2026-2027

Anna Wilder

Prior to joining The Associated Press, Wilder was a political and Statehouse reporter in South Carolina with The Post and Courier. During three years covering the Statehouse, including a year and a half at The State newspaper, she chronicled the state’s most contentious policy fights, documenting both the legislative maneuvering and the people most affected. She also spent months covering the arrest and indictment of a former lawmaker on charges related to child sexual abuse material. She is a Florida native and graduated from the University of Florida, where she was managing editor of The Independent Florida Alligator, the student newspaper. Her work has appeared in outlets like Politico, the Miami Herald, and ProPublica.

Aydali Campa

Aydali Campa is a multimedia bilingual journalist based in Chicago whose reporting and video work span education, environmental justice, and immigration. Her work has appeared in The Arizona Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Inside Climate News, and Borderless Magazine. She has produced an investigative documentary, segments for an Arizona PBS primetime series, and short-form videos in English and Spanish for various media organizations and social media platforms. She began her journalism career as an undergraduate at Arizona State University, where she focused on video production and magazine writing, before serving as a Teach for America corps member teaching third and fourth grade. She later returned to ASU to earn a master's degree in investigative journalism. When she's not reporting, she's watching reality TV, working out, or searching for her next hobby.

Ben Bennett

Ben Bennett covers education in Lower Bucks County for the Bucks County Beacon. Before joining Report for America, Bennett interned and worked as a newsroom fellow at WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR affiliate station. There he covered K-12 education, school closures, and youth civic engagement stories. His interest in journalism began in high school, writing movie reviews for the school paper. Bennett went on to study journalism at American University and graduated in 2024. When he is not reporting, you can find him at the local AMC, rooting for the Knicks and Giants, or exploring Philadelphia with his dog.

Ben Austin

Prior to joining The Timberjay, Ben conducted investigations as part of American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop and wrote and edited for the campus magazine The American Way of Life. During that time, he maintained one of the country's leading databases tracking state-level anti-trans legislation in the United States. While writing for the magazine, he put a spotlight on American University's finances, investigating structural issues in the school's revenue streams. He has also worked with WJFF Radio Catskill and the Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth, Minnesota. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from American University, with a minor in data science. Outside of journalism, he enjoys photography and painting.

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.

Cat Carroll

Prior to joining the Times Union, Carroll reported internationally on migration with the support of the Wolff Fellowship. She was a 2025 Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow, and her work has appeared in The Guardian, Progressive Magazine, and the Cap Times. Carroll got her start in journalism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she served as managing editor and later chair of the board of directors of the independent student newspaper The Badger Herald. She grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and speaks German, Spanish, and Arabic, and is currently learning Turkish.

Chart Riggall

Prior to joining the Ouray County Plaindealer, Chart covered courts and legal affairs for Law360 in his hometown of Atlanta, GA. He began his reporting career at the nearby Marietta Daily Journal, covering local and state politics and economic development. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia. Before journalism, he led other lives as a government oversight investigator, brewery hand, and public lands worker in southwest Colorado.

Ryan Oehrli

Ryan Oehrli is a statewide accountability reporter at NC Local. Before joining Report for America, Oehrli reported on criminal justice at The Charlotte Observer, public safety at the Asheville Citizen Times, and other beats at several Mississippi outlets. Oehrli covered Border Patrol and ICE operations, the killing of Iryna Zarutska and North Carolina’s pardon system, among other issues. In 2025, with colleagues at the Observer and the News & Observer in Raleigh, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for breaking news reporting on Hurricane Helene.

Claire Carlson

Before joining MinnPost as the reporter covering drinking water in Minnesota, Claire Carlson was a reporter for the Daily Yonder, where she spent four years reporting on the nexus of climate change, food systems, and rural communities. She also worked as a freelance journalist for Civil Eats, Offrange, FoodPrint, Minnesota Reformer, Sierra Nevada Ally, and other regional and national publications. She credits her career to the single journalism class she took in graduate school that showed her how to write a lede, nut graph, and how to pitch editors (and not get her feelings hurt when rejected). She holds a master’s degree in environmental studies from the University of Montana and a bachelor’s degree in international affairs from the University of Nevada-Reno.

Kent Friel

Prior to joining Salem Reporter to cover education and children's social services, Friel covered Idaho's Wood River Valley as an intern for the Idaho Mountain Express, a twice-weekly, locally-owned print newspaper that serves as the paper of record in Blaine County, Idaho. Across two internships for the Express, he covered everything from elections and the environment to housing and transportation. His reporting was recently recognized in the Idaho Press Club’s Best of 2025 Annual Awards. He holds a degree in history from Dartmouth College, where he was executive editor of the college’s independent student newspaper, The Dartmouth. He also handled layout for The Dartmouth’s print edition, spearheaded a project to introduce a twice-monthly print magazine and wrote a regular cooking column! His writing has also been featured in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and The New York Times Book Review. He speaks Spanish and French, and when not chasing down a story, you can find him immersed in a book!