2026-2027

Isabela C. Lisco

Prior to joining KOLD-TV, Lisco pursued and published investigative video stories in Chicago and Washington, D.C., on issues like foster care, environmental health and citizen militias. As a multimedia journalist in northern Wisconsin, she covered everything from childcare funding cuts to car shows. Lisco also reported for the student news station at Northwestern University while completing her undergraduate degree in journalism and Middle Eastern studies. Isabela speaks four languages fluently (English, Spanish, German and Arabic) and is committed to using these linguistic and cultural competencies to cover underserved communities.

Fabianna Rincón

Prior to joining El Tiempo Latino, Fabianna graduated from American University with her bachelors in journalism, bridging politics and the media working at the School of Communications and studying mis- and disinformation with the University Honors Program. Throughout her time at AU, she worked as a digital journalist for NBC10 Boston and worked with in the student newsroom of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She also received scholarship opportunities from The LAGRANT Foundation, and continued exploring political communications as an intern with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Raised in a household of Venezuelan journalists, her passion for reporting began at just seven years old when she was first publishing Spanish-language interviews with musicians, politicians, and public figures. She is thrilled to return to Spanish reporting with El Tiempo Latino, and cannot wait to cover the local government and communities that welcomed her into the world of local journalism.

Alex Frick

Before joining the Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader, Alex Frick studied journalism at the University of Florida. As a non-traditional student, Frick returned to school to pursue his reignited passion for storytelling and discovered journalism. While in college, he interned at the Leader, where he experienced firsthand the challenges of providing consistent and sufficient, high-quality local news coverage in rural areas. Frick was also one of 24 students from the United States selected by CNN to participate in a 10-day global crisis simulation in Abu Dhabi, joining 120 students from 20 countries to experience fast-paced reporting under pressure. Prior to his return to school, Frick worked in automotive management, following in his father’s footsteps where he developed valuable leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. He now brings that same drive, curiosity, and passion to covering real-life stories and pressing issues in Jefferson County.

Theo Wells-Spackman

Theo Wells-Spackman covers economic inequality in Vermont for VTDigger, where he previously reported on education, floods, and general news as an intern. Prior to joining that newsroom, he was production intern for the Trenton Project, a documentary series diving into the local history and culture of Trenton, New Jersey. He has also worked as a research intern for Facing History and Ourselves. His journalistic work began in high school, when he worked on a documentary covering gender bias in Vermont public schools for the program “What’s the Story?” He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Princeton University, where he was a producer and editor for the podcast section at the Daily Princetonian. He is from Weybridge, Vermont.

Amanda Pérez Pintado

Amanda Pérez Pintado covers health for the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI), a nonprofit investigative newsroom. Some of her recent work has focused on Puerto Rico’s prison health care system. Before joining the CPI, she reported on science and politics for El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico’s largest daily newspaper. She previously worked as a reporter for USA Today and as a Report for America corps member at Investigate Midwest, a nonprofit news site based in Champaign, Illinois. Pérez Pintado holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus and a master’s from New York University. She has taught journalism courses at her undergraduate alma mater and Sagrado Corazón University. Pérez Pintado is a native of Bayamón, Puerto Rico, and a lover of books and horror movies.

Katelyn Ferral

Katelyn Ferral is a reporter with the Tampa Bay Times covering the impact of federal policy on local communities. Prior to coming to the Tampa Bay Times, Ferral taught English Language Arts in a Title I, inner city public elementary school through Americorps' Teach For America program. Before spending a year in the classroom. she was a reporter on the investigations team at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Her work was regularly published in USA TODAY. Ferral spent a month in 2022 in Poland along the Ukraine border documenting the refugee crisis and human toll of the Russian war in Ukraine for USA TODAY. She has reported extensively on the military and veterans affairs on the state and national level. She was named a Livingston Award finalist in 2022 for national reporting for her investigative work on the National Guard. She has also received the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award. Before the Journal Sentinel, she was the investigative reporter at The Cap Times in Madison, Wis. Prior to that, she covered the energy industry at the Pittsburgh Tribune Review and local government at the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

Graham Krewinghaus

Before joining Nogales International, Krewinghaus reported as a summer intern for VTDigger and the Cape Cod Times. He recently graduated from Georgetown University, where he studied Spanish and journalism. There, he was editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Voice, the student newsmagazine. Having grown up in the Boston area, Krewinghaus is a vocal fan of the Celtics and plays basketball in his free time. He speaks Spanish fluently and Portuguese conversationally.

Oona Wood Milliken

Before joining The Nevada Independent, Oona Milliken was a student journalist at Columbia Journalism School, where she covered politics, housing and business. Prior to that, she worked as a metro reporter and freelancer in New York City. She holds an undergraduate degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, where she first fell in love with journalism.

Annie Bresee

Before becoming a Report For America Corp Member, Bresee was the editor of two community newspapers in Georgia and Alabama. While there, she covered issues like the local school boards' efforts to consolidate under a federal desegregation order, citizens protesting a proposed quarry, and abuse in a small town church. Bresee became interested in journalism late in college when she began writing for the university’s newspaper and would later write a long-form feature for her undergraduate thesis. She received her undergraduate degree from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.

Maggie Reynolds

Maggie Reynolds covers rural communities in Kent and Sussex counties for Spotlight Delaware. Reynolds is a 2024 graduate of Middlebury College, where she majored in History and minored in Political Science and Spanish. During her senior year, she was the editor-in-chief of the college’s student-run newspaper, The Middlebury Campus. She led The Campus’ coverage of discontent over the college’s staff compensation system, a student encampment on campus and a lawsuit over the removal of a former governor’s name from the college chapel. While at Middlebury, Reynolds interned at the non-profit online investigative newspaper VTDigger, where she covered local government, housing and education in Vermont. She has also held internships covering local businesses and community events at Seven Days Vermont and The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, NY. Prior to joining the Spotlight newsroom, Reynolds spent a year teaching English at a secondary school in Madrid. In her free time, Reynolds can be found swimming, running and drinking iced maple lattes.