Ohio native Teri Berg is a longtime sportswriter and editor who has covered everything from the NFL to boxing to NASCAR. She and her husband, Kevin, have a son, Alex, who's a sophomore at the University of Iowa. They also have two dogs—a Belgian Malinois named Naton, and Bubba, a schlubby yellow Lab.

Maureen Googoo is a proud Mi'kmaq from Nova Scotia, Canada. She has worked as a reporter in print, radio and television for nearly 20 years in Canada, where she has devoted much of her career to covering Aboriginal issues. A graduate of Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Maureen is learning to combine her skills by specializing in new media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Anna-Katarina Gravgaard is a Danish-born journalist studying in New York on a Fulbright scholarship. She is a part-owner of two local newspapers in Copenhagen, "Kartoflen" ("The Potato") and "Strandvejens Lokaltidende." Anna has worked in journalism since she was 13 and is mainly interested in how media creates communities. She has an M.A. in English studies, has traveled in more than 20 countries and worked in Scotland and Belgium.

Stephanie Merry graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in poetry writing and Spanish. Prior to attending Columbia, she sold advertising for The Hill newspaper in Washington. She enjoys watching “The Office,” doing handstands in yoga class, poetry by Marie Howe and telling irreverent stories on her blog.

Lorenzo Morales is a Colombian journalist who recently moved to New York. He has worked as a senior reporter for Semana, the main weekly political magazine in Colombia, reporting primarily on the armed conflict in his country. He is also a frequent contributor to PiedePagina and Arcadia, two Colombian cultural publications. He mantains the blog El Agente Naranja and is fluent in Spanish and French.