Afrah Nasser, 33, is a Yemeni reporter and blogger who reports on human rights violations, women’s issues and press freedom in her country from exile in Sweden. Nasser began contributing to the Yemen Times in 2004 and worked as a reporter for the Yemen Observer in 2008. In 2011, as the uprising began in Yemen, she started blogging about human rights violations and gender issues in the country and received death threats. From exile, Nasser’s work has appeared in Al-Jazeera English, CNN, The Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Middle East Eye, and The Huffington Post. She has received several awards, including the Committee to Protect Journalists International Free Press Award in 2017. Nasser has a B.A. degree in English Linguistics from Sana’a University in Yemen and an M.A. in communication from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Maria Laura Carpineta, 35, works for the Argentina news agency, Telam. She edits, covers spot news and writes analyses as chief of the foreign news desk. Carpineta has spent 12 years covering crisis around the world, mainly while she was studying abroad, including during a Fulbright scholarship in the United States. She visited and wrote about the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel, the Ukrainian separatist region of Donetsk, and elections and protest movements in France, among other locations. She also contributed to a radio station for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, searching for victims of Argentina’s “dirty war.” She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master’s from Sciences Po in Paris.

Abdi Latif Dahir, 30, is a reporter for Quartz, a global digital website with more than 100 journalists covering stories from Europe and the United States to India and Africa. Based in Kenya, he covers the intersection of politics, business, technology and culture across eastern and north Africa. Among his articles were social media failing to deliver political change in Kenya, the impact of deadly attacks in Somalia, Tanzania’s attempt to close the gender gap in technology, and Egypt’s efforts to boost Africa’s tech landscape. He has traveled to neighboring Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Uganda, as well as Britain, Latvia and the US. He has a BA in journalism (summa cum laude) from the United States international University-Africa in Kenya and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Amitoj Singh, 32, is Associate Editor and Principal Anchor of India’s NDTV (New Delhi Television), which has a large English-language viewership. He has covered the fate of the besieged Rohingyas of Myanmar living in India, the protests of small children who lost their father farmers because of India’s agrarian crisis and conflicting plans to combat the excruciating pollution in New Delhi. He wrote about the scion of the Gandhi family, Rahul, who has 40 secret political agents to prepare for the next election.  He also covered the violence after a rape conviction that left 35 dead. Mr. Singh has traveled to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum and covered the presidential election in Sri Lanka, among other events. He has a BA in English with honors from Delhi University and was born in Australia.