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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.