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Black Voice News

Black Voice News, a news site, focuses on advocacy, solutions-oriented and data-driven reporting. It has addressed issues like disparities in health and education, police violence, social justice and civil rights battles. BVN has chronicled some of the most important stories impacting the lives of Black Californians, and given voice to the community while expanding its scope of civic involvement.

Anita Li

Anita Li covers education for the Prince William Times. Li's passion for local nonprofit news started when she interned for WLRN, Miami's NPR station. She graduated from Northwestern University, where she reported for The Daily Northwestern. She has also interned at FOX 5 DC. She speaks Mandarin and Spanish, and is always on the hunt for a good tiramisu.

Dallas Free Press

Dallas Free Press, a nonprofit news site, launched in January 2020 with the mission of amplifying voices and exploring solutions to the city’s systemic inequities. It focuses community journalism efforts on three zip codes in South Dallas and West Dallas, which are predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods, respectively.

Camilo Diaz Jr.

Prior to joining the Dallas Free Press as a visual journalist, Camilo Diaz Jr. was a video intern at KERA, the NPR and PBS member station for North Texas, where he developed a deep appreciation for video production, making his inner child smile by working at a station he watched growing up. He also worked as a multimedia fellow at the Fort Worth Report, covering local news in his hometown. As a teenager, he began documenting his community and identity through photography, leading him to the world of photojournalism. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a concentration in photojournalism from the University of North Texas.

Isaac Wasserman

Before joining Lookout Eugene-Springfield, Isaac freelanced in sports and news in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and interned at NCAA Photos. Inspired by community and interested in the environment, Isaac began his journalism career focusing on environmental justice stories. During college, he interned with Wisconsin Watch, where he reported on PFAS contamination and its effects on a Madison community. He later interned at the Malheur Enterprise, a rural newspaper in Eastern Oregon, covering the fentanyl crisis and post-wildfire rejuvenation on rangeland. Isaac studied journalism, environmental studies and science communication at the University of Oregon, where he was a Science and Memory Fellow and worked for student publications Flux Magazine and Science Story. He was also a sports photographer at Oregon with Eric Evans Photography.

Diego Vargas

Before joining Fresnoland as a Report for America corps member, Diego served as their community correspondent and covered stories in multiple beats, including local government, transportation and elections in Fresno County. He began as a general assignment student writer for Fresnoland in 2023 while serving as editor-in-chief for The Collegian, Fresno State's student-run newspaper. At the paper, he started his journalism career as an Arts & Entertainment editor and was involved in transitioning its weekly newspaper edition to a 24-page print magazine with a focus on long-form stories. He earned his bachelor's degree in digital journalism from Fresno State, speaks Spanish natively and is passionate about photojournalism.

Andy Lusk

Andy Lusk is the mid-cities communities reporter for NPR member station KERA in Dallas. He is a returning Report for America corps member, having spent two years with KUCB, the NPR member station serving Alaska's Aleutian and Pribilof Islands. While in Alaska, Andy was an award-winning general assignment reporter with a focus on local and tribal government. He previously reported for InvestmentWires, a financial trade publication based in New York City. Born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, Andy grew up on Carolina barbecue but is willing to give Texas dry rubs a try. He spends his free time hiking and writing fiction. If you run into him in the wild, tell him about your favorite book. Andy is an alumnus of New York University with a bachelor's degree in sociology.

Grant Ritchey

Prior to joining the Racine County Eye, Grant Ritchey covered K-12 education at Knox Pages in Ohio for three years, writing solutions-journalism-focused stories on Knox County's public schools. He also covered local government and crime at the Ashland Times-Gazette.

Nick Anschultz

Before joining Mainstreet Daily News to cover K-12 and higher education, Anschultz spent three and a half years at the Levy Citizen, where he served as the newspaper's Editor/Reporter. In that role, Anschultz covered everything from government and education to sports and local events. He discovered his passion for journalism while attending the University of Florida, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in May 2021. When he is not typing words on his keyboard, you can usually find Anschultz watching sports - especially his Florida Gators - fishing, or spending time with friends and family.

Jorgelina Manna-Rea

Jorgelina Manna-Rea is an environmental reporter for the Kingsport Times News. Before joining the team in Kingsport, she was a producer at NPR and WAMU's live talk show 1A. There, she produced a variety of conversations ranging from how communities recover from disasters to what it means to love. She also produced and reported at NPR and WBUR’s "Here & Now" and NPR member station WUSF, respectively. While studying at the University of South Florida, she was a staff writer and assistant news editor at The Oracle, the student-run newspaper.