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Alicia Eakin

  • Georgia politics versus Hollywood and the impact on the state’s film industry
    • The Impact of Georgia’s “Heartbeat” Law
      • Feature 1: “Thrown Under the Bus”
      • Feature 2: Georgia on my Screen
      • Feature 3: “Kicking the Can”
      • Feature 4: A Home Grown Industry Fights Back

Paula Rallis

  • Hashtag Infertile – Influencers Open Up
  • The Cost of Infertility
  • Adoption – Not a Plan B
  • IVF Research – Lack of Funding Creates Gaps in Knowledge
  • The Surrogacy Boom – The New Normal in Family Formation

Joanne Ciccarello

  • After the fish have gone: the nation’s oldest seaport navigates a new future
  • Stocking up on dignity in healthy servings
  • A small museum dives deep into the nation’s history
  • Want to know about fishing? Talk to Angela!
  • Saving Fisherman: Video

Bree Carlson

  • Natural Gas: Small leaks, big problems
  • A Hostile Climate for Natural Gas
  • The Smell of a Tree’s Demise
  • Weston Audit Finds More Gas Leaks
  • The Future of Natural Gas

Benjamin Chacon

  • In Toronto, a Housing Crisis Looms
  • Tech’s Impact on Urban Housing Markets in Toronto
  • The Case Against Sidewalk Labs’s Smart City
  • The Fight Against Gentrification in Parkdale
  • The Rise of Illegal Rooming Houses in Toronto

Joshua DuBose

  • Dogs in Public Spaces: A problem for service animals and their disabled handlers
  • Emotional Support Animals: Form, function and fraud in the process of getting ESA documentation
  • Bark and Hold: How the L.A.P.D. Metro K-9 Unit develops, deploys and manages a squad of highly trained canine officers
  • To Soothe and Assist: Developing handler and therapy-dog teams for animal-assisted activities and visits
  • Keeping A “No Kill” Status: The challenges L.A. Department of Animal Services face in maintaining its save rate for dogs

Polikseni Manxhari

  • Coming from the South
  • Emily and Tyson: A Bond Formed with Love and Cheese
  • Finding a Forever Home and Staying There
  • Funding in Vermont Animal Shelters
  • Raising Money for Homeless Animals Through Woofstock

Joseph Alvarez

  • Veteran Challenges

Melissa Avstreih

  • Time is Running Out for Congress to Protect Autism Funding
  • Autism Comes in Many Forms, Not Just One: A Mom’s Journey to Find Help for Her Son

Christopher Benson

  • Bridging the Skilled Trades Gap
  • Is Competency-Based Learning the Future of Skilled Trades Education?
  • Educational Attainment and the Skilled Trades
  • Technology May be the Key to Attracting Millennials to the Skilled Trades

Sarah Dowland

  • The American Families that Hoped the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting Really Was About Russian Adoption
  • Podcast

Edlyn Lum

  • Learning for Life—Profile of Educator and Innovator Carmee Lim
  • Affordable Education or the Bottom Line? A Look at Phillips Exeter Academy’s Financial Balancing Act
  • A Message from the ‘Dark Side’—Speaking Out About Mental Health in Singapore
  • For Elite Singapore Parents, Getting into the Right School Is Anything but Child’s Play

Andrea Marquez Garcia

  • Amlo’s First Days in Power
  • Why Mexico Chose a Familiar Face
  • Morena’s Win Doesn’t Guarantee Its Survival
  • Morena Knows How to Speak “Millennial”
  • The Women Mexico Needs

Teresa Murphy

  • With Help from Friends, Old and New, Seniors Create Their Own Housing Future
  • Friends Close By—The Golden Girls Revisited
  • Harvard at 60: Getting the Journalism Education You’ve Always Wanted at Any Age
  • Hunting the Hunters: South Slough Old-timers Want Shooting Stopped

Abraham Navarro

  • The Local Impact of Climate Change (Capstone series I-V)

Claudia Paredes

  • Meet Dimitri Vegas, the DJ who made his dreams come true
  • Tech Helps EMD Thrive
  • The Laws behind Remixing 
  • Who goes to EDM festivals?
  • Women in EDM

Jessica Robles

Ana Cristina Sanchez

  • Rescue of the At-Risk Vaquita Porpoise
  • Predicting Toxic Algae Blooms As Ocean Surface Temperatures Continue Rising
  • Despite Strong Clean Water Laws, Over 90% of California Waterways Are Too Polluted
  • Is Destination the Answer to Water Supply Around the Globe in Times of Climate Change?
  • Violencia en San Feliipe por la “droga del mar”

Michael Sedwick

John Silvio

  • How to Make Sense of Health Statistics
  • “Feelings Come First”: How People See Risk
  • The Story of Gun Violence in America
  • We Need Violence Solutions, Not Just Gun Control

Gulshan Singh

  • Grassroot Movements Supporting Choice, Away from the Frontlines
  • Expecting the Unexpected: Pregnant Women in Texas Look at Their Options
  • Safe, Legal and Rare
  • World Voices: Wins and Challenges of Women in Three Geographies

Shelette Stewart

  • Authentic Leadership: How Christians Are Making It Work in Corporate America
  • Ballantyne Center for Dentistry: Relieving Pain for a Greater Gain
  • Convene: Business as Ministry
  • Christian Higher Education Has Been Experiencing Unprecedented Change. Here’s What Still Needs to Change.

Mikiko Suzuki

  • Recent Research Findings of Down Syndrome
  • Families and Special Needs Children Play at the Gym
  • A Mom and Her Child with Down Syndrome
  • A Mother of a Child with Down Syndrome: Finding Out Before Birth
  • A Mother of a Child with Down Syndrome: Finding Out After Birth

Mary Valek (Silver)

  • Shining a New Light on Airway Beacons
  • Remembering the Waning of Allentown’s Might
  • Albany’s Forgotten Erie Canal
  • The De-Haunting of Forest Park Cemetery
  • To Find the Forgotten

Eva Fedderly

  • New York City’s Kava Community Finds Antidote for Loneliness
  • When New Orleans shutters, a Street Poet Takes to Instagram for Pandemic Poem Therapy
  • New Orleans Vodou and the French Quarter Smudging
  • Brooklyn-Based Contemporary Artist Hosts New Orleans Couple for Virtual Studio Visit, Offering Solace and Inspiration
  • New Orleans’s Food Industry Takes Major Hit, But Finds Glimmer of Hope with its Resilient System of Support

Maria Kearns-Galeano

  • For Decades Drug Users Were Sent to Jail, Now Massachusetts Embraces Major Reforms
  • Diversion Programs Lead to Increased Bed Shortages
  • Amid Reforms Police Say “It Was Actually Easier to Catch These Drug Dealers Back in The Day”
  • Fifty Years Waging A War no Drugs, Dealers and Cops Agree: “It Will Never End”

Andrew Taylor

Overall title: Should owning a home still be a part of the American Dream for millennials and blacks?

  • A Dream Deferred for Millennials with the Housing Market
  • D.C.’s Expensive Housing Market, a Flourishing Economy and a High Unemployment Rate for Blacks
  • Convert Racism in the Black Home Buying Experience
  • The 2020 Election Will Have a Strong Impact on the U.S., and Blacks Will Be Most Heavily Affected
  • The American Dream of the Future Is Still to Buy a House, But Young People Should Consider Other Things in This Economy Now And in The Future