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He began his career as a classroom teacher in the New York City schools through Teach For America. He has also taught in the Chicago public schools, at Roosevelt University and at Chicago City Colleges’ Wilbur Wright campus. In addition, he has worked with the NYC Teaching Fellows program, with After School Matters and as an independent education consultant.</p> <p>Since joining NLP in 2009, he has coordinated classroom and after-school programs, served as Chicago program manager, worked on organizational strategy and developed NLP’s digital program. He has also provided news literacy training and workshops to educators and others throughout the area. He was promoted to his current position in January 2014 and oversees NLP’s education team, which develops resources and training for teachers. He and the other team members are based in Chicago.</p> <p>Peter is a graduate of Indiana University, where he majored in English and African American studies and co-founded an independent monthly student newspaper, and has a master’s degree in the humanities from the University of Chicago.</p> <h3><strong>Media Appearances</strong></h3> <p><strong>Chicago Media Talks, </strong><em><a href="https://chicagomediatalks.libsyn.com/teaching-media-literacy-in-the-fake-news-era-with-peter-adams-of-news-literacy-project">Teaching Media Literacy in the ‘Fake News Era’</a><br /> </em></p> <p><strong>Wired, </strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-election-swinging-facebook-fueled-get-out-the-vote-machine/"><em>The Election-Swinging, Facebook-Fueled, Get-Out-the-Vote Machine</em></a></p> <p><strong>Columbia Journalism Review, </strong><a href="https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/disinformation-weekly-how-mid-term-newspapers-are-failing-the-electorate.php">‘Disinformation<em> Weekly’: How midterm newspapers are failing the electorate</em></a></p> <p><b>The New York Times, </b><em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/technology/misinformation-students-media-literacy.html?partner=calculated">When Teens Find Misinformation, These Teachers Are Ready</a></em></p> <p><b>WTTW, </b><a href="https://news.wttw.com/2021/04/20/news-educators-say-journalists-should-slow-down-social-media"><em>News Educators Say Journalists Should ‘Slow Down’ on Social Media</em></a></p> <p><b data-stringify-type="bold">New York Times, </b><a class="c-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/learning/lesson-of-the-day-how-to-deal-with-a-crisis-of-misinformation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/learning/lesson-of-the-day-how-to-deal-with-a-crisis-of-misinformation.html" data-sk="tooltip_parent"><em>Lesson of the Day: ‘How to Deal With a Crisis of Misinformation’</em></a></p> <p><em><b data-stringify-type="bold">NPR, </b><a class="c-link" href="https://www.npr.org/2020/03/14/815916424/misinformation-around-the-coronavirus" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.npr.org/2020/03/14/815916424/misinformation-around-the-coronavirus" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Misinformation Around the Coronavirus</a></em></p> <p><b data-stringify-type="bold">Education Week, </b><em><a class="c-link" href="https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/how-to-talk-about-social-media-and-the-capitol-insurrection-a-guide-for-teachers/2021/01" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/how-to-talk-about-social-media-and-the-capitol-insurrection-a-guide-for-teachers/2021/01" data-sk="tooltip_parent">How to Talk About Social Media and the Capitol Insurrection: A Guide for Teachers</a></em></p> <p><b data-stringify-type="bold">The Hechinger Report</b>, <em><a class="c-link" href="https://hechingerreport.org/the-in-school-push-to-fight-misinformation-from-the-outside-world/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://hechingerreport.org/the-in-school-push-to-fight-misinformation-from-the-outside-world/" data-sk="tooltip_parent">The in-school push to fight misinformation from the outside world</a></em></p> <p><b data-stringify-type="bold">The Denver Channel</b>,<em> <a class="c-link" href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/news-literacy-project/everyone-should-fact-check-this-is-how-easy-and-quick-it-can-be-done" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/news-literacy-project/everyone-should-fact-check-this-is-how-easy-and-quick-it-can-be-done" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Everyone should fact check; this is how easy and quick it can be done</a></em></p> <p><strong>Illinois Public Media, </strong><em><a href="https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/how-can-you-tell-if-the-news-you-read-is-real" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1">How can you tell if the news you read is real?</a></em></p> <p><strong>@AJStream, </strong><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQBBZJ2ztw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">What is being done to thwart Russian disinformation on Ukraine?</a></em></p> <p><strong>NBC News,</strong><em><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/ukraine-conflict-shows-gen-z-isnt-immune-misinformation-online-rcna19606" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1"> Gen Z isn’t immune to misinformation. These zoomers are making sure their peers don’t get fooled.</a></em></p> <p><strong>Fox 5 DC, </strong><a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1044363" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2"><span data-ogsb="white">How to <em>separate online fact from fiction</em></span></a></p> <p><strong>Scientific American, </strong><span data-ogsc="black" data-ogsb="white"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schoolkids-are-falling-victim-to-disinformation-and-conspiracy-fantasies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3">Scho<em>olkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies</em></a></span></p> <p><strong>The 74, </strong><em><a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/a-year-after-jan-6-insurrection-teachers-wary-of-anti-crt-laws-careful-how-they-broach-capitol-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4">A Year After Jan. 6 Insurrection, Teachers Wary of Anti-CRT Laws Careful How They Broach Capitol Attack</a></em></p> <p><strong>WBEZ Chicago’s <i>Reset with Sasha Ann-Simons</i></strong><span data-contrast="none">, </span><a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/changes-at-x-encourage-spread-of-false-claims-especially-about-israel-hamas-war/bdc28b86-2c83-42ac-966c-bb542c45e802"><span data-contrast="none">Changes at X encourage spread of false claims, especially about Israel-Hamas war</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong>C-SPAN’s <i>Washington Journal</i></strong><span data-contrast="none">, </span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?531257-3/peter-adams-efforts-combat-misinformation"><span data-contrast="none">Peter Adams on efforts to combat misinformation</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none"><strong>TVNewsChec</strong>k, </span><a href="https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/talking-tv-news-literacy-project-targets-a-threat-to-democracy/"><span data-contrast="none">News Literacy Project targets a threat to democracy</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong>Fox 5’s <i>On The Hill</i></strong><span data-contrast="none">, </span><a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1379408"><span data-contrast="none">News Literacy Project’s ‘RumorGuard’ seeks to stop misinformation as 2024 elections near</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none"><strong>Scripps News</strong>, </span><a href="https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/news-literacy/the-war-on-misinformation-in-modern-wartime"><span data-contrast="none">The war on misinformation in modern wartime </span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none"><strong>Obama Foundation 2023 Democracy Forum</strong>, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/gbog2qF5x-A?feature=shared&t=5465"><span data-contrast="none">Spot the real news: Three tips for staying informed</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none"><strong>AARP</strong>, </span><a href="https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-2023/spot-election-misinformation.html"><span data-contrast="none">11 ways to fight election misinformation</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none"><strong>United Press International</strong>, </span><a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/01/22/violent-threats-rhetoric-judges-election-donald-trump/8121705685283/"><span data-contrast="none">Violent threats, rhetoric becoming commonplace, researchers warn</span></a><span data-contrast="none"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none"><strong>Wired</strong>, </span><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-election-swinging-facebook-fueled-get-out-the-vote-machine/"><span data-contrast="none">The election-swinging, Facebook-fueled, get-out-the-vote machine</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none"><strong>The New York Times</strong>, </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/technology/misinformation-students-media-literacy.html?partner=calculated"><span data-contrast="none">When teens find misinformation, these teachers are ready</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none"><strong>NPR</strong>, </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/03/14/815916424/misinformation-around-the-coronavirus"><span data-contrast="none">Misinformation around the coronavirus</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none"><strong>NBC News</strong>, </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/ukraine-conflict-shows-gen-z-isnt-immune-misinformation-online-rcna19606"><span data-contrast="none">Gen Z isn’t immune to misinformation. These zoomers are making sure their peers don’t get fooled.</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <h3>Keynote</h3> <p><strong>Celebrating News Literacy Change-Makers 2021, </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNHk9YJIc7A"><em>Keynote speech by Peter Adams, Senior Vice President of Education</em></a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-claudia-borgelt"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Claudia-Borgelt_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Claudia-Borgelt_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Claudia-Borgelt_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Claudia</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Borgelt</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Vice President of Strategy and Impact</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Claudia Borgelt joined the News Literacy Project in July 2018, and now oversees the organization’s fundraising efforts, impact and data operations, and its civic engagement programming.</p> <p>Claudia has spent her career in nonprofit management and fundraising roles with focuses on partnership development, corporate and foundation portfolio management, volunteer engagement, event planning, and adult education programming. Prior to joining NLP, Claudia was the associate vice president of development at BUILD Inc., a national youth entrepreneurship program headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. She previously led the daily operations, board management and continuing education efforts for membership-based healthcare associations in Georgia, and she began her career in university fundraising and alumni relations.</p> <p>Claudia earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature with a minor in comparative religions from Emory University and holds a financial success for nonprofits certificate from Cornell University.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-mary-lynn-hickey"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mary-Lynn-Hickey_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mary-Lynn-Hickey_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mary-Lynn-Hickey_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Mary</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Lynn</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Hickey</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Vice President of Administration</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Mary has over 20 years of experience with nonprofit organizations as an administrator, community outreach and volunteer coordinator, and board member. She joined the News Literacy Project as program administrator in December 2011 and became vice president of administration in January 2014.</p> <p>Prior to joining NLP, she was associate director of the Falls Church Housing Corporation in Falls Church, Virginia, where she oversaw the staff, budget, fundraising, marketing and community advocacy and outreach. She previously worked for the Dominican Retreat in McLean, Virginia, the Hospice of Northern Virginia and the Northern Virginia Hotline. She is a former board member of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce and currently serves as a member of the town council in the Town of Bath, WV.</p> <p>Mary is a graduate of American University, where she majored in economics and urban studies.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-erin-b-moore"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Erin-Moore-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Erin Moore" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Erin Moore" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Erin-Moore-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Erin-Moore-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Erin Moore"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Erin</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>B.</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Moore</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Vice President of Development</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Erin Moore is the Senior Vice President for Development at the News Literacy Project. She engages with and actively listens to donors to understand their philanthropy goals and align them with NLP’s mission.</p> <p>Moore previously worked at myAgro, where she led the international Development team in raising more than $30 million annually. Erin has a proven track record in securing major gifts from foundations, corporations, governments, and individuals. Before myAgro, she spent over 10 years as chief of staff in the nonprofit sector, managing aspects of fundraising, leading organizational strategic planning, and directing cross-functional initiatives.</p> <p>Erin is a graduate of Monmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in business and communications and has completed executive education certificate programs at the Harvard Kennedy School and Cornell University. In her free time, Erin enjoys trying her hand at a variety of creative endeavors, including knitting and pottery.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-ebonee-otoo"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ebonee-Rice_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ebonee-Rice_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ebonee-Rice_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Ebonee</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Otoo</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Vice President of Educator Engagement</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <div class="team1-link -c:teal"><i class="icon-twitter -c:teal"></i> <a href="https://twitter.com/EboneeSpeaks" target="_blank">@EboneeSpeaks</a></div> <p>Ebonee Otoo joined the News Literacy Project in April 2020. A strategic coalition builder and community engagement expert, she has spent her career successfully scaling up campaigns and programs in the pursuit of equal access for all.</p> <p>From 2015 to 2017, she led the national partner engagement program at Enroll America, a nonprofit created to ensure that members of often underserved communities were able to enroll for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Her work resulted in millions of people within minority, women and young adult communities gaining health coverage. After Enroll America closed its doors, she joined the District of Columbia’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education as a community outreach specialist, building compelling digital experiences for constituents that led to positive outcomes for children, educators and families.</p> <p>Ebonee began her career as a marketing/outreach coordinator for the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and has also worked for Golden Girl Media, BET Networks and the International Black Women’s Public Policy Institute. A native of Los Angeles, she holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.</p> <h3>Media Appearances</h3> <p><strong>KGUN 9</strong>, <a href="https://www.kgun9.com/news-literacy-project/productive-conversations-talking-to-people-who-believe-misinformation"><em>Talking to people who believe misinformation</em></a><br /> <a href="https://www.kgun9.com/news-literacy-project/different-types-of-misinformation-and-how-to-identify-it"><em>Different types of misinformation and how to identify it</em></a></p> <p><strong>Ms. Magazine,</strong><em><a href="https://msmagazine.com/2021/03/16/women-journalism-media-ida-b-wells-ida-tarbell-alice-allison-dunnigan-k-connie-kang/"> A Tribute to Women in Journalism Who Cracked Glass Ceilings</a><br /> </em><br /> <b><span data-contrast="auto">School Library Journal, </span></b><em><a href="https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=news-literacy-project-launches-educator-network">News Literacy Project Launches NewsLitNation, a National Educator Network</a> </em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">Mozilla Foundation</span></b><b><span data-contrast="auto">’s</span></b><b><span data-contrast="auto"> Misinfo Monday, </span></b><a href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/how-tell-fact-crap-newsfeed/"><span data-contrast="none"><em>How to</em> Te<em>ll Fact from Crap in the Newsfeed</em></span></a><em> </em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">WRTV Indianapolis, </span></b><a href="https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/news-literacy-project/we-live-in-the-most-complicated-landscape-in-history-the-importance-of-news-literacy"><span data-contrast="none">“<em>We live in the most complicated landscape in history:” The importance of news literacy</em></span></a><em> </em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">WERA Public Radio, Arlington, Virginia, </span></b><a href="https://lynnborton.com/2020/09/30/the-news-literacy-project-with-ebonee-rice/"><span data-contrast="none">T<em>he News Literacy Project, with Ebonee Rice</em></span></a><em> </em></p> <p><strong>The Hechinger Report</strong>, <a href="https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-more-states-should-require-teaching-kids-how-to-read-the-news-and-spot-whats-true-and-whats-not/">More states should require teaching kids how to read the news and spot what’s true and what’s not</a></p> <p><strong>KCRW</strong>, <a href="https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/edu-mcasd/media-literacy">Can teaching media literacy in schools help fight misinformation?</a></p> <p><strong>Shondaland</strong>, <a href="https://www.shondaland.com/act/news-politics/a46355304/three-warriors-on-the-front-lines-of-the-war-against-misinformation/">Three warriors on the front lines of the war against misinformation</a></p> <p><strong>University of Barcelona’s “Dismantling disinformation. Learn to check media literacy summit for educators,”</strong> <a href="https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/jornada-desinformacio">Students are living in the most complicated information landscape in history</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-charles-salter"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Chuck-Salter_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Chuck-Salter_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Chuck-Salter_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Charles</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Salter</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>President and Chief Executive Officer</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <div class="team1-link -c:teal"><i class="icon-twitter -c:teal"></i> <a href="https://twitter.com/saltercrs" target="_blank">@saltercrs</a></div> <p>Charles (Chuck) Salter joined the News Literacy Project (<a href="https://www.newslit.org/">newslit.org</a>) as its first-ever chief operating officer in 2018 and was named president and chief operating officer in 2019. He became NLP’s second-ever CEO on July 1, 2022. Prior to joining the team, he spent nearly two decades working in the education space – particularly to advance opportunity in under-resourced communities – as a teacher, school leader, teachers union president and as a senior executive with several national education organizations, including: Teach For America in California, New York and Nevada; the Bay Area After-School All-Stars in California; and as regional director, vice president and superintendent of schools with Lighthouse Academies, a national, non-profit charter management organization, where he managed a group of 6 schools outside of Chicago that enrolled more than 2,200 students. Most recently before NLP, he was president and chief operating officer of BUILD Inc., a national youth entrepreneurship organization with programs in the Bay Area of northern California, Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York City and Boston.</p> <p>Chuck earned a bachelor’s degree in international studies and German with university and departmental honors from Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. He holds a juris doctor degree from the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington and has graduate certificates from Indiana University and Harvard University in nonprofit management, from Ball State University in business studies and from Cornell University in change leadership. He is a member of the Indiana Bar and is also a trained community mediator.</p> <p><strong>Video profile</strong>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFGj_AkLbCs"><em>Introducing NLP’s New CEO, Taking NLP from Mission to Movement</em></a></p> <p><strong>NLPeople Q & A, </strong><a href="https://newslit.org/updates/nlpeople-chuck-salter-president-and-incoming-ceo/"><em>Chuck Salter, president and CEO</em></a></p> <h3>Media Appearances</h3> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">School Administrator, </span></b><span data-contrast="auto"><a href="https://www.pageturnpro.com/AASA/104417-May-2022/sdefault.html#page/32"><em>Teaching Fact from Fiction</em></a><br /> </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">EdSurge,</span></b> <a href="https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-04-12-nonprofit-news-literacy-project-welcomes-former-educator-as-ceo-with-plans-to-expand?utm_content=buffer5287f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=EdSurgeBuffer"><em>Nonprofit News Literacy Project Welcomes Former Educator as CEO, With Plans to Expand</em></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">EducationWeek, </span></b><em><a href="https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-we-americans-risk-losing-the-ability-to-govern-ourselves-better-civics-education-can-help/2020/11">We Americans Risk Losing the Ability to Govern Ourselves. Better Civics Education Can Help</a> </em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">WOSU NPR affiliate, </span></b><a href="https://news.wosu.org/show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2021-01-28/americas-lapse-in-civic-literacy"><span data-contrast="none">America<em>‘s lapse in civic education</em></span></a><em> </em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">ABC 7 Denver, </span></b><a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/scripps-news-literacy-project-join-forces-to-promote-news-literacy-education"><span data-contrast="none"><em>Scripps, News Literacy Project join forces to promote news literac</em>y education</span></a><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":60,"335559740":276}"> </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">Cap Radio NPR affiliate, </span></b><a href="https://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2021/02/01/californias-challenge-to-modernize-government-technology-improving-civic-knowledge-and-engagement-in-the-us/"><span data-contrast="none">C<em>alifornia’s Challenge To Modernize Government, Technology / Improving Civic Knowledge And Engagement In The U.S.</em></span></a><em> </em></p> <p><strong>The Cap Times, </strong><a href="https://captimes.com/opinion/column/opinion-for-the-sake-of-democracy-teach-more-civics-in-schools/article_6f620fb2-0909-541c-bd3f-90e382a15175.html"><em>Opinion | For the sake of democracy, teach more civics in schools</em></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">Life of Gusto podcast, </span></b><a href="https://anchor.fm/augusto-andres5/episodes/17-Charles-Salter--President-and-COO--News-Literacy-Project-eqk3jg"><span data-contrast="none">Charles <em>Salter, President and COO, News Literacy Project</em></span></a><em> </em></p> <p><strong>The George W. Bush Presidential Center, <em>The Strategerist </em>podcast</strong>, <a href="https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/chuck-salter-news-literacy-project">News Literacy Project</a></p> <p><strong>United Press International</strong>, <a href="https://www.upi.com/Voices/2024/01/22/news-literacy-week-local-journalism-media-misinformation/2551705927806/">There’s still hope for local news</a></p> <p><strong>Chronicle of Philanthropy</strong>, <a href="https://www.philanthropy.com/article/philanthropic-efforts-to-fight-misinformation-should-start-in-the-classroom">Philanthropic efforts to fight misinformation should start in the classroom</a></p> <p><strong>National Association of Elementary School Principals’ Principal Magazine</strong>, <a href="https://www.naesp.org/resource/knowing-fact-from-fiction/">Knowing fact from fiction</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-darragh-worland"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Darragh-Worland_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Darragh-Worland_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Darragh-Worland_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Darragh</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Worland</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Vice President of Creative, Media and Marketing</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <div class="team1-link -c:teal"><i class="icon-twitter -c:teal"></i> <a href="https://twitter.com/darworland" target="_blank">@darworland</a></div> <p>Darragh Worland became the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president of creative, media and marketing in July 2024 after two years as the organization’s SVP of creative strategy and three years as the organization’s vice president of creative services and several years as the organization’s vice president of production and digital media prior to that. In her current role, Darragh oversees all external written and visual storytelling, messaging and communications for the organization.</p> <p>She joined NLP in 2011 as the New York program coordinator and was soon promoted to program manager. In that position, she rapidly expanded the New York program.</p> <p>Prior to joining NLP, Darragh was a journalist for several major news organizations, including six years as a writer, web producer and field producer at NY1 News, at the time, a local 24-hour news channel covering New York City owned by Time Warner, now owned by Charter Communications. She then covered the financial crisis as a senior producer at MSN Money, shooting and producing video features for the web.</p> <p>From 2007 to 2011, Darragh was an adjunct assistant professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she helped launch the Local East Village blog in partnership with The New York Times. In 2010, ABC News retained her to train its staff in digital video production. She has also designed and taught online and in-class multimedia courses and seminars for UCLA Extension, Mediabistro, PRNDI and other media organizations — helping journalists and communications professionals around the world keep pace with the changing media landscape.</p> <p>Darragh is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she studied English and drama, and has a master’s degree in journalism, with a focus on cultural reporting and broadcasting, from NYU.</p> <h3>Media</h3> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">What the Media, </span></b><a href="https://omny.fm/shows/what-the-media/2022-midterms-information-misinformation-disinform"><em>2022 Midterms — Information, Misinformation, Disinformation</em></a><b></b></p> <p><strong>New York Daily News</strong>, <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-dont-let-social-media-spoil-your-news-judgment-20200930-dz7i3p5bnzedlhrvbmlavr2miy-story.html"><span data-contrast="none">D<em>on’t let social media spoil your news judgment: A guide to navigating our information jungle</em></span></a><em> </em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">Cause Pods, </span></b><a href="https://causepods.org/podcast/misinformation-with-darragh-worland-of-the-is-that-a-fact-podcast/"><span data-contrast="none"><em>Interview with</em> <em>Darragh Worland of the </em></span><em>Is that a fact? podcast</em></a><em> </em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">Chicago Daily Herald, </span></b><em><a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20210127/the-news-literacy-project-keeps-pressure-on-fact-checking">The News Literacy Project keeps pressure on fact checking</a> </em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><b><span data-contrast="auto">Newsy</span></b></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><a href="https://www.newsy.com/stories/conspiracy-theories-linking-5g-and-covid-19-spread/"><span data-contrast="none">Conspiracy <em>Theories Linking 5G and COVID-19 Spread</em></span></a><em> </em><br /> <a href="https://www.newsy.com/stories/qanon-conspiracy-movement-grows/">QAnon Conspiracy Movement Gains Followers in Uncertain Times</a><br /> <em><a href="https://www.newsy.com/stories/covid-19-enabling-some-governments-to-limit-press-freedoms/">COVID-19 Is Enabling Some Governments to Limit Press Freedoms</a> </em></p> <p><strong>The Washington Post</strong>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/22/ai-red-flags-misinformation/">3 things everyone’s getting wrong about AI</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span></span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span></span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-katie-aberbach"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Katie-Aberbach_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Katie-Aberbach_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Katie-Aberbach_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Katie</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Aberbach</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Director of Marketing</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p><span class="mark39yjiatnx" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Katie</span> <span class="markyqlztsjvk" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Aberbach</span> is NLP’s senior director of marketing, developing campaign strategy and overseeing a team responsible for running the organization’s email, web and social media marketing efforts. She joined NLP in August 2021 and has a background in marketing, communications and journalism.</p> <p><span class="mark39yjiatnx" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Katie</span> worked as a marketing writer/editor at Wesleyan University, where she developed and executed strategic initiatives in support of the university’s mission. Previously, she was a senior marketing writer at the Harvard Art Museums, editor-in-chief at Culture magazine, and a senior editor at the Washington Post Express.<i> </i>She has freelanced for the Washington Post, Google and Zagat, among others.</p> <p><span class="mark39yjiatnx" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Katie</span> received a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College and a master’s degree in communication, culture and technology from Georgetown University.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-matt-arnold"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MattArnold_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MattArnold_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MattArnold_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Matt</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Arnold</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Executive Assistant to the CEO & Senior Manager of Development Projects</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Matt Arnold is NLP’s Executive Assistant to the CEO & Senior Manager of Development Projects. He joined NLP in July 2022, after spending almost fifteen years in higher education administration.</p> <p>He is a member of the National Board of Governors for the Human Rights Campaign—the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization—advocating for equality as a leader, ambassador, and fundraiser for the 501(c)(3) HRC Foundation.</p> <p>Matt earned a bachelor’s degree in music from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and a master’s degree in journalism from Roosevelt University in Chicago. He also holds a Certificate in Professional Fundraising from Boston University.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-aji-bakare"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Aji-Bakare-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Aji-Bakare-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Aji-Bakare-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Aji</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Bakare</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Major Gifts Officer, East</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Aji Bakare is the Senior Major Gifts Officer, East at the News Literacy Project.</p> <p>Aji previously worked as the Development Manager at State Voices in Washington, D.C., writing grants, managing a sponsorship program, and building and deepening relationships with a portfolio of traditional foundation and corporate supporters, and individual donors. Aji previously served as Senior Development Associate at State Voices, where she supported fundraising and helped funders and donors understand its vision.</p> <p>Aji has a master’s degree in Woman and Gender Studies from Towson University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Maryland. She was born in Nigeria.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-ellie-barnes"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Ellie-Barnes-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Headshot of Ellie Barnes" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Headshot of Ellie Barnes" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Ellie-Barnes-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Ellie-Barnes-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Headshot of Ellie Barnes"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Ellie</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Barnes</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Marketing Assistant</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Ellie Barnes is a Marketing Associate at the News Literacy Project. Ellie previously worked as NLP’s Communications Intern. Before that, she worked as a freelance reporter for her hometown newspaper, The Carlisle Sentinel, and as a marketing assistant at Wellspring Therapy Associates, a Florida-based counseling practice.</p> <p>Ellie is a graduate of American University, where she majored in journalism and French. She is currently pursuing a law degree from Northeastern University.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-theresa-berna"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TheresaBerna-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Theresa Berna headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Theresa Berna headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TheresaBerna-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TheresaBerna-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Theresa Berna headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Theresa</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Berna</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Product Analyst</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Theresa Berna joined NLP in October 2023 as Educator Success Manager.</p> <p>Theresa has spent more than 20 years in education, including teaching math and statistics.</p> <p>For the past four years, she has served as a digital learning specialist, supporting educators with digital tools and teaching students digital citizenship, digital literacy, and media and information literacy skills.</p> <p>In 2021, Theresa become an ISTE Certified Educator.</p> <p>Theresa holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a minor in computer science from Keene State College in New Hampshire, and she earned her master’s degree in mathematics for educators from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-ana-bitter"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ana-Bitter_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ana-Bitter_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ana-Bitter_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Ana</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Bitter</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Design Lead</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p class="x_MsoNormal">Ana Bitter joined NLP in February 2021 as a visual designer and was named design lead in 2024.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">She previously worked at Hawaii Business Magazine, an award-winning regional business publication, as an intern, and she served as the associate design director at Ka leo O Hawai‘i, her university’s student newspaper.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal">Ana attended the University of Hawai‘i at M<span lang="haw">ā</span>noa, where she earned her bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design, and a certificate in French language. While completing her degree, she produced work commissioned by the Hawai‘i Labor Relations Board and a piece that was exhibited in Tokyo Midtown’s “Open the Park” event, an international exhibition. In addition to her design and copy editing work at M<span lang="haw">ā</span>noa’s newspaper, she also served as a designer and student manager at the university’s campus graphics office, designing and producing promotional and advertorial materials.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-kim-bowman"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kim-Bowman_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kim-Bowman_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kim-Bowman_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Kim</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Bowman</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of Research</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Kim Bowman is NLP’s senior manager of research.</p> <p>After teaching middle school social studies for six years in Virginia, Kim earned her Ph.D. in curriculum, culture and change from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), focusing on gender equity and assessment design. During her graduate studies, Kim helped VCU’s Office of Alumni Relations launch and manage its online platform for networking and career advice. She also worked with VCU’s School of Education to support mentor teachers and student teachers in the field.</p> <p>Kim also has an undergraduate degree in history from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia and a graduate degree in teaching and learning from University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.</p> <h3>Media Appearances</h3> <p><strong>The Washington Post</strong>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/09/civics-class-more-than-memorization/">Civics class is more than memorization</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-freeda-brook"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Freeda-Brook_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Freeda-Brook_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Freeda-Brook_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Freeda</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Brook</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of Data and Impact</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p><span data-darkreader-inline-color="">Freeda Brook is NLP’s senior manager of data and impact. She joined the development team at NLP in March 2022.<br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" />Prior to NLP, Freeda worked as an academic librarian, most recently at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. She taught college students information literacy skills, including a course on the topic of fake news. As the Acquisitions and Resource Management Librarian, she managed the library’s research collection and acquisitions budget. She researched, published, and presented scholarship on feminist leadership and anti-racist practices in library work. <br aria-hidden="true" /><br aria-hidden="true" />Freeda holds a master’s degree in library and information science from the Information School at the University of Washington and a master’s in public administration from the Evans School of Public Affairs, also at the University of Washington. She graduated with honors from Grinnell College with a bachelor’s degree in political science.</span></p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-pamela-brunskill"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Pam-Brunskill_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Pam-Brunskill_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Pam-Brunskill_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Pamela</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Brunskill</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Director of Education Design</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Pamela Brunskill is a senior director of education design at NLP.</p> <p>Pamela joined NLP in August 2021 after 20 years of experience in education and education publishing. She was a teacher in Clarence and Williamsville, New York; a literacy coach at Enterprise Charter School; and an adjunct instructor at Bloomsburg University, Bucknell University and the University at Buffalo.</p> <p>As a literacy specialist and consultant, she worked to align and enhance K-8 writing programs in Western New York. She also founded and operated Authors and Educators, a company dedicated to developing curriculum resources for publishers and authors. Additionally, she authored five books for the education market and co-authored <em>Information Literacy: Separating Fact from Fiction</em>.</p> <p>Pamela holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from SUNY College at Buffalo and a master’s degree in education from the University at Buffalo.</p> <h3>Media Appearances</h3> <p><strong>The 74, </strong><a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/media-news-literacy-teaching-students-misinformation-week/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="11">As Misinformation Rages, Educators Focused on Improving News Literacy Turn to Outside Groups to Help Kids Parse Fact From Fantasy</a></p> <p><strong>The Horn Book Magazin</strong>e, <a href="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/The-Horn-Book-Magazine_NovDec23.pdf">Teaching news literacy</a></p> <p><strong>EducationWeek</strong>, <a href="https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/students-are-bringing-up-the-israel-hamas-war-in-class-heres-how-teachers-are-responding/2023/10">Students are bringing up the Israel-Hamas war in class. Here’s how teachers are responding</a></p> <p><strong>Encyclopedia Britannica</strong>, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/What-is-news-literacy-and-why-does-it-matter">What is news literacy (and why does it matter)?</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-nierra-coleman-jones"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NierraColeman-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Nierra Coleman-Jones headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Nierra Coleman-Jones headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NierraColeman-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/NierraColeman-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Nierra Coleman-Jones headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Nierra</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Coleman-Jones</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of Educator Engagement</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Nierra Coleman-Jones is Senior Manager of Educator Engagement for NLP.</p> <p>Nierra joined NLP in September 2023 after a career in the education sector. She taught eighth grade English language arts and reading intervention in Nashville, Tennessee, where she also worked on professional development for social-emotional learning.</p> <p>Nierra also curated video media for higher education textbooks and is currently volunteering with a college and career readiness organization.</p> <p>Nierra has a Bachelor of Arts in education studies from the Spelman College and a master’s degree in education with a specialization in curriculum and instruction from the University of San Diego in California.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-hannah-covington"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hannah-Covington_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hannah-Covington_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hannah-Covington_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Hannah</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Covington</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Director of Education Content</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Hannah Covington is NLP’s senior director of education content. She joined the education team in August 2020.</p> <p>Hannah has experience in both the newsroom and the classroom. As a journalist, she covered local government and breaking news at the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, the state’s largest newspaper. She has also written for the Tulsa World and The Oklahoman. Previously, she was an adjunct instructor, working with high school and undergraduate students at Tulsa Community College and the University of Tulsa. She anchored her writing classes in media literacy and rhetorical skills, training students to think like reporters to navigate today’s information landscape.</p> <p>Hannah studied literature at Oral Roberts University, where she majored in English and Spanish. She also holds a master’s degree in English from the University of Tulsa.</p> <h3>Media appearances</h3> <p><strong>NewsNation</strong>, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/war-in-israel/how-to-avoid-misinformation/">Misinformation is everywhere during war — here’s how to stop it</a></p> <p><strong>TVNewsCheck</strong>, <a href="https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/talking-tv-news-literacy-project-targets-a-threat-to-democracy/">News Literacy Project targets a threat to democracy</a></p> <p><strong>KRTV</strong>,  <a href="https://www.krtv.com/news/news-literacy-project/great-falls-feels-the-effects-of-local-news-crisis">Great Falls feels the effects of news crisis</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-kymberly-deane"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kym-Deane_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kym-Deane_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kym-Deane_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Kymberly</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Deane</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of Development</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Kymberly Deane is NLP’s senior manager of development. She joined NLP in May 2022 and is responsible for overseeing the stewardship of our supporters and prospects, while also enhancing the overall donor engagement experience.</p> <p>Kymberly previously worked at Part of the Solution (POTS), an anti-poverty nonprofit in the Bronx, New York, where she served as an institutional giving manager. She cultivated institutional relationships and managed a grant portfolio that contributed over $1 million annually to the organization’s program and operating budget. She also served as the organization’s grant writer.</p> <p>Kymberly majored in English with a writing concentration and minored in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Gettysburg College. She is also a graduate of Prep for Prep, a leadership development program in New York.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-dan-evon"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DanEvon_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DanEvon_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DanEvon_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Dan</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Evon</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of Education Design</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Dan Evon is a senior manager of education design at NLP.</p> <p>Prior to joining NLP in 2022, Dan worked as a reporter for Snopes.com, the internet’s oldest fact-checking site, where he monitored disinformation networks and addressed viral rumors. He published thousands of articles, generated millions of views, and (hopefully) made the vast information streams of the internet a little easier to navigate during his eight years there.</p> <p>Dan received his bachelor’s degree from the University of New Orleans, where he studied journalism, philosophy and, film history.</p> <h3>Media appearances</h3> <p><strong>NPR</strong>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1241657867/april-fools-day-online-misinformation">April Fools Day: How to avoid getting tricked online.</a></p> <p><strong>CBS News</strong>, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-misinformation-social-media-war/">Teens struggle to identify misinformation about Israel-Hamas conflict — the world’s second “social media war”</a></p> <p><strong>NBCU Academy</strong>, <a href="https://nbcuacademy.com/israel-hamas-war-sources/">War reporting is susceptible to disinformation. Here’s how to guard against it.</a></p> <p><strong>AARP</strong>, <a href="https://www.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/info-2023/twitter-confirmation.html?intcmp=AE-FRDSC-MOR-R2-POS3">5 Tips to tell if what you see on Twitter is real</a></p> <p><strong>The Washington Post</strong>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/11/16/top-trending-misinformation-tactics/">Top trending misinformation tactics everyone can learn to spot</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-shaelynn-farnsworth"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" alt="NLP Logo" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="NLP Logo" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img alt="NLP Logo" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img alt="NLP Logo" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" alt="NLP Logo"></noscript></noscript></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Shaelynn</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Farnsworth</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Director, District Fellowship Program</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <div class="team1-link -c:teal"><i class="icon-twitter -c:teal"></i> <a href="https://twitter.com/shfarnsworth" target="_blank">@shfarnsworth</a></div> <p>Shaelynn Farnsworth is the News Literacy Project’s director, district fellowship program.</p> <p>Shaelynn has over 20 years of experience in education. She spent the first part of her career as a high school English teacher in Conrad, Iowa, where she reimagined teaching and learning in her classroom and became a leader in the convergence between literacy and technology. Shaelynn focused on developing student skills in information consumption, creating innovative ways for students to demonstrate understanding, and inspiring healthy skepticism in the digital age. She was recruited by a regional state education agency in Iowa, where she was a school improvement consultant for seven years. Shaelynn supported districts throughout Iowa in the areas of literacy, technology, AIW, and systemic change. She was a member of the state’s literacy, social studies, and technology leadership teams.</p> <p>Shaelynn holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in English from the University of Northern Iowa.</p> <h3>Media appearances</h3> <p><strong>The 74, </strong><a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/media-news-literacy-teaching-students-misinformation-week/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="11">As Misinformation Rages, Educators Focused on Improving News Literacy Turn to Outside Groups to Help Kids Parse Fact From Fantasy</a></p> <p><strong>Governing</strong>, <a href="https://www.governing.com/policy/news-literacy-is-essential-heres-how-to-make-it-work-for-students">News literacy is essential. Here’s how to make it work for students. </a></p> <p><strong>The North Salem Post</strong>, <a href="https://northsalempost.com/north-salem-central-school-district-is-pioneering-student-standards-for-news-literacy/">North Salem Central School District is pioneering student standards for news literacy </a></p> <p><strong>The 74</strong>, <a href="https://www.the74million.org/article/media-news-literacy-teaching-students-misinformation-week/">As misinformation rages, educators focused on improving news literacy turn to outside groups to help kids parse fact from fantasy</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-abby-friedman"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Abby-Friedman_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Abby-Friedman_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Abby-Friedman_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Abby</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Friedman</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Director of Talent</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p class="p1">Abby Friedman is NLP’s director of talent.</p> <p class="p1">Abby joined NLP in April of 2022, after nearly a decade of experience in education and six years in human resources. At Democracy Prep Public Schools in New York City, Abby helped launch a program to guide all teachers to certification. At Uncommon Schools, also in New York, she coached staff and managers through performance issues and helped drive a diversity, equity and inclusion initiative by researching and educating colleagues on microaggressions.</p> <p class="p1">Abby received her bachelor’s degree. from Swarthmore College, where she majored in Latin and received Pennsylvania certification in elementary education. She also attended New York Law School.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-jostin-grimes"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Jostin-Grimes-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="headshot of Jostin Grimes" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="headshot of Jostin Grimes" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Jostin-Grimes-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Jostin-Grimes-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="headshot of Jostin Grimes"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Jostin</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Grimes</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager, District Partnerships, West</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Jostin Grimes is the Senior Manager, Senior Manager District Partnerships, West at the News Literacy Project.</p> <p>Jostin previously worked at Soundtrap for Education, where he was responsible for engaging and activating student collaboration and creativity for K-12 districts across the United States with the audio tool, Soundtrap. He also was responsible for facilitating learning for over 200+ educators and working with regional partners to support student voice and creativity through podcasting, storytelling and music making.</p> <p>Before that, Jostin worked as a program manager at STEM To The Future, a Los Angeles-based non-profit, and as a K-1 educator within the Kipp Atlanta Schools network. Jostin is a graduate of Morehouse College and works to connect with other leaders and stakeholders on how to support Black and brown students and communities.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-mary-kane"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MaryKane_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MaryKane_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MaryKane_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Mary</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Kane</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Editor</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Mary Kane is the senior editor at NLP, ensuring our content, including newsletters, updates, case studies and Checkology lessons, is clear, correct and readable. She joined NLP in April 2020, after serving as an associate editor at Kiplinger’s Retirement Report, a respected national publication, where she wrote award-winning articles on retirement finances and aging. She also is an adjunct professor in the graduate program at Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches Journalism and Publishing in the Digital Age, a media literacy course.</p> <p>Previously, Mary served as editor of The Washington Independent, a pathbreaking online site, and spent a year as an Alicia Patterson Fellow, one of journalism’s highest honors. As a freelancer, she edited or wrote for The Washington Post, Reuters, Politico, BillMoyers.com, Crain’s Chicago Business, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, National Geographic News, The E.W. Scripps Company, and other publications. She is a former national correspondent for Newhouse News Service, and she shared in a George Polk award for a Southern Exposure magazine issue on subprime lending.</p> <p>Mary is a University of Pittsburgh graduate with a B.A. in English and Rhetoric.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-alex-koval"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AlexKoval-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AlexKoval-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AlexKoval-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Alex</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Koval</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Software Engineer</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Alex Koval is a Senior Software Engineer at the News Literacy Project.</p> <p>Alex joined NLP after nearly a decade of expertise in software development, cloud infrastructure, and technical leadership. His background includes education, healthcare, SaaS, and the nonprofit arts. He has worked across the entire technical stack, developing software for both web and mobile platforms, including healthcare plan procurement services, AI-powered hiring tools, digital classroom environments, and data analytics platforms.</p> <p>Prior to NLP, Alex served as Director of Technology at National Novel Writing Month, a global arts nonprofit, where he led engineering and cloud infrastructure strategy. He previously worked as a frontend engineer at Datapeople, a mobile engineer at Highmark Health, and a full-stack engineer at Duquesne University.</p> <p>Alex has a bachelor’s degree in literature and philosophy from Duquesne.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-andrea-lazar"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" alt="NLP Logo" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="NLP Logo" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img alt="NLP Logo" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img alt="NLP Logo" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" alt="NLP Logo"></noscript></noscript></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Andrea</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Lazar</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Director of Grants</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Andrea Lazar joined NLP in July 2020 as director of grants, responsible for managing and growing a portfolio of foundation and corporate partners in support of NLP’s mission and work. She became senior director in July 2022.</p> <p>Andrea came to NLP from the Pahara Institute, where she was the senior manager of development responsible for a $5 to $6 million annual fundraising budget. Prior to Pahara, Andrea built a successful foundation giving program across two states at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. She also has significant experience in nonprofit arts management. Andrea has founded and operated several businesses, as well as a small business consulting practice, and she continues to teach a graduate-level course on entrepreneurship for creatives at the University of Houston.</p> <p>Andrea has an MBA and an M.A. in nonprofit arts management from Southern Methodist University, and a B.A. from the Plan II program at The University of Texas at Austin. She holds down the Third Coast for NLP from her home base in Houston.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-sara-lewis"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sara-Lewis_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sara-Lewis_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sara-Lewis_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Sara</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Lewis</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of Operations</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Sara Lewis is NLP’s senior manager of operations.</p> <p>Before she joined NLP in July 2019, Sara spent 12 years working to improve educational outcomes for students in under-resourced communities, both as a teacher and as a nonprofit professional. As a Teach For America corps member, she taught social studies and English at Dunbar Senior High School in Washington for four years, then taught social studies at SEED Public Charter School in Washington and history at Elm City College Prep, a charter school in New Haven, Connecticut. More recently, she held several administrative positions at Teach For America’s regional office in New Haven and was senior office coordinator for the UP Education Network in Boston.</p> <p>Sara majored in sociology at the University of Michigan and received a Master of Arts in Teaching, with certification as a secondary social studies teacher, from American University.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-andrea-lin"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Andrea-Lin_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Andrea-Lin_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Andrea-Lin_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Andrea</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Lin</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Director of Design</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Andrea Lin joined NLP in April 2018 as its first in-house visual designer.</p> <p>She has done graphic design work for the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University and for KRPR, a Washington public relations firm. She also was a social media intern at National Geographic Partners and a public relations intern at a school district in Naperville, Illinois.</p> <p>Andrea is a graduate of American University, where she majored in public relations and strategic communications and minored in graphic design. She was the editor in chief of American Way of Life, a student magazine, and previously served as its creative director and public relations manager. She also was the co-chair of AU’s Student Media Board, an organization comprising 10 student publications.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-jake-lloyd"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jake-Lloyd_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jake-Lloyd_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jake-Lloyd_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Jake</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Lloyd</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Director of Social Media</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Jake Lloyd is NLP’s director of social media, responsible for engaging stakeholders, donors and other supporters, both current and new, and raising awareness of our mission.</p> <p>He joined NLP in September 2018 from DC SCORES, a nonprofit that serves low-income youth in the District of Columbia by building neighborhood teams that give young people confidence to succeed in sports, in school and in life. In his nine years there, starting as a communications associate and ending as director of digital communications and campaigns, he built its social media platforms from the ground up, established its presence in day-of-giving campaigns and led the development of a new website.</p> <p>A graduate of Albion College, where he majored in American studies and minored in journalism, Jake began his career as a sports writer for news outlets in Michigan and North Carolina. He initially worked for DC SCORES while serving as a volunteer for AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) and subsequently joined the organization as communications manager. In his spare time, he has covered college and professional sports events in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., for The Associated Press.</p> <h3>Media appearances</h3> <p><strong>Bridge Michigan</strong>, <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-hey-michigan-heres-how-counter-misinformation-election">Journalism protects democracy</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-patronia-marshall"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Patronia-Marshall-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Headshot of Patronia Marshall" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Headshot of Patronia Marshall" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Patronia-Marshall-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Patronia-Marshall-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="Headshot of Patronia Marshall"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Patronia</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Marshall</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Technical Lead</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Patronia Marshall is the Technical Lead at the News Literacy Project.</p> <p>Before joining NLP, Patronia spent a decade designing and implementing innovative digital solutions. He previously founded and led Savvy Inc., a non-profit design studio dedicated to crafting people-centric digital solutions. Before that, he made significant contributions to higher education institutions across North Carolina, building a variety of web, mobile, and enterprise applications. He also worked in the education technology sector with Amplify Education and got his start at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the nation’s largest university-affiliated research center.</p> <p>Patronia is a graduate of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-carol-mccarthy"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Carol-McCarthy_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Carol-McCarthy_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Carol-McCarthy_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Carol</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>McCarthy</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Director of Editorial Content</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Carol McCarthy combines journalism and education experience in her role as the News Literacy Project’s senior director of editorial content.</p> <p>She came to NLP in December 2018 from the University of Rhode Island, where she spent five years as a communications and public information officer, using a variety of channels to promote research, student and faculty achievements and programs at both URI’s main campus in Kingston and its Coastal Resources Center in Narragansett. She began her journalism career in Rhode Island, starting at a weekly newspaper and then working at The Providence Journal and The Newport Daily News. Following graduate school, she worked at The Prince George’s Journal in Lanham, Maryland. In 1994 she joined The Day, in New London, Connecticut, as a copy editor and page designer; over the next two decades, she advanced to the position of deputy managing editor and launched a successful women’s magazine.</p> <p>Carol graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and received a master’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of Maryland.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-susan-minichiello"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SusanMinichiello_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SusanMinichiello_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SusanMinichiello_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Susan</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Minichiello</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of Education Design</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Susan Minichiello is a senior manager of education design at NLP. She joined the team in August 2022.</p> <p>Susan spent a decade working as a reporter and editor at community newspapers in California, Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota. Previously she was the education reporter at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, where she won California Journalism Awards for her writing on equity in schools. Susan’s freelance magazine work was recognized with an honorable mention at the Eddie & Ozzie Awards. She also has a background in copywriting for nonprofit organizations and in editing textbooks for diversity, equity and inclusion.</p> <p>She studied English at the University of Montana, with a focus on creative writing. She is based in Northern California.</p> <h3>Media appearances</h3> <p><strong>The Fulcrum</strong>, <a href="https://thefulcrum.us/media-technology/news-literacy-project">Misinformation isn’t just coming from your cranky uncle on Facebook</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-eduardo-molina"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EduardoMolina-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EduardoMolina-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/EduardoMolina-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Eduardo</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Molina</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of District Fellowship, California</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Eduardo Molina is the Senior Manager of District Fellowship, California, at the News Literacy Project.</p> <p>Eduardo worked in the Los Angeles Unified School District as a social studies teacher for 10 years and served as Magnet Coordinator for nine years, successfully developing and implementing innovative programs. Eduardo is dedicated to interdisciplinary teaching and technology integration.</p> <p>Eduardo has a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State and a master’s in curriculum and instruction, along with his teaching credential, from the University of Phoenix. Eduardo also has a masters degree in educational leadership from California State University, Fullerton.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-karina-muranaga"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/KarinaMuranaga_Headshot_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="Karina Muranaga" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Karina Muranaga" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/KarinaMuranaga_Headshot_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/KarinaMuranaga_Headshot_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="Karina Muranaga"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Karina</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Muranaga</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Product Designer</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Karina Muranaga is NLP’s Product Designer.</p> <p>Karina has worked as an independent product designer and researcher on social impact projects, including a language revitalization app and a mutual aid platform. She is passionate about using human-centered design to build equity and inclusion. Prior to NLP, she worked at A Blade of Grass, an organization that supports and amplifies the work of community-engaged artists, where she designed digital, print, and in-person experiences.</p> <p>Karina is a graduate of New York University, where she majored in studio art. Her visual design work has been featured by the United Nations in a 2020 COVID-19 digital campaign and by the Center for Cultural Power.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-meghan-oconnell"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MeghanOConnell-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MeghanOConnell-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MeghanOConnell-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Meghan</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>OConnell</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Junior Software Engineer</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Meghan OConnell is a Junior Software Engineer at the News Literacy Project.</p> <p>Before joining NLP, Meghan worked at Clever, Inc. assisting K-12 school district administrators and application developers. Meghan started her career working in elementary schools in California, supporting students who received special education services.</p> <p>Meghan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in political economy, and earned a computer science degree from Santa Monica College.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-erin-olson"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Erin-Olson_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Erin-Olson_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Erin-Olson_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Erin</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Olson</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager, State Partnerships</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Erin is NLP’s senior manager, state partnerships. She began her career as a middle school language arts teacher in Storm Lake, Iowa and then transitioned to teaching high school English in Sioux Rapids, Iowa. Her interest in meaningful technology integration led her to a position as a technology integrationist for a regional state education agency. Erin supported districts with technology integration, literacy, project-based learning, and STEM. She then returned to her home district to serve as an instructional leader and instructional coach.</p> <p>Erin holds two degrees from Buena Vista University: a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in Instructional and Curriculum/Effective Teaching.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-natalie-quan"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Natalie-Quan_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Natalie-Quan_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Natalie-Quan_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Natalie</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Quan</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of Development Operations</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Natalie Quan is NLP’s senior manager of development operations. Part of a team that manages data collection and organization related to NLP’s many stakeholders and programs, her focus is on fundraising operations and analytics.</p> <p>Before joining NLP in October 2018, she worked for BUILD, a national youth entrepreneurship program based in Redwood City, California, where she was most recently national grants manager. In that role she managed a portfolio of more than 100 grants, ranging from $5,000 to $4 million, and was the lead author on eight proposals that resulted in grant awards totaling more than $4 million (including one of $1.5 million).</p> <p>A graduate of UCLA, where she majored in communication studies, Natalie has a law degree from the University of Southern California and practiced civil litigation in Los Angeles and San Francisco before turning her abilities to the nonprofit sector. She also has a master’s degree in nonprofit management from Northeastern University.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-alee-quick"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Alee-Quick_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Alee-Quick_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Alee-Quick_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Alee</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Quick</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Director of Community Engagement</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Alee Quick is NLP’s director of community engagement.</p> <p>She previously oversaw marketing and public relations for the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank named for and founded by the late senator from Illinois. Before that, she was the editor of The Southern Illinoisan newspaper in Carbondale, Illinois, where she worked in the newsroom for more than six years. She was also a fundraiser for USA Rugby and led marketing and communications at Emriver, Inc., which builds river models for schools, museums and labs.</p> <p>She has two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Missouri: one in journalism and one in Spanish.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-bob-robertson-boyd"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bob-Robertson_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="Bob Robertson-Boyd headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Bob Robertson-Boyd headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bob-Robertson_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bob-Robertson_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="Bob Robertson-Boyd headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Bob</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Robertson-Boyd</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Vice President of Product</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Bob Robertson-Boyd joined NLP in February 2024 as vice president of product.</p> <p>Bob has spent more than 20 years building and supporting websites, digital platforms and applications. His previous experience includes supporting local news in some of the first online newspaper ventures at CompuServe and AOL, building social networking and mobile applications for libraries and universities, supporting a nationwide K-12 web application platform and building enterprise-level products for several Fortune 100 companies.</p> <p>Bob also has led and coached numerous product management teams and corporate clients, including American Electric Power and Cardinal Health.</p> <p>Bob graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor’s degree in political science.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-brittney-smith"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BrittneySmith_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BrittneySmith_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BrittneySmith_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Brittney</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Smith</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of District Partnerships – East</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Brittney Smith is a senior manager of district partnerships (east) at NLP.</p> <p>Brittney joined NLP in July 2022 after eight years of teaching life science in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a high school teacher to diverse populations of students, including English Language Learners In her tenure as science department chair, she focused on building partnerships with community stakeholders to enrich and improve students’ educational experiences.</p> <p>She holds a bachelor’s degree in biological science from the University of Cincinnati and a master’s degree in teaching science to adolescents and young adults from Mount St. Joseph University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in educational practice and innovation with a STEM focus at the University of South Carolina.</p> <h3>Media appearances</h3> <p><strong>Word in Black</strong>, <a href="https://wordinblack.com/2023/03/teaching-generation-tiktok-how-to-tell-whats-true-online/">Teaching generation TikTok how to tell what’s true online</a></p> <p><strong>Delaware Public Media</strong>, <a href="https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/education/2023/09/04/delaware-media-literacy-schools-education/70711762007/">Parsing fact from fiction: How Delaware is taking the lead in teaching media literacy</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-tracee-stanford"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Tracee-Standford-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="headshot of Tracee Standford" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="headshot of Tracee Standford" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Tracee-Standford-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Tracee-Standford-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="headshot of Tracee Standford"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Tracee</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Stanford</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Manager of Professional Learning</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Tracee Stanford is NLP’s Senior Manager of Professional Learning.</p> <p>Before joining NLP in 2024, she served as a program manager at Free Spirit Media, a nonprofit youth media organization, where she led teams of media educators focused on teaching essential journalism and solutions-based storytelling skills to youth in underserved communities throughout Chicagoland.</p> <p>Tracee also worked in broadcast news as a statehouse reporter covering government and politics in Springfield, Illinois. She was a reporter and producer for Alabama Public Television and produced morning news for WSFA 12, a local news affiliate in Montgomery, Alabama.</p> <p>As a high school journalism teacher within the Chicago Public Schools system, she made significant contributions to curriculum design, instructional methods and strategic partnerships.</p> <p>Tracee earned her undergraduate degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois, Springfield.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-amelia-thompson"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" alt="NLP Logo" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="NLP Logo" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img alt="NLP Logo" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img alt="NLP Logo" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NLP_Vimeo_600x600-e1554147976349-456x400.png" alt="NLP Logo"></noscript></noscript></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Amelia</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Thompson</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Front-end Developer</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="markqjambpu7n" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Amelia</span> Thompson is NLP’s front-end developer.</p> <p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="markqjambpu7n" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Amelia</span> joined NLP in February 2021 after working as a graphic designer and front-end developer at several companies, including Quadmetrics, a cybersecurity startup; Teal Media, a creative design agency; and Nuspire, a global managed security services provider. She also freelanced for NLP for about a year, coding and testing The Sift and Get Smart About News. <span class="markqjambpu7n" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Amelia</span> graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in informatics. As an undergraduate, she interned in the marketing department at Merit Network, a nonprofit organization. <span class="markqjambpu7n" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Amelia</span> is based in Chicago.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-christina-veiga"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Christina-Veiga_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Christina-Veiga_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Christina-Veiga_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Christina</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Veiga</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior Director of Media Relations</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>As the senior director of media relations for NLP, Christina Veiga drives press coverage and builds awareness of the organization’s work, mission and impact. She coordinates media requests for information and interviews and plays a key role in promoting National News Literacy Week and other NLP events.</p> <p>Before joining NLP, Christina was a journalist for more than a decade. She started her career at the Miami Herald newspaper in Florida, where she covered several local government beats and the Miami-Dade County public school system. She went on to Chalkbeat, a nonprofit digital news organization, where she wrote about school segregation and early childhood education in New York City.</p> <p>Christina earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Florida International University.</p> <h3>Media appearances</h3> <p><strong>BronxNet</strong>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2mGXgWcao">Concerns about AI and deepfakes in the 2024 election</a></p> <p><strong>Poynter</strong>, <a href="https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/jouranlism-artificial-intelligence-ethical-uses/">To build trust in the age of AI, journalists need new standards and disclosures</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-lourdes-venard"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Lourdes-Venard_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Lourdes-Venard_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Lourdes-Venard_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Lourdes</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Venard</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Education Editor</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Lourdes Venard joined NLP in August 2022 as education editor after serving as a digital editor for Pearson.</p> <p>With a background in journalism and education, Lourdes has worked as a copy editor for several major newspapers, including The Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Newsday. She taught news literacy to college students at Stony Brook University in New York and currently teaches editing to online students at the University of California San Diego’s Division of Extended Studies. She also serves as lead instructor at U.C. San Diego, creating new classes and revising current ones.</p> <p>Lourdes earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Miami and holds a master’s degree from the University of Missouri.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-alexa-volland"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Alexa_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Alexa_820x720-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Alexa_820x720-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Alexa</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Volland</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Video Producer</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Alexa Volland is NLP’s video producer. Prior to joining NLP in August 2022, she was the youth programming manager for The Poynter Institute’s digital media literacy initiative, MediaWise. There, she specialized in fact-checking, social media mis- and disinformation and connecting with young audiences. While at MediaWise, Alexa served as the editor of the Teen Fact-Checking Network, a student-led newsroom that produces fact-checking videos for social media.</p> <p>She came to NLP with both newsroom and classroom experience, having worked in local journalism at the Tampa Bay Times and as a journalism teacher in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida.</p> <h3>Media appearances</h3> <p><strong>AARP</strong>, <a href="https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2024/reverse-image-search-for-fake-photos.html">How to tell if an online photo is fake</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="staff-lauren-wolbaum"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 87.7192982456%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LaurenWolbaum-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LaurenWolbaum-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LaurenWolbaum-820x720-1-456x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Lauren</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Wolbaum</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Digital Marketing Manager</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Lauren Wolbaum is the Digital Marketing Manager at the News Literacy Project.</p> <p>Lauren has worked for more than 10 years in nonprofit marketing and communications, most recently at the Pike Place Market Foundation in Seattle, where she highlighted the social service impact of the city’s most visited attraction and developed stories exploring the region’s social and economic history.</p> <p>Previously, she worked in nonprofit musical theatre throughout the Seattle area, with marketing roles at Village Theatre and The 5th Avenue Theatre.</p> <p>She has a bachelor’s degree in business sdministration with a concentration in marketing from Seattle Pacific University.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tabbed1-tab" id="bod"> <h2 class="tabbed1-header">Board of Directors</h2> <div class="team1" data-imagrid> <div class="team1-entries -grid" flex="wrap stretch"> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-whit-ayres"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhitAyres_800w-533x400.jpg" alt="Whit Ayres" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Whit Ayres" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhitAyres_800w-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WhitAyres_800w-533x400.jpg" alt="Whit Ayres"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Whit</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Ayres</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Whit Ayres is a leading Washington, D.C., political consultant with over 30 years of experience in polling and survey research for high profile political campaigns and associations. He is the author of 2016 and Beyond, which illustrates the ways in which new candidates, new messages, and a new tone can help Republicans win the presidency in the New America. As founder and president of North Star Opinion Research, a national public opinion and public affairs research firm located in Alexandria, VA, Whit provides message development advice and strategic insights to high level political clients. The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) named Ayres Republican Pollster of the Year in 2012 and inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2024. Whit’s comments and analysis appear in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and numerous regional newspapers as well as National Public Radio. Whit founded his company after a career as a tenured professor in the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina. Whit is a graduate of Davidson College and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-geraldine-baum"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-geraldine-baum-533x400.jpg" alt="Geraldine Baum" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Geraldine Baum" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-geraldine-baum-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-geraldine-baum-533x400.jpg" alt="Geraldine Baum"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Geraldine</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Baum</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Geraldine Baum is chief communications officer at PEN America, a literary and free expression advocacy organization. Prior to this appointment in July 2022, she was assistant dean of external affairs at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She previously worked for six years as senior vice president for communications and marketing at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a nonprofit that focuses on community transformation. Earlier, Baum spent more than two decades as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where she served as bureau chief in New York City and Paris and also reported from Washington. She began her journalism career at The Miami Herald and spent seven years at Newsday, where she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for General Local or Spot News Reporting in 1984. Before joining the NLP board, she was a member and the chair of NLP’s New York City advisory committee.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-tucker-eskew"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/eskew-banner800x600-e1528992522889-533x400.jpg" alt="Tucker Eskew" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Tucker Eskew" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/eskew-banner800x600-e1528992522889-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/eskew-banner800x600-e1528992522889-533x400.jpg" alt="Tucker Eskew"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Tucker</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Eskew</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Tucker Eskew is a founding partner at Vianovo, a strategic advisory firm with offices in Washington, Dallas, Austin and Mexico City. He began his career in politics as a college student, working on President Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign in 1984, and later spent eight years as press secretary for South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell. He was a senior communications advisor on George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 2000 and joined the Bush White House in 2001, serving as director of media affairs and director of global communications. After the Sept. 11 attacks, Tucker went to London as President Bush’s wartime communications representative to No. 10 Downing Street. He held a leadership role in the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign and in 2008 was counselor to the GOP vice presidential nominee. Tucker also serves on the boards of the Melanoma Research Foundation and Goodwin House, a retirement community in Alexandria, Virginia.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-eva-haller"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-eva-haller-533x400.jpg" alt="Eva Haller" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Eva Haller" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-eva-haller-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-eva-haller-533x400.jpg" alt="Eva Haller"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Eva</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Haller</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Eva Haller is a much-honored nonprofit leader and philanthropist. For the last three decades, she and her husband, Dr. Yoel Haller, have been devoted to social, educational and environmental activism. Earlier in her life, she was a co-founder of the Campaign Communications Institute of America, a highly successful consulting firm that revolutionized the use of telephone marketing by Fortune 100 companies and political campaigns. For more than 17 years, Eva served as board chair of Free the Children USA (now part of WE Charity), which partners with communities to work from within to break the cycle of poverty. She is a trustee of the Rubin Museum of Art and the University of California Santa Barbara Foundation and serves on the boards of the Creative Visions Foundation, Sing for Hope, Video Volunteers, Asia Initiatives and A Blade of Grass.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-peter-kadzik"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-peter-kadzik-533x400.jpg" alt="Peter Kadzik" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Peter Kadzik" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-peter-kadzik-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-peter-kadzik-533x400.jpg" alt="Peter Kadzik"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Peter</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Kadzik</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Treasurer</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Peter Kadzik was a partner at Venable LLP until his retirement in May 2022. He focused on the firm’s congressional investigations practice and worked closely with investigations and white-collar defense, litigation, and regulatory practices. From April 2013 to January 2017, he was with the U.S. Department of Justice, serving as the assistant attorney general in charge of the Office for Legislative Affairs 2½ years. Peter managed the department’s relationships with Congress, including the confirmations of Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general and James Comey as FBI director. He previously spent more than 30 years as a partner at Dickstein Shapiro LLP. His association with NLP began with its creation in 2008, when he led the application process for tax-exempt status as a nonprofit organization. He served as founding chair of NLP’s Washington, D.C., advisory committee, resigning in 2013 to accept a position with the Department of Justice. He rejoined the now-defunct NLP committee after leaving government service in 2017.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-melanie-lundquist"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Melanie-Lundquist-headshot-1.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Melanie-Lundquist-headshot-1.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Melanie-Lundquist-headshot-1.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Melanie</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Lundquist</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Melanie Lundquist is an activist philanthropist whose voice is as fearless as her philanthropic work. Melanie and her husband, Richard, have appeared five times on The Philanthropy 50, the annual list of America’s 50 most generous philanthropists compiled by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. They are signatories of <a href="https://givingpledge.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Giving Pledge</a>. Their gifts have helped transform non-charter K-12 public education and healthcare delivery, spur biomedical research and innovation, and propel efforts to combat climate change and save democracy. From Aspen, Bloomberg, Milken to POLITICO, Melanie is a much-sought after speaker at conferences and events – a true change agent who talks openly and authentically about “big bet,” maximum-impact philanthropy done with a focus to bring solutions and change to scale. Melanie is a member of the University of Southern California President’s Leadership Council and vice chair of the Board at the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. Melanie was named Philanthropist of the Year in 2019 by the Los Angeles Business Journal for driving systemic change. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and a doctor of humane letters from McPherson College.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-alan-c-miller"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/alan.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/alan.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/alan.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Alan</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>C.</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Miller</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal><a href="https://newslit.org/founder/" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://newslit.org/founder/')">Founder</a></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <div class="team1-link -c:teal"><i class="icon-twitter -c:teal"></i> <a href="https://twitter.com/alanmillerNLP" target="_blank">@alanmillerNLP</a></div> <p>Alan C. Miller is the <a href="https://newslit.org/founder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founder</a> of the News Literacy Project, the leading provider of news literacy education in the country. He established NLP in 2008 to give middle and high school educators the tools to teach their students how to separate fact from fiction in the digital age. Alan stepped down as CEO in June 2022 after leading NLP for 14 years. In that time, NLP’s offerings grew to also serve the public. As more readers and viewers engage online with media outlets, NLP continues to champion the development of smart, active consumers of news and other information and, ultimately, encourage participation in democracy. Alan’s 29 years in journalism – 21 with the Los Angeles Times – saw him earn more than a dozen national reporting honors, including the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Most recently, he received the 2022 AARP Purpose Prize and the 2022 EWC Distinguished Alumni Award from the East-West Center in Honolulu and was named a Washingtonian of the Year in 2020 by Washingtonian Magazine. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-walt-mossberg"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-walt-mossberg-533x400.jpg" alt="Walt Mossberg" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Walt Mossberg" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-walt-mossberg-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-walt-mossberg-533x400.jpg" alt="Walt Mossberg"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Walt</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Mossberg</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Vice Chair</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Walt Mossberg spent more than a quarter-century writing and thinking about technology, first as the creator of the Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal and then as co-founder and co-executive editor of the technology website Recode and columnist at The Verge and Recode. He began his journalism career in 1970 as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, rising to become deputy chief of the Washington bureau before starting the Personal Technology column in 1991. With Kara Swisher, another Journal columnist, Walt founded the technology website AllThingsD.com; they also were the co-creators and co-producers of D: All Things Digital, the premier annual technology conference that became the Code Conference after they left the Journal to start Recode in 2014. Walt retired in 2017, the same year that he was honored by the Gerald Loeb Awards, the most prestigious prizes in business journalism, with the Lifetime Achievement Award.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-molly-hill-patten"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/mollhillpatten.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/mollhillpatten.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/mollhillpatten.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Molly</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Hill</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Patten</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Molly Hill Patten is founder and principal of Zephyr Insights, an on-demand executive services firm. Through this work she is recruited by founders and C-suite executives to be their strategic thought partner, financial executive and operational leader. She is currently chief operating officer at Bowersock Capital Partners. Her previous roles include chief operating officer at Sitka, a healthcare startup committed to improving access to and delivery of healthcare across the United States, and chief financial officer at ONE, an international nonpartisan nonprofit that is campaigning to end global poverty and preventable disease by 2030. Molly has an extensive background in finance and business, including at Ideas42, a nonprofit that applies behavioral science to complex problems, where she was chief operating officer; Aledade, a health tech startup, where she was senior vice president of finance and operations; Revolution LLC, where she was vice president of finance; Exclusive Resorts, where she was vice president for financial and strategic planning; and AOL, where she was director of broadband. She was named Financial Executive of the Year by the Maryland Tech Council in 2017.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-abby-phillip"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/abby-phillip-headshot.jpg" alt="Headshot of Abby Phillip" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Headshot of Abby Phillip" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/abby-phillip-headshot.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/abby-phillip-headshot.jpg" alt="Headshot of Abby Phillip"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Abby</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Phillip</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Abby Phillip anchors <em>NewsNight with Abby Phillip </em>on CNN. She was previously CNN’s senior political correspondent and anchor of <em>Inside Politics Sunday</em>. She joined the network in 2017 to cover the Trump Administration and served as a White House Correspondent through 2019. In January 2020, she moderated CNN’s Democratic Presidential Debate in Iowa. She also anchored special coverage of <em>Election Night in America</em> surrounding the 2020 election. In January 2021, she anchored the <em>CNN Special Report: Kamala Harris: Making History</em> about the Vice President’s barrier-breaking career and the childhood experiences that helped shape her.</p> <p>Phillip previously worked at <em>The Washington Post</em>, ABC News and Politico. Throughout her career she has covered multiple presidents, campaign finance, lobbying, and several presidential campaigns.</p> <p>Phillip was named to the Time 100 Next list in 2021 and was the recipient of the National Urban League’s Women of Power award. She was raised in Bowie, Md. and is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in Government. When not on television, she spends time with her husband, daughter and their pup Booker T.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-liz-ramos"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-liz-ramos-533x400.jpg" alt="Liz Ramos" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Liz Ramos" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-liz-ramos-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/image-about-team-board-liz-ramos-533x400.jpg" alt="Liz Ramos"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Liz</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Ramos</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Secretary</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Liz Ramos teaches history and U.S. government at Alta Loma High School in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., where she has worked since 2005. As an active integrator of technology to help students seek out information and show what they have learned, she emphasizes media and digital literacies with her students and participates in a variety of Twitter communities and Computer Using Educator events with other educators. Liz began using NLP’s Checkology® virtual classroom in 2016 — first with her remedial students during the summer and then with her college prep and AP government students in the fall — and shared its benefits for both classes at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) annual conference in December 2016. She served on NLP’s strategic plan steering committee and led a teacher workshop about the virtual classroom at the NCSS conference in November 2017. In 2019 she was named Outstanding Secondary Level Social Studies Teacher of the Year by the California Council for the Social Studies.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-charles-salter"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/chuck.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/chuck.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/chuck.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Charles</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Salter</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>President and Chief Executive Officer</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Charles (Chuck) Salter joined the News Literacy Project as its first-ever chief operating officer in 2018 and was named president and chief operating officer in 2019. He became NLP’s second-ever CEO in July 2022. Prior to joining the team, he spent more than two decades working in the education space – particularly in under-resourced communities – as a teacher, school leader, teacher union president and as a senior executive with several national education organizations, including: Teach For America, After-School All-Stars and Lighthouse Academies. Most recently, he was president and chief operating officer of BUILD Inc., a national youth entrepreneurship organization with offices across the country. Chuck earned a bachelor’s degree in international studies and German with university and departmental honors from Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. He holds a juris doctor degree from the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington and has graduate certificates from Indiana University and Harvard University in nonprofit management and planning, from Ball State University in business studies and from Cornell University in change leadership. He is a member of the Indiana Bar and is also a trained community mediator.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-karen-wickre"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/KW-HelenaPrice-vest-533x400.png" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/KW-HelenaPrice-vest-533x400.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/KW-HelenaPrice-vest-533x400.png" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Karen</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Wickre</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Chair</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p>Karen Wickre is a longtime communications strategist and editor. Based in Silicon Valley, she spent a total of 15 years at Google and Twitter before forming KVOX Media, a business communications consultancy, in 2016. She advises top technology businesses and agencies on their editorial strategies and company culture. As editorial director at Google for nine years, she managed a growing network of Google’s owned content — its network of public blogs and social media accounts — which reach tens of millions of people around the world and held a similar role at Twitter. Karen is also a longtime supporter of journalism and journalists. She is vice chair of the NLP board and chair of the Board of Visitors for the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships program at Stanford University. She is also the author of Taking the Work Out of Networking: Your Guide to Making and Keeping Great Connections (Simon & Schuster, 2019).</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="bod-catherine-woodard"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/woodard-533x400.jpg" alt="Catherine Woodard headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Catherine Woodard headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/woodard-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/woodard-533x400.jpg" alt="Catherine Woodard headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Catherine</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Woodard</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Catherine Woodard is a poet, nonprofit strategist, and former newspaper reporter and digital news editor. She is the author of <em>Opening the Mouth of the Dead,</em> a narrative story in poems published in 2017 as a limited edition book art and paperback. She is president of the Poetry Society of America and a former president of Artists Space for emerging artists. She is a board member of Press Pass NYC, which provides public high schools free resources to start sustainable student newspapers. She began her journalism career at the Fort Worth Star Telegram<em>.</em> As a reporter at New York Newsday and Newsday, she won public service awards for investigative stories about HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant TB, and tax policies that cheated under-resourced school districts. She previously chaired NLP’s New York Advisory Committee and served on its National Journalism Advisory Council.</p> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tabbed1-tab" id="njac"> <h2 class="tabbed1-header">National Journalism Advisory Council</h2> <p class="njac-description">The National Journalism Advisory Council spearheads the expansion of NLP’s engagement with news organizations and journalists, networks with new partners and supporters, amplifies NLP’s voice and helps news organizations work to build trust with various communities.</p> <div class="team1" data-imagrid> <div class="team1-entries -grid" flex="wrap stretch"> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-nicole-avery-nichols"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/avery-nichols-533x400.jpg" alt="Avery Nichols headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Avery Nichols headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/avery-nichols-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/avery-nichols-533x400.jpg" alt="Avery Nichols headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Nicole</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Avery</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Nichols</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Editor-in-chief, Detroit Free Press</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-sarabeth-berman"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/berman-533x400.jpg" alt="Sarah Berman headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Sarah Berman headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/berman-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/berman-533x400.jpg" alt="Sarah Berman headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Sarabeth</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Berman</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>CEO, American Journalism Project</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-kim-brizzolara"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Brizzolara-533x400.jpg" alt="Kim Brizzolara headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Kim Brizzolara headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Brizzolara-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Brizzolara-533x400.jpg" alt="Kim Brizzolara headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Kim</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Brizzolara</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Documentarian and film producer<br>Former journalist</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-peter-canellos"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/peterc-njac-533x400.jpg" alt="Headshot of Peter Canellos." /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Headshot of Peter Canellos." data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/peterc-njac-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/peterc-njac-533x400.jpg" alt="Headshot of Peter Canellos."></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Peter</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Canellos</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Managing editor for enterprise, POLITICO<br>Former executive editor, POLITICO</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-matea-gold"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Gold-533x400.jpg" alt="Matea Gold headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Matea Gold headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Gold-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Gold-533x400.jpg" alt="Matea Gold headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Matea</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Gold</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Managing editor, The Washington Post</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-stephen-f-hayes"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hayes.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hayes.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hayes.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Stephen</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>F.</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Hayes</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>CEO and editor, The Dispatch<br>NBC News political analyst</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-karen-heller"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Katherine-Heller-NJAC.png" alt="Headshot of Katherine Heller" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Headshot of Katherine Heller" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Katherine-Heller-NJAC.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Katherine-Heller-NJAC.png" alt="Headshot of Katherine Heller"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Karen</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Heller</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Former national features reporter, The Washington Post </br>Former columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-david-hiller"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hiller.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hiller.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hiller.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>David</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Hiller</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Former president and CEO, Robert R. McCormick Foundation<br>Former publisher, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-yukari-kane"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/kane.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/kane.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/kane.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Yukari</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Kane</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Founder and CEO, Prison Journalism Project<br>Former technology reporter, The Wall Street Journal</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-bill-keller"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/keller-533x400.jpg" alt="Bill Keller headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Bill Keller headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/keller-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/keller-533x400.jpg" alt="Bill Keller headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Bill</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Keller</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Former correspondent, executive editor, columnist, The New York Times<br>Founding editor-in-chief, The Marshall Project</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-scott-kraft"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/kraft-533x400.jpg" alt="Scott Kraft headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Scott Kraft headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/kraft-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/kraft-533x400.jpg" alt="Scott Kraft headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Scott</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Kraft</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Editor-at-large, Los Angeles Times</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-indira-lakshmanan"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lakshmanan-533x400.jpg" alt="Indira Lakshmanan headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Indira Lakshmanan headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lakshmanan-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/lakshmanan-533x400.jpg" alt="Indira Lakshmanan headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Indira</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Lakshmanan</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Ideas & Opinions Editor, U.S. News & World Report</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-jaime-longoria"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.1879699248%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/jlongoria.png" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/jlongoria.png" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/jlongoria.png" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Jaime</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Longoria</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Manager of research and training, Disinfo Defense League at the Media and Democracy Fund<br>Former senior investigative researcher and special projects manager, First Draft</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-joy-mayer"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/mayer.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/mayer.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/mayer.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Joy</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Mayer</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Director, Trusting News</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-tim-miller"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/miller-533x400.jpg" alt="Tim Miller headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Tim Miller headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/miller-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/miller-533x400.jpg" alt="Tim Miller headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Tim</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Miller</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Writer-at-large, The Bulwark<br>MSNBC political analyst and host of “Not My Party” on Snapchat</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-tracie-potts"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/potts.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/potts.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/potts.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Tracie</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Potts</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Executive Director, Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College<br>Former national correspondent, NBC News Channel</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-emily-ramshaw"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ramshaw-533x400.jpg" alt="Emily Ramshaw headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Emily Ramshaw headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ramshaw-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ramshaw-533x400.jpg" alt="Emily Ramshaw headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Emily</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Ramshaw</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Co-founder and CEO, The 19th*<br>Former executive editor, The Texas Tribune</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-alana-rocha"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rocha-533x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rocha-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rocha-533x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Alana</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Rocha</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Rural News Network Editor, Institute for Nonprofit News<br>Former multimedia journalist and partnerships director, The Texas Tribune</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-peter-sagal"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sagal-533x400.jpg" alt="Peter Sagal headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Peter Sagal headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sagal-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sagal-533x400.jpg" alt="Peter Sagal headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Peter</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Sagal</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Radio personality and author<br>Host, <i>NPR’s Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!</i></p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-craig-silverman"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20220913_headshot_Silverman_Alternate-533x400.jpg" alt="Craig Silverman headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Craig Silverman headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20220913_headshot_Silverman_Alternate-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20220913_headshot_Silverman_Alternate-533x400.jpg" alt="Craig Silverman headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Craig</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Silverman</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>National reporter, ProPublica</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-jodi-rave-spotted-bear"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/spotted-bear-533x400.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/spotted-bear-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/spotted-bear-533x400.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Jodi</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Rave</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Spotted</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Bear</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Executive Director, Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-adam-symson"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/symson-533x400.jpg" alt="Adam Symson headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Adam Symson headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/symson-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/symson-533x400.jpg" alt="Adam Symson headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Adam</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Symson</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>President and CEO, The E.W. Scripps Company</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-pierre-thomas"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/thomas-533x400.jpg" alt="Pierre Thomas headshot" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="Pierre Thomas headshot" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/thomas-533x400.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/thomas-533x400.jpg" alt="Pierre Thomas headshot"></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Pierre</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Thomas</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Chief justice correspondent, ABC News</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-amy-weisenbach"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/weisenbach.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/weisenbach.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/weisenbach.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Amy</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Weisenbach</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>Senior vice president, Head of Marketing<br>The New York Times</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="team1-entry" data-entry data-id="njac-lauren-williams"> <div class="team1-teaser -pb:2" data-equalize data-image> <figure class="team1-image" data-reveal> <span class="img1" style="padding-top: 75.0469043152%"> <img class="lazyload" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/williams.jpg" alt="" /> <span class="spin2"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span> <noscript><img alt="" data-src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/williams.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img src="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/williams.jpg" alt=""></noscript></noscript> </span> </figure> <h3 class="team1-name -ts:2"><span><span data-reveal="1"><span>Lauren</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Williams</span></span></span></h3> <p class="team1-position -ts:8" data-reveal>CEO & Co-founder, Capital B<br>Former SVP & Editor-in-Chief, Vox</p> </div> <div class="team1-details" data-details> <div class="team1-wrap -py:1"> <div class="team1-inner -mx:a -xw:1"> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="wrap1 -pt:3 -b:navy -c:gray -inverted careers-wrapper" id="careers"> <div class="wrap1-contain"> <h1 class="header1-title"><span data-reveal><span data-reveal="1"><span>Careers</span></span></h1> <hr class="thick"> <div class="frow"> <div class="col-md-1-2"> <div class="header1-intro" data-reveal><p>Working at NLP offers an opportunity to collaborate with a group of remarkably dedicated people on one of the most pressing issues of our time. Our people are our most treasured asset, and we recognize that individual perspectives and unique life experiences strengthen the quality of our work. We are committed to promoting and preserving diversity, equity and inclusion in everything we do.</p> <p><a class="button1 -teal-purple mt-10" href="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NLP-Values-and-Commitment-to-DEI.pdf">OUR VALUES</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-1-2"> <div class="header1-intro-right" data-reveal> <p><strong><u>Important Notice for Job Seekers:</u></strong></p> <p>Thank you for your interest in career opportunities at News Literacy Project. Please be aware that NLP does not engage the services of external recruiters unless it is explicitly stated in the job announcement. All hiring is conducted directly through our official channels.</p> <p>If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent News Literacy Project as a recruiter, please be cautious. These individuals are not affiliated with our organization. We encourage you to report any such encounters to us immediately.</p> <p>For a safe and genuine application process, please apply directly through <a href="https://newslit.org/about/team/#careers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">our official website</a> or recognized job portals.</p> <hr /> <p>NLP is a virtual workplace, meaning that most of our staff work primarily from home. We do have an office in Washington, D.C. and when collaboration is needed, we used shared office spaces. We thrive on a supportive environment where each staff member is made to feel welcome and is a valued member of the team. We deeply value diversity in the workplace and strongly believe that a diverse team enriches our organization and strengthens our ability to realize our mission (read/print NLP’s Organizational Values [<a href="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/NLP-Values.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PDF</a>] and Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [<a href="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Commitment-to-DEI.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PDF</a>]).</p> <div class="read-more-toggle"> <p>While we are extremely mission-driven, we still take time to have fun.</p> <p>Current staff agree:</p> <p>“NLP has given me the opportunity to grow in ways I couldn’t have imagined and the flexibility to maintain a good work/life balance.”</p> <p>“As a veteran, I know how important it is to work toward a larger goal with an exemplary team. At NLP I get both, and my love for working in administration is connected to a mission that truly matters.”</p> <p>While working at NLP, you can expect all this, along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes:</p> <ul> <li>Competitive salaries based on experience and position.</li> <li>401(k) plan with annual employer match.</li> <li>Medical, dental and vision insurance and employer-funded HSA.</li> <li>Annual professional development funds for each employee.</li> <li>Generous PTO including paid holidays, floating personal days, vacation days and sick days.</li> <li>Potential for annual performance-based raises and bonuses.</li> <li>Flexible virtual work environment supporting a positive work/life balance.</li> </ul> <p>For an overview of our generous benefits package, check out our HR benefits summary (<a href="https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FY25_Summary_of_Staff-Benefits.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PDF</a>). Browse through our open positions to see if you (or someone you know) might be a fit. You can submit your résumé <a href="https://bit.ly/NLPJobs">here</a> for general consideration. All submitted résumés are kept on file for six months.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="frow" data-reveal> <div class="col-md-1-1 text-center"> <p class="py-10 text-center read-more">Read More</p> <div class="chevron-arrow"></div> <hr> </div> </div> <div class="frow" data-reveal> <div class="row-md-1-1"> <h2 class="py-60">Current Positions</h2> </div> </div> <div class="steam1" data-loadmore> <div class="stream1-entries loadmore-content-stream frow gutters" data-entries> <article class="careers-item col-md-1-2" data-reveal="2b"> <h3 class="teaser1-title -ts:2 -as:1"><a href="https://newslit.org/about/careers/position-senior-major-gifts-officer-west-3/"><span data-reveal="1"><span>Position:</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Senior</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Major</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Gifts</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Officer,</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>West</span></span></a></h3> <div class="teaser1-wrap" flex="column" self="none"> <span class="teaser1-intro -mb:1" data-reveal><p>Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Development, this newly created position is a senior frontline fundraiser who will manage a West-coast based portfolio and closely support NLP’s founder, CEO, and other senior leaders on priority donor and partner relationships.</p> </span> <p class="teaser1-meta -mt:a -as:1" flex="wrap between"> <span data-reveal></span> </p> </div> </article> <article class="careers-item col-md-1-2" data-reveal="2b"> <h3 class="teaser1-title -ts:2 -as:1"><a href="https://newslit.org/about/careers/whatitslike/"><span data-reveal="1"><span>Working</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>at</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>News</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Literacy</span></span> <span data-reveal="1"><span>Project</span></span></a></h3> <div class="teaser1-wrap" flex="column" self="none"> <span class="teaser1-intro -mb:1" data-reveal><p>We thrive on a supportive environment where each staff member is made to feel welcome and is a valued member of the team. 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