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Giada Santana is an Italian – Dominican journalist based in Paris, focused on stories at the intersection of social justice and climate. Santana has a passion for audio stories, but works in print and video, as well. She recently published a multimedia, cross border investigation regarding the impact of hotter temperatures on the living and working conditions of agricultural workers in Spain and Italy.

Twitter: @giada_santana

Hanna Jarzabek lived in Geneva between 1996 and 2008, where she finished her Master’s in Political Science and worked as an analyst-political scientist, preparing reports on refugees for UN agencies such as UNRWA, OCHA, UNCTAD. She developed her passion for documentary photography on trips to the Philippines, the Gaza Strip and Iran (2001, 2002-2003 and 2008 respectively). Based in Spain since 2008, Jarzabek combines her work as a documentary photographer and freelance photojournalist with teaching at the EFTI International Center for Photography and Film (Madrid). Her reports were published in El País, Newsweek Japan, XL Semanal, BuzzFeed News, L’Obs, Internazionale, Equal Times, 5W magazine, Interviú, Le Temps Magazine, 7k magazine, Gazeta Wyborcza, and Polityka, among others.

Photo by: Ana Valiño

Twitter: @HannaJarzabek
Instagram: @hanna_jar

Albert Lores is a Spanish photojournalist, based in Kyiv, Ukraine since 2017. He contributes regularly to Le Figaro and El Mundo, and has been reporting on the Russo-Ukrainian war since 2014. His work has also been published in outlets like Vice, Liberation, Delft, and Tagesspiegel among others. Before his focus on Ukraine, Albert covered areas including Indian-controlled Kashmir, Kachin State in Myanmar, Transnistria in Moldova and Abkhazia in Georgia. His photographs have been exhibited in several venues across Europe.

Twitter: @lores_albert

Louis Goddard is co-founder of Data Desk, an investigative consultancy, where he leads the research function. He previously worked at Global Witness and The Times of London producing data-driven investigations, including as part of a high-impact campaign against Russian fossil fuel exports. He studied at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and has a PhD from the University of Sussex.

Twitter: @ltrgoddard

Stanislau Ivashkevich is the founder of Belarusian Investigative Center (registered in Czech Republic), producing over a dozen of investigations of corruption per year.

Stanislau Ivashkevich received national Free Word awards for a journalistic investigation in 2018, 2019 and 2020 (annual competition held by Belarusian Association of Journalists) and Show of the Year award (2019) from Belsat TV for the investigative TV program. In journalism since 2009. Before engaging in journalism Stanislau worked for market intelligence companies Euromonitor International Plc and Marcus Evans Plc.

After the 2020 presidential election in Belarus, Stanislau went missing for a few days. The independent journalist was incarcerated for alleged unlafwul activities. He spent days in a prison cell that fits 3 people. Then, it hosted 13 detainees, some of them injured by the security forces. For two days, all these people received no food, apart a single loaf of bread for all of them. Stanislau was released from custody after the journalist community undertook active efforts to seek his release. He was fined for participating in ‘unsanctioned activities’. The court refused to look at Stanislau’s evidence on the fact that all he was doing was reporting.

Twitter: @StasIvasBIC

Tina Xu is a journalist based in Berlin creating in-depth immersive multimedia experiences. In 2023, she coordinated a cross-border investigative team of ten journalists reporting in eight countries for a VR interactive on the proliferation of unmarked graves of people who lose their lives trying to come to Europe. She has been nominated for the Refugee Reporting Award from One World Media, the Innovation Award of the European Press Prize. She received the Excellence in Environmental Reporting Award from the Society of Publishers in Asia. She nerds out about how innovative forms of storytelling can imbue age-old journalistic issues with increased human depth and contextual richness.

Twitter: @tinayingxu

Benjamin Hindrichs is an award-winning freelance journalist from Germany. His coverage focuses mostly on the global far-right, migration, sexual violence, and human rights. He currently lives in Barcelona.

Twitter: @BHindrichs

Elena Ledda is an independent journalist from Sardinia who practises constructive and solutions-focused, narrative, long-form, and slow journalism from a feminist perspective around human rights related issues. Ledda is a professor of Social issues journalism and Ethics from an intersectional perspective at the BCN_NY Master Degree in Journalism (collaboration between Universitat de Barcelona and Columbia Journalism School). She also works as a journalism project manager and at present is the Southern Europe coordinator of the Oasis Project. In 2022-2023 she coordinated the IJ4EU and JournalismFund funded project “The Bankers of irregular migration.”

Twitter: @Ele_nedda

Marcus Pfeil is the CEO of Vertical52 GmbH in Berlin – the first news agency from space. Together with his co-founder Michael Anthony, he is developing a platform for searching, analysing and visualising satellite and radar data. In this way, they provide journalists, publishers and broadcasters with convenient access to space. They are also building a non-profit academy to enable journalists in exile or from countries with limited press freedom to uncover environmental crimes or human rights abuses. Vertical52 is supported by European Space Agency (ESA), Creative Impact Fund, WPK Innovationsfonds, IJ4EU, Journalismfund.eu, EJC, Medieninnovationszentrum Babelsberg (MIZ), MediaLab Bayern and Stiftung für Medienvielfalt.

Twitter: @MarcusPfeil, @Vertical_52