2025 Judges

Katherine Boo

Independent Writer

Graham Lee Brewer

Race and Ethnicity,
Associated Press

Sewell Chan

Executive Editor,
Columbia Journalism Review

Benjamin Davis

Chair, Department of Multimedia Journalism,
Morgan State University

Antonia Hylton

Correspondent,
NBC News

Ryan Christopher Jones

Photojournalist, PhD Student in Anthropology
Harvard University

Wesley Lowery

Executive Editor,
The Investigative Reporting Workshop

Kevin Merida

Independent Journalist

B.A. Parker

Co-Host,
NPR

Orion Rummler

LGBTQ+ Reporter,
The 19th News