2025-2026

Tabius McCoy

Before joining The Atlanta Voice, Tabius McCoy was a visual journalism fellow at the Connecticut Mirror, where he reported on a variety of topics across the state, including politics, social justice, education, and culture. During his time at The Connecticut Mirror, he produced a written and photographic documentary on the 50-year history of Connecticut hip hop, making it one of the first publications in the nation to document and tell the history of Connecticut’s hip hop scene. McCoy's journalism journey began during his senior year at Georgia Tech, where he was a writer and photographer for The Technique and a weekend jazz radio personality for 91.1 FM WREK Atlanta, the university’s campus station. After graduating, he attended the Columbia School of Journalism, where he discovered his passion for photojournalism. In his spare time, McCoy enjoys weightlifting, running, and discovering new music to add to his Spotify playlist.

Alejandra Molina

Alejandra Molina is a senior reporter and youth mentor at Boyle Heights Beat. Prior to joining the Beat, Molina was part of the team that launched De Los, a new section of the Los Angeles Times exploring Latinidad in L.A. and across the country. Before that, she was a national reporter for the independent and nonprofit Religion News Service as part of a global religion journalism initiative with the Associated Press and the Conversation. There, she covered Latinos and spirituality. As a staff writer, you can also find her bylines in newsrooms under the Southern California News Group, where she covered city, immigration and breaking news beats. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Eater, LAist, and the Washington Post. She grew up in the L.A. region, including El Monte and Pomona.

Abby Weiss

Prior to joining Chestnut Hill Local, Abigail Weiss wrote features and trending stories for Hearst Connecticut Media Group. There, she wrote about entertainment, the environment and interesting people in the Nutmeg State. Weiss holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University, where she minored in environmental science and history, as well as served as the digital managing editor for the independent student newspaper, The Daily Orange. Her profile about Joe Biden’s first wife, Neilia, for The D.O. received Associated Collegiate Press Awards and qualified her for the 2022 Hearst National Writing Championship, where she won third place and the award for best reporting technique. As an intern for InsideClimate News, she wrote in-depth stories about environmental justice in Connecticut, national climate trends and California agriculture. She’s was also a contributing writer at Callaway Climate Insights, and interned for The New York Post’s news team.

Daniel O’Connor

Daniel O’Connor covers rural government at Bangor Daily News and The Maine Monitor. Dan studied at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism for two years before his move to Maine. Working alongside his master’s program, he covered corporate behavior, trade and tariffs as a business reporter for pet industry publication GlobalPETS, wrote consumer stories for The U.S. Sun, and freelanced political news for New Jersey Monitor. Dan is a 2023 graduate of Seton Hall University, where he served as the editor of The Setonian, building out award-winning datasets to track COVID on campus for the student newspaper. While there, he reported from New Jersey’s state capitol as an intern at Politico. Becoming a corps member has brought him back to his roots; he got his start at his high school paper covering small-town budget meetings.

Lev Gringauz

Before joining Silicon Prairie News, Lev Gringauz reported on the Jewish communities of Minnesota and Cincinnati for Jewfolk, Inc., and was a regular freelancer for MinnPost, covering the business of media in Minnesota. His writing career started with making love songs for high school sweethearts. On a two-year leave of absence from college, he fell into journalism while exploring Ukraine and Belarus, where his parents were born. Lev cut his teeth with internships at The New York Jewish Week and MinnPost. As a freelancer he developed a niche in enterprise philanthropy reporting, while also writing stories on subjects ranging from cybersecurity issues to the intersection of AI and journalism. Lev speaks Russian (begrudgingly), has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, and his favorite journalism movies are “The Paper” and “Spotlight.”

Priya Shahi

Before joining Rocky Mountain PBS, Priya Shahi was a reporter for the Staten Island Advance, covering public health and human-interest stories, including disparities in maternal health outcomes and the region’s response to the mental health crisis. Her passion for journalism began after moving from Nepal to Queens, New York — one of the world’s most diverse places — where every block held untold stories. Today, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University.

Hannah Shields

Before joining Daily Inter Lake, Hannah Shields reported on the Wyoming state government for the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, covering health care policy, education and state politics, among other issues. She earned a first-place Pacemaker Award from the Wyoming Press Association for an investigative piece on special education in public schools. She placed third in the Top of the Rockies Award for a story on Medicaid in Wyoming. Her passion for journalism was sparked while taking Journalism 101 at a community college in California. From there, she transferred to Long Beach State University and immediately joined the student newspaper, where she served as the news editor. She interned at The Sacramento Bee the summer after graduating with her bachelor's degree in journalism and political science. When not writing, Shields enjoys dancing ballet, reading and listening to podcasts!

Abe Aboraya

Prior to joining Oviedo Community News, Abe Aboraya's work appeared on NPR, ProPublica, Kaiser Health News and StoryCorps. He spent 2018 investigating post-traumatic stress disorder in first responders, and investigated why paramedics didn't enter Pulse nightclub to bring out victims. In 2018, the Florida Associated Press Professional Broadcasters Contest awarded that series second place in the investigative category and first place in the public affairs category. Aboraya holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Central Florida. His first journalism job in 2007 was covering the city of Winter Springs in Seminole County. A father of two, Aboraya spends his free time reading and writing fiction and enjoying his second home in the Hyrule kingdom.

Daniel Schoenherr

Daniel Schoenherr is a multimedia reporter and recent graduate of Michigan State University’s School of Journalism. Before joining Cadillac News, he reported for the Detroit Free Press through the American Communities Project, covering the cultural, socioeconomic and political shifts impacting working-class Michigan. At Bridge Michigan, he tracked municipal opioid settlement spending and helped uncover $90 million in unspent funds. Inspired by Bridge’s nonprofit funding model, he created and led a new role at the student-run State News—newsletter director—spearheading donation campaigns that raised thousands. Most recently, he contributed statewide reporting to more than a dozen Michigan news outlets through Capital News Service. Schoenherr first found his passion for local journalism as news director of WSDP Plymouth, where he kept the metro Detroit community informed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Outside the newsroom, he explores trails and waterways by foot, bike and kayak.

Lillian Avedian

Lillian Avedian covers education for the Nashville Banner. She is a former assistant editor and staff writer at the Armenian Weekly, where she reported on international politics, women’s rights, and diasporic identity. Her writing and reporting on the Middle East, North Africa, Russia, and the Caucasus has been published in Democracy in Exile, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Hetq, and Girls on Key Press, among other outlets. She has traveled to Morocco to report on the rise of women DJs and LGBTQ rights and to Armenia to cover the regional conflict and displacement crisis. Avedian holds master’s degrees in journalism and Near Eastern studies from New York University and bachelor’s degrees in peace and conflict studies and Slavic studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a published poet with a deep love for Armenian feminist poetry.