Eden Gobuty is The GroundTruth Project's Director of Individual Giving. She brings more than a decade of nonprofit leadership experience, as well as enthusiasm for building meaningful connections between donors and the organizations they generously support. She most recently served as Major Gifts Officer at WFAE, the NPR-affiliated news organization in Charlotte, NC, where she lives. When she's not working you can find her enjoying time with family and friends, listening to a wide-ranging list of podcasts, or dabbling in crafty activities. Eden holds a bachelor's degree in Business and an MBA in Nonprofit Management from American Jewish University.
Catie Talarski is Report for America’s Regional Manager for the Northeast, bringing nearly two decades of experience in journalism, storytelling and audio production. Her stories and documentaries have aired on NPR and member stations across the country. She most recently led the award-winning talk show and storytelling teams, as well as radio programming, at Connecticut Public.
Talarski has long mentored and supported early-career journalists, and has taught podcasting and journalism classes to high school and college students. She created and hosted two live storytelling events in Hartford CT - *the ear cave* listening sessions and Radio Adventure Theater, an experimental variety show combining live music, theater, poetry and documentary radio.
She lives in the Nutmeg State with her husband and two kids and loves exploring beaches, hiking trails and picturesque towns across New England.
A.D. Alibrahim is The GroundTruth Project's Director of Philanthropy. Alibrahim brings over 17 years of experience in international fundraising, with a deep focus on major gifts, planned giving, and donor engagement strategy. His career spans the fields of health equity, human rights, and civic engagement, including leadership roles at Children’s National Hospital Foundation and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. A.D. holds a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management and is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE). Based in Silver Spring, Maryland, he is an avid traveler and home cook who’s always on the hunt for new recipes and passport stamps.
Tiffany Sandholm is the Grants Manager. Sandholm brings over 15 years of development experience in education, animal welfare, and conservation, through which she developed a strong record of securing funding and building lasting partnerships. Most recently, she served as Foundations & Grants Manager at the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. As a UCLA English graduate and former Daily Bruin writer, Tiffany is excited to support truth-based journalism at Report for America and Report for the World.
April Pendergraft is Report for America's Local Sustainability Trainer. She has managed nonprofit and public media fundraising for over 18 years. Pendergraft brings past experience in membership, major gifts, planned gifts and pledge drives for NPR and PBS stations. Most recently, she's worked to develop membership-supported models for podcasting. She's eager to use her knowledge to develop tools and training to help newsrooms thrive. She's also a musician, artist, and proud mom of two.
Sam Harris is the Local News Sustainability Data Analyst for Report for America, after seven years at PBS Reno, most recently as their Director of Membership. She is a passionate fundraising professional with a drive for data-driven response, collaboration, and empowering others. Outside of her professional life, Sam is a nerd: mainly for rock collecting, reading, crafting, and tabletop RPGS.
Sakhi Vyas is based in Kalamazoo, Michigan and has spent the last 8 years overseeing community sponsorships, estate and major gifts, and innovative fundraising at WMUK-FM Public Radio. She also worked in corporate and nonprofit communications. She holds a Masters in Marketing Communications from the Instituto de Empresa (IE Business School) in Madrid, Spain and a B.A. in International Studies from Kalamazoo College. Sakhi is passionate about the power of the human voice - whether it's to tell stories and document the human experience, or as the medium for providing critical information across communities. She and her partner have two young children, and she loves to spoil her family with homemade cakes baked with inventive flavors and decorations.
Rebecca Forman is Chief Development Officer for The GroundTruth Project. She most recently served as head of development and donor relations at The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, prior to which she held leadership roles with United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and with the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation. She holds an MBA from Fox School of Business at Temple University and a BA from Pennsylvania State University. Rebecca lives in Wynnewood, PA with her family and their pup, Quincy.
Priska Neely is a journalist, leader and mentor based in Birmingham, Alabama. Before joining Report for America, she was the founding managing editor of the Gulf States Newsroom, building a team of reporters and editors who work with public radio stations in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. She started her career in public radio as an intern at NPR and worked her way up to temp and producer, in D.C. and eventually Los Angeles.
Her time as a reporter for KPCC/LAist, sparked a passion for local news and she learned many lessons that she's excited to share with the RFA Corps. She was also a reporter and producer at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Outside of work, she loves to tend to her houseplants and her cat and she once wrote a love song about condiments.