2026-2027

Sinclair Holian

Sinclair Holian covers development and gentrification for the Coconut Grove Spotlight. Through Report for America, Holian previously covered segregation and its lasting impacts for The Roanoke Rambler in Roanoke, Virginia. Holian studied journalism at UNC Chapel Hill, where she reported on inequalities in the agriculture industry, public education, and healthcare. Her story, “Land Loss and Legacy on Historic Black-owned Farmland,” received the 2024 Article of the Year award from the national Hearst Journalism Awards Program. When she’s not chasing a story, she enjoys swimming, hiking, and exploring local thrift shops.

Shauna Reynolds

Shauna Reynolds is the growth and development reporter at Main Street Media of Tennessee. Before joining Report for America, Reynolds worked as a freelance reporter covering the greater Nashville area for local and national outlets. She also interned at the Nashville Banner, after graduating from Middle Tennessee State University in 2025. At MTSU, she served as features editor for Sidelines, the university’s editorially independent student newspaper. When Reynolds is not reporting, she can be found hiking in state parks, watching and feeding backyard birds, or being a homebody with her family and their standard poodles.

Theo Greenly

Theo Greenly reports on Southern Oregon coastal communities for Jefferson Public Radio. Before that, he spent five years reporting from Alaska’s Bering Sea, where he chased stories by boat, helicopter, and, once, Jet Ski. He began as an RFA corps member at KUCB in Unalaska in 2021. After serving a full three years, he remained in the Aleutian Islands as a regional reporter for Alaska Public Media. His reporting has earned multiple honors, including a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of Indigenous language revitalization in the Pribilof Islands and several awards from the Alaska Press Club. His work has appeared on Marketplace, Science Friday and NPR. Greenly began his public radio career at KCRW in Santa Monica after studying journalism at Santa Monica College and graduating from the Transom Storytelling Workshop. When he is not reporting, he is usually hiking or playing guitar.

Margaret Mellott

As an award-winning journalist in both Kansas and New York, Mellott covered health, education, economic development and local government. For the last two years, she's worked with the Johnson County Post, reporting on the community she grew up in. Prior to working with the Post, Mellott worked in central New York. That work, focused particularly on health, earned her two second place awards in state and local contests — the New York Press Association and the Syracuse Press Club. She was also a part of the team that earned first place in the Public Service Division of the Journalists Association of New York Contest. She graduated from Emporia State University's Communication Program in 2022, where she was also editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Bulletin. After college, Mellott covered statehouse news during an internship with the Kansas Reflector.

Stella Mayerhoff

Stella Mayerhoff, a scientist-turned-journalist, covers Minnesota’s Mississippi River headwaters region for KAXE/KBXE. Previously, Stella wrote for Mongabay, Eos, the San Jose Mercury News, the Monterey Herald, Georgia State University Research Magazine, and Stanford University’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. She was a Taylor/Blakeslee Fellow through the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and earned a master’s degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She also holds a master’s degree in psychology from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology and anthropology from the University of Wisconsin. She's a regional finalist for the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award in Science/Environment Reporting. Stella enjoys spending her time with her cat, TBD, who owes his perfectly odd name to a moment of writer’s block.

Gulf States Newsroom via WRKF

The Gulf States Newsroom was created to ensure that stories related to health care, criminal justice, the economy and other important issues continue to be told. WWNO and WRKF in Louisiana, WBHM in Alabama, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, and NPR are working together as a regional newsroom to plan coverage, share resources and add reporting power in a story-rich region that has for too long gone under-covered.

Salem Reporter

Salem Reporter, locally owned by a veteran Oregon journalist, is focused exclusively on reporting about the Salem area, delivering our work through our website and newsletters. Salem Reporter provides clear and compelling coverage of local government, insights into the people who hold power in the community and daily news about everything from community events to students making a difference. Our team of reporters is trusted for award-winning enterprise and investigative work.

The Florida Trib

The Florida Trib is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom that serves Florida as a vital stream of journalism, holding those in power accountable and diving beneath the surface to tell stories that would otherwise go uncovered. Our mission is to strengthen the statewide and local news ecosystems by investigating entrenched problems and proposed solutions through using news in the public interest and community engagement.

Coconut Grove Spotlight

The Coconut Grove Spotlight is an independent nonprofit news organization that covers Coconut Grove, a historic community of approximately 20,000 residents within the City of Miami., as well as Miami City Hall, which is located in the village of Coconut Grove. The Spotlight is dedicated to providing public service journalism that serves the entire Coconut Grove community and that faithfully reflects the full diversity and interests of the community and its residents.

Cardinal News

Cardinal News is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan news site that serves Southwest and Southside Virginia. Our mission is to report the untold stories of Southwest and Southside Virginia, and strengthen the voices of the people in our communities who have been sidelined in the commonwealth’s political, economic and cultural conversations simply because of where they live.