Alejandra Xanic Co-Founder, Quinto Elemento Lab, Mexico City. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with David Barstow for their New York Times exposé of Walmart’s corrupt entry into Mexico.

Deobrah Blum Director, Knight Science Writing Program, MIT Guest presenter, UTV 2021 Acclaimed science journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers.

Steve Fisher Mexico-based investigative reporter with a focus on criminal justice and organized crime. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and more.

Alice Driver Independent journalist based between Mexico City and Arkansas. Author of More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2015)

Dudley Althause Independent reporter covering Mexico, Latin America and beyond for over three decades. Frequent contributor to he Wall Street Journal. Nominee for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his articles on the cholera epidemic in Peru and Mexico.

Marcela Turati Co-Founder, Quinto Elemento Lab, Mexico City. Award-winning investigative journalist based in Mexico. Author of Cross Fire: Victims Trapped in the War on Drugs

Carrie Kahn National Public Radio’s correspondent for Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Prize-winning freelance journalist, most recently recipient of the 2020 Cabot Prize from Columbia Journalism School, conversing with Angela Kocherga, news director and correspondent for public radio station KTEP, El Paso.