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Holly Jones is a Presidential Research, Scholarship, and Artistry Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy, where she specializes in conservation biology and restoration ecology.

Cody Schmitz is a higher education professional who works in student registration and records at Northern Illinois University. He enjoys spending time with his family (specializing in dad-jokes), reading and writing, and playing the guitar for a devoted audience of one golden retriever.

Emily McKee is an environmental anthropologist who studies the ways in which power and politics shape our environments and the environmental benefits and harms different groups of people face. Water access and agriculture are two core topics of her current research. She has spent twenty years researching these issues in Israel-Palestine and ten years investigating them closer to home in the U.S. Midwest. She is the author of Dwelling in Conflict: Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging.

Daniel Zwerdling is a correspondent in NPR's Investigations Unit.

Margot Williams is a NPR News Investigations database correspondent. Along with her reporting, Williams works behind the scenes compiling, mining and analyzing data for investigative reports, ferreting for information, and connecting the dots.

Robin Young is the award-winning host of Here & Now. Under her leadership, Here & Now has established itself as public radio's indispensable midday news magazine: hard-hitting, up-to-the-moment and always culturally relevant.

Thomas Lu (he/him) is a producer for NPR's science podcast, Short Wave. The podcast is a perfect equation of curiosity, nerdiness and everyday discoveries.

Chris Benderev is a founding producer of and also reports stories for NPR's documentary-style podcast, Embedded. He's driven into coal mines, watched as a town had to shutter its only public school after 100 years in operation, and, recently, he's followed the survivors of a mass shooting for two years to understand what happens after they fade from the news. He's also investigated the pseudoscience behind a national chain of autism treatment facilities. As a producer, he's made stories about ISIS, voting rights and Donald Trump's business history. Earlier in his career, he was a producer at NPR's Weekend Edition, Morning Edition, Hidden Brain and the TED Radio Hour.

Parth Shah is a producer and reporter in the Programming department at NPR. He came to NPR in 2016 as a Kroc Fellow.