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A conversation with Medill Dean Charles Whitaker and guests:

Antonia Cereijido , host and senior producer with Futuro Media. She was a producer for six years on NPR’s Latino USA. She has hosted podcasts for Mic and Slate. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Code Switch, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Coverage has ranged from a profile of the Mexican-American man who runs the largest and most controversial migrant youth shelters, to a deep dive into the controversy over Oprah's book club selection American Dirt. 

Corinne Chin, Senior video journalist at The Seattle Times and founder and leader of the newsroom’s Diversity & Inclusion Task Force . As a storyteller, she amplifies underrepresented voices through innovative online video projects like Beyond the Border, a series of visual stories exploring immigration and deportation; and Under Our Skin, an interactive documentary exploring the words we use – and misuse – to talk about race in America. Her work has been recognized by the Online News Association, Radio Television Digital News Association (National Edward R. Murrow Awards), NPPA Best of Photojournalism, Pictures of the Year International and more. Corinne is an International Women’s Media Foundation fellow and a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee. She is a graduate of the Poynter Leadership Academy for Women, the Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy for Diversity, the ASNE Emerging Leaders Institute and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University (MSJ and BSJ). She is a co-director of the Asian American Journalists Association’s affinity group Women and Non-Binary Voices, and she is a past president of AAJA Seattle, which you can join for dim sum (via Zoom) on the first Saturday of every month. 

 Tiffany Walden As co-founder and editor-in-chief of The TRiiBE, Tiffany Walden has impressively built a news organization that has become a vital piece of Chicago's media landscape and a voice for Black Chicago. She is a 2020 Leader for a New Chicago, and an award-winning journalist with bylines in local and national publications such as the Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Complex Magazine and Vice. Through her work, she demonstrates a fierce advocacy for systemic change, giving agency to under-represented voices in Black communities.