Milan Polk is Report for America's Data & Information Associate. Previously, Polk wrote and edited for various publications including Men’s Health, The Chicago Tribune, and Vulture.
Maddie is the Manager for Local News Sustainability at Report for America. She came to Report for America from The Public's Radio, Rhode Island's NPR member station, where she was the Director of Individual Giving. At TPR, she oversaw the station's membership program, other fundraising initiatives, and assisted her colleagues in the newsroom with marketing and outreach efforts.
Before she started working in local journalism, Maddie worked in local history. She was the Director of Advancement at the Stonington Historical Society and oversaw all fundraising and marketing initiatives for the Society. She has also worked in fundraising at the John Carter Brown Library, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Clackamas County Historical Society.
Maddie has a bachelor's degree in public history from Portland State University and a master's degree in public humanities from Brown University.
Originally from Oregon, Maddie now calls Rhode Island home and lives in Providence with her husband and polydactyl cat. Beyond local news, Maddie is interested in urban gardening, local coffee, and film photography. She will always have a seltzer recommendation and never misses an episode of The NPR Politics Podcast.
As a small business entrepreneur, Morgan Baum is focused on building an engaged community, creating quality products, and supporting her team to reach their personal goals. Morgan has a track record of growing revenue,
finding creative solutions to complex problems, and looking for partnerships to ensure mutual success. Morgan’s two personal mottos are “a high tide lifts all boats” and “we all smile in the same language.”
For the last seven years, she has served as CEO of the Clay Coyote, an art gallery, pottery studio, and artist-entrepreneur incubator. Before that, Morgan served for fifteen years in the nonprofit advocacy and journalism
industry. Morgan began her career with the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC as a writer and researcher focused on the media and telecommunications industry, during that time winning numerous awards and accolades for groundbreaking research on media consolidation and hidden fees.
She went on to work for Consumer Reports in various roles including: Associate Director of Development, Manager of External Relations, Senior Organizer in Public Policy, and the Director of the HearUsNow campaign in Federal Policy. As a media contributor, Morgan regularly appears on the local CBS. She also has appeared on PBS, WGN, CNN, NBC,
ABC, and numerous radio and podcasts.
She holds a BS in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin (River Falls) and a MS in Fundraising Management from Columbia University in New York City. Above all, family is most important to Morgan. She and her husband enjoy spending time with their daughter and family dog, most often on Cape Cod or Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Anh Gray is the Corps Excellence Regional Manager for Region 6 (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming).
Gladi Suero (they/them) is The GroundTruth Project's Communications Assistant. Suero graduated from the University of Connecticut in May 2022 with a double major in journalism and communications. Suero is from Waterbury, CT, where they were communications assistant for the public schools district. They are passionate about social justice and social equity.
Along with activism, Suero is also passionate about collage-making and reading, mostly nonfiction.