Marcia Parker is vice president, philanthropic partnerships at the New York Times. Prior to joining the Times in 2022, she was chief operating officer of Calmatters, a nonprofit journalism organization covering California politics, policies and personalities. More previously, she was executive director of content and audience engagement for Penton’s Technology news portfolio. She also served as editorial programming and audience development director at State.com, a global opinion platform, and was West Coast editorial director of Patch.com, AOL’s venture into hyperlocal journalism.

Kinsey Wilson is an executive with Automattic Inc., which produces the WordPress web publishing platform. He developed and oversees Newspack, a grant-funded technology initiative for small and medium-sized news organizations that simplifies publishing and drives audience and revenue. Prior to joining Automattic, Wilson held dual masthead titles at The New York Times, where he led a vast team responsible for guiding the company’s digital strategy and creating products. Wilson was previously editor-in-chief of usatoday.com and executive editor of USA TODAY.

John Adams is the executive director and editor-in-chief of Montana Free Press, which he launched in 2016. He started his newspaper career as the city government reporter for the Daily Jefferson County Union in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where he covered the City Hall, police, fire and local courthouse beats. In 2005 he joined the staff of the Missoula Independent in Missoula, Montana, where he worked as a staff reporter covering a wide range of issues including the environment, state politics and local politics. In 2007, the Great Falls Tribune recruited Adams to head its statehouse news bureau in Helena. For the next seven years, John covered state government and politics as the capital bureau chief.

Corinne Colbert is the co-founder and editor in chief of the Athens County Independent in southeastern Ohio. Prior to launching the Independent in 2022, she was editor at the Athens News, an alternative newsweekly, but was fired from that job eight months into her tenure for warning readers about misleading advertising in the publication. Her tweets about being fired went viral, inspiring a crowdfunding campaign that raised $18,000 to launch an independent nonprofit news organization in Athens County.  Her four-decade career also includes work in nonprofit communications and marketing, association publications, project management and consulting and teaching technical writing to engineering students. 

Mark Horvit is an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he teaches investigative reporting and is director of the State Government Reporting Program. He previously served as executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, where he conducted training in investigative reporting and data journalism throughout the world. Horvit worked as a reporter and editor for 20 years before joining IRE. He serves on the boards of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.

Jake Hylton is the founding executive director of LOOKOUT, an LGBTQ+ nonprofit news organization based in Arizona. Under his leadership, LOOKOUT has rapidly grown into a vital, trusted resource, demonstrating the power of community-driven journalism to fill critical news gaps. Hylton brings a unique, extensive experience in small business and creative arts, including theater production and carpentry, tech startups and in real estate. 

Yukari Iwatani Kane is the co-founder and CEO of Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national journalism nonprofit that equips incarcerated writers to tell stories that transform public understanding of the U.S. prison system. Under her leadership, PJP has grown from a grassroots publication into a national organization with more than 800 writers and 2,500 stories published across 44 states. Kane brings more than 20 years of experience as a journalist, including at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. 

Carla Minet is the executive director and editor at the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI). She’s done investigative work mostly on political campaigns, corruption, environmental issues and government affairs. For the past 20 years, Minet has worked as a reporter, editor and producer for radio, TV, print and online in Puerto Rico. At CPI, she has led teams that have won the IRE Philip Meyer Award for Precision Journalism, the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism at Harvard, the Aronson Award at CUNY, and the Izzy Award for Conscience Journalism at Ithaca College, among others. She is a member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and board member at the News Leaders Association (NLA).

Graciela Mochkofsky is dean of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. At the Newmark J-School, Graciela launched the nation’s first bilingual master’s journalism program, oversaw a groundbreaking project that in four years helped infuse nearly $50 million of city funds into NYC community media and, in her first year as Dean, secured a $10 million gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies and launched a fundraising campaign designed to make the school tuition-free. A native of Argentina, Graciela is also an active journalist. She is currently a contributing writer for The New Yorker and has worked as a political correspondent with La Nación in Argentina and as a columnist and blogger for El País in Spain. She is the author of seven books of nonfiction.

Gillian White is the Chief Revenue Officer and member of the founding leadership team at Capital B, a first-of-its-kind Black-led-and-centered nonprofit news organization. She oversees the organization’s development, memberships and revenue while helping to drive its strategic direction. Prior to joining Capital B in 2021, Gillian was a managing editor at The Atlantic, where she oversaw special projects, podcasts and editorial Atlantic Live events. She spent many years as a reporter and editor covering business and economics, and she began her career on Wall Street as an analyst at major insurance companies and investment banks.

Laura Frank is the Executive Director of COLab, the Colorado news collaborative. She pioneered collaborative journalism in Colorado as the founder of I-News, the nonprofit investigative news organization that merged with Rocky Mountain Public Media in 2013, the first such merger in the nation. She led the journalism team there for seven years, and is now leading 100-plus newsrooms in collaborative reporting through the Colorado News Collaborative.

Brant Houston is a co-founder of the Institute for Nonprofit News, which began with more than 20 member organizations in 2009, and he served as INN’s interim executive director in INN’s first year. He also has been active for the last 11 years in supporting many INN member organizations as they start up, providing organizational, fundraising and editorial advice. Houston is a professor and Knight Chair of Investigative Reporting at the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he oversees, CU-CitizenAccess.org, an award-winning newsroom.

Robert J. Rosenthal is one of the co-founders and former board member of INN. He is now on the board of the Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal and was CIR’s executive director from 2008 until 2017, during which time he expanded its staff from 7 to 70 . CIR/Reveal is widely recognized for the quality and credibility of its journalism and its constant innovation around storytelling and distribution. Rosenthal spent the bulk of his nearly 50-year career in journalism at The Philadelphia Inquirer, starting as a reporter, and a foreign correspondent and becoming its executive editor in 1998.