold Reservation, where currently information sources are controlled by tribal government.

**Sonam Vashi**
JSK Community Impact Fellow
co-founder and operations director, Canopy Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Listening, training, and partnering with Atlanta’s working-class immigrant communities to strengthen information ecosystems and civic participation.