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Contact Melissa at mmboehn@ilstu.edu.

Rosemary Misdary is a 2020-2021 Kroc Fellow.

Ben de la Cruz is an award-winning documentary video producer and multimedia journalist. He is currently a senior visuals editor. In addition to overseeing the multimedia coverage of NPR's global health and development, his responsibilities include working on news products for emerging platforms including Amazon's and Google's smart screens. He is also part of a team developing a new way of thinking about how NPR can collaborate and engage with our audience as well as photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, animators, and graphic designers to build new visual storytelling avenues on NPR's website, social media platforms, and through live events.

Maddie Grindley is a photographer at The Vidette, the student voice of Illinois State University.

Steve Stein is an award-winning news and sports writer and editor. Most recently, he covered Tazewell County communities for the Peoria Journal Star for 18 years.

Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden's voice from her frequent work as a substitute host on NPR. As a journalist who has been with NPR since 1979, Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a storyteller and looks for the distinctive human voice in a huge range of national and international stories. She is the current Weekend All Things Considered host.

Isabela Nieto is a statehouse reporter for WBEZ. She started out at the station in 2025 as their statehouse reporting intern, as part of the University of Illinois at Springfield’s Public Affairs Reporting masters program. She rejoined WBEZ in February 2026, moving to Springfield, IL with her cat Petra.

John Powers is the pop culture and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He previously served for six years as the film critic.

Will Stone is a former reporter at KUNR Public Radio.