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Kevin Douglas Grant is The GroundTruth Project’s Co-founder and Chief Content Officer, as well as Vice President, Strategic Initiatives of Report for America and Report for the World.

Previously Senior Editor of Special Reports at GlobalPost, he has led reporting projects around the world and his work has been recognized by the Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University and Online Journalism Awards among others.  Over the last 10 years, he has helped to support more than 300 reporting fellows producing in-depth work on social justice issues in more than 50 countries.

Grant is a recent graduate of the Media Transformation Challenge at Poynter, and is presently working on a project about religious leaders worldwide as a journalism fellow at USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

He holds an M.A. in Digital Journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and the founding Executive Editor of Annenberg’s pioneering news organization Neon Tommy. Grant is also the former Operations Director of semantic news aggregator Inform.com.

Grant is currently based in Washington, D.C., where he serves as a capstone adviser and adjunct professor of journalism at Georgetown University.

Anna Rose Layden is a freelance photojournalist in Washington, D.C. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Reuters, Getty Images and  Bloomberg News. Primarily covering U.S. politics, Anna has spent the first year of her professional career documenting the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and White House. After graduating from RIT in December 2021, she began her career in Washington as the photography intern at The Hill in February 2022. She has a strong interest in documenting elected officials, and the everyday Americans affected by their policy. Outside of the big white buildings, she finds herself working on stories surrounding immigration, the empowerment of women, religion and family.

Jenna Cohen graduated in May from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and is the first undergraduate to be named a Roy W. Howard investigative fellow.  She attended WJMC as a National Youth Correspondent in 2017 (go ThinkPink!) and returned as a marketing intern in 2018. Specializing in web design, data, and graphics, she has since contributed to the award-winning investigations completed by The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism.

In the summer of 2020, during the height of the pandemic, she worked on website production and motion graphics for Nowhere To Go, an investigation highlighting the criminalization of homelessness, the lack of enforcement of states’ eviction moratoriums and how public housing evictions leave people on the street. Most recently, she designed and developed the website for Printing Hate – a six-month investigation into how white-owned newspapers historically incited racial terror during the Jim Crow era. She also produced a mini-documentary on the racial massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, outlining how white-owned newspapers fueled one of the largest massacres of Black people in U.S. history.

She has also worked as a designer for Capital News Service at the University of Maryland, Investigative Editing Corps and the LEAD1 Association. She will join the PBS NewsHour in July.

After attending WJMC in the summer of 2017, Collin Cope gained a newfound appreciation for the art of journalism and media production. Meeting many new friends, and even a few future colleagues, Collin’s time with WJMC encouraged him to attend George Mason for his Bachelor of Arts in Communication. With experience writing and editing for George Mason’s student-run newspaper, as well as freelancing for local outlet The Fairfax County Times, Collin emphasizes the importance of varied experience and a general sense of curiosity when reporting.