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Jacqueline GaNun

GaNun is currently a Federal Impact Reporter at The Associated Press. She previously worked as a Dow Jones News Fund intern on the publishing desk at The Wall Street Journal, business news intern at NPR and reporting fellow at The Current of coastal Georgia. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia, where she also earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism and international affairs. At her independent student newspaper, The Red & Black, she served as editor-in-chief and won an award from the Georgia College Press Association for an article about unaffordable housing. GaNun has run two half-marathons on two continents.

Mikella Schuettler

Mikella Schuettler covers the impact of federal politics on communities across Arizona. Before joining the Associated Press, she reported on crime, courts and the craziness of New York City for Bloomberg and the New York Post. This included covering the Sean “Diddy” Combs trial and tracking asylum denial rates across New York’s immigration judges. Schuettler is from Alberta, Canada, but grew up in South Africa, Thailand and Singapore. She recently earned a master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, specializing in data journalism, and loves hunting for the story in the numbers.

Shelby Swanson

Shelby Swanson covers sports business for The Minnesota Star Tribune. Born and raised in North Carolina, she most recently covered UNC athletics for The Raleigh News & Observer. At the N&O, she broke news pertaining to university legal matters and led coverage of the Smith Center arena debate — using public records and source-building to give readers visibility into decisions that weren’t meant to be visible. Her work at the N&O earned four APSE Top-10 finishes in breaking news, long feature and short feature categories. Swanson’s journalism career started when she joined her high school newspaper and soon discovered nobody wanted to lead the sports desk. She holds degrees in Media & Journalism and Hispanic Literatures & Cultures from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she served as sports editor of the independent student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel. When she’s not chasing a story, Swanson is playing pickup basketball, discovering new music or binge-watching Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Bridget Bennett

Born and raised in Minnesota, Bennett is a visual journalist based in Minneapolis, working in photography and video. Prior to joining MinnPost, she was freelancing in Nevada, covering national politics, labor, and climate across the American West. She is a frequent contributor to national outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Colin Tiernan

Before joining CT Insider, Tiernan worked on his family’s farm in Connecticut. And before that, he spent six years at papers out West. He’s covered every beat at one time or another. Tiernan is conversationally fluent in Spanish, a tenacious defender in pick-up basketball and a mediocre-but-passionate wildlife photographer.

Cheree Franco

Cheree Franco is an award-winning print and photojournalist. She has profiled both a US Senator and the founder of OkCupid, covered South by Southwest and Sundance festivals, reported for three months from the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camps, and followed the grassroots caretakers at New Orlean’s Lincoln Beach, a segregation-era Black beach that has been officially closed since 1964 but never abandoned by users. In Arkansas, she investigated a 20-year-old murder conviction, highlighting procedural errors and details that juries never heard. Her coverage ultimately helped the Innocence Project secure a woman’s release from a life sentence without parole. She has reported from New York, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Pakistan, with work appearing in newspapers on two continents, as well as in VICE, Huck, Places Journal and elsewhere. Most recently, she taught journalism at Tulane University.

Aaron Levy-Wolins

Before joining J. The Jewish News of Northern California as a member of Report for America, Aaron Levy-Wolins worked for the publication as a part-time photojournalist, focusing heavily on Bay Area reactions and fallout from the Israel-Gaza War and winning six SF Press Club Awards. Levy-Wolins’ found his passion for storytelling in high school as he worked at a local television station, which gave him training and opportunities to produce and broadcast programs. In the student publications at San Francisco State University, Levy-Wolins concentrated on covering demonstrations during the first Trump Administration, particularly the 2017 Berkeley Protests. He went on to intern and freelance for numerous SF-based news publications, cultivating a better understanding of various Bay Area communities and finding opportunities to photograph local legends, from “Say Hey!” (Willie Mays) to Stephen Curry. Levy-Wolins’ work has been featured in many publications, including the San Francisco Standard, Mission Local, The Bold Italic, Israel’s Haaretz and most recently, 60 Minutes.

Brittany Bowyer

Before joining the Daily Independent as a high school sports reporter, Bowyer was a freelance sports journalist in Arizona for the last decade. She spent the last six years primarily covering high schools and athletic programs in the Tucson area. Her journalism career began back in 2015 when she got her start covering MMA and Arizona State Football for an online publication. Bowyer's passion and love for reporting pushed her to pursue her Master’s in Sports Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.

Caelan Bailey

Caelan Bailey covers the new rural landscape for 100 Days in Appalachia. Before joining Report for America, Bailey's freelance work appeared in 100 Days, The Assembly, and Burnaway. Previously, she was West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s state politics reporter and managing editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator’s long-form journalism magazine, The Eye.

Eleanor Shaw

Eleanor Shaw is an accountability reporter at The Richmonder in Chesterfield County. Before joining Report for America, Shaw was editor-in-chief of James Madison University’s student-run newspaper, The Breeze, for two years. She also covered the Democratic and Republican national conventions on behalf of the Virginia Association of Broadcasters. The summer before her senior year, Shaw interned at The Richmonder. In 2026, she graduated from James Madison University with a bachelor's degree in media arts and design with a concentration in journalism.