About Troubled Water

Fraser Allan Best | @FraserAllanBest

Hearst Fellow

Fraser Allan Best is a graduate student with the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Best is a Canadian journalist with a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Toronto. Best worked as an editor at “the newspaper,” an independent paper in Toronto. Best also hosted Leading Tone, a radio program discussing current affairs that was broadcast province-wide from a Toronto studio.

Bryan Anderson | @BryanRAnderson

Bryan Anderson is an Elon University senior pursuing a double major in journalism and media analytics with a minor in political science. He has reported for the News & Observer in Raleigh, The Times-News in Burlington and The Charlotte Observer. Anderson also served as the enterprise manager and news editor of his school’s student-run news organization, Elon News Network. Anderson has won awards from Associated Collegiate Press and Hearst.

Macee Beheler | @MaceeBeheler

Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Fellow

Macee Beheler is a recent graduate from the University of Oklahoma. She received her bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. She produced a political segment as an intern at KGOU, Oklahoma’s NPR station. She reported local news as an intern at KWTV-TV. She worked as a producer and reporter for OU’s TV broadcast, OU Nightly.

Bryn Caswell | @bryncaswellmmj

Bryn Caswell is a senior at the University of Alabama pursuing dual majors in telecommunication and film and political science, with a concentration in electronic news. She most recently worked as a general assignment reporter for WVUA in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and she will return to that position in fall 2017. Caswell has previously interned for WBNS in Columbus, Ohio, Crimson Tide Productions and the SEC Network.

Claire Caulfield | @CaulfieldCM

Chip Weil Fellow

Claire Caulfield is a recent graduate from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She has covered education policy in the nation's capital, election night in New York City, small-town justice in Louisiana and Native American land rights. Former internships with KJZZ-FM, the Public Insight Network Bureau and Cronkite News/Arizona PBS have given her experience in radio reporting, community engagement and television reporting. The News21 documentary is her second long-term investigative project.

Maria Esquinca | @m_esquinca

Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Fellow

Maria Esquinca is a master of mass communications student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She will graduate this summer and will become a master’s of fine arts poetry student at the University of Miami in the fall. She has worked as an investigative reporter for Chucopedia in El Paso, and she interned with The New York Times Student Journalism Institute and the Dow Jones News Fund Business Reporting Internship at Crain’s Detroit Business. She also worked at the student newspaper, The Prospector.

Jordan Houston | @JordanHouston3

Knight Foundation Fellow

Jordan Houston is a multimedia journalist based in Phoenix. She previously worked as an investigative reporting intern at The Washington Post while pursuing a master’s degree in broadcast journalism at American University. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, WVII-TV, ROOSTERGNN, The Sophian and The Investigative Reporting Workshop.

Andrea Jaramillo | @andrea_jota

Hearst Fellow

Andrea Jaramillo is a Mexican anthropologist. She is completing her master’s degree in journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and she wants to tell stories from a cultural and anthropological perspective. At Cronkite, she has reported on the Latino vote in Phoenix and Mexicans’ perspectives on NAFTA. She also worked as an online reporter for the Mexican news platform El Semanario Sin Limites, where she covered social, cultural, public health and political issues. She’s done ethnographic fieldwork with indigenous groups in the Sonoran Desert, with farmworker communities in Tlaxcala, Mexico, and with undocumented immigrants in Phoenix.

Lauren Kaljur | @lorin12

Lauren Kaljur is a Canadian-Estonian multimedia journalist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her photography, videos and audio stories tend to focus on environmental, indigenous and global economic affairs and have been recognized by the Online News Association. She has covered young women fleeing forced marriage in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the construction of an indigenous pit house in the coastal mountain ranges of St'át'imc Nation. You can find her work on CBC, Yukon News, Arctic Deeply and PBS Newshour.

Brandon Kitchin | @BrandonKitchin

Brandon Kitchin is a junior at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where he studies journalism with a minor in communication studies. Kitchin is a Hearst Journalism and Jim Trinkle scholarship recipient. His photos have been featured in TCU’s weekly newspaper, The Skiff, as well as online on tcu360.com

Rachel Konieczny | @rachelkonieczny

Rachel Konieczny is a 2017 magna cum laude graduate of St. Bonaventure University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication. She previously served as news and photo editor for her campus newspaper, The Bona Venture, and she was the beat writer and photographer for Duquesne men’s basketball during her internship with Pittsburgh Sporting News. She will study intellectual property law at the University of New Hampshire this fall.

Jenna Miller | @jennamargaretta

Reynolds Fellow

Jenna Miller is a master’s student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in international studies from the City College of New York. Miller is a multimedia journalist who has reported from Albania to Arizona on environmental issues, LGBTQ rights and business. Her work has been published in The Arizona Republic, the Phoenix Business Journal and on businessjournalism.org.

Amy Molloy | @amymolloy9

Veronica Guerin Independent News & Media Fellow

Amy Molloy is a reporter with Independent News & Media, Ireland’s largest news organization. She is a recent graduate of Dublin City University with a master of arts in journalism. She has an undergraduate degree in law, and she previously worked as a caseworker on the Irish Innocence Project, which sparked her interest in investigative reporting. She spent the past nine months investigating Ireland’s housing crisis and the exploitation of foreign nationals by slum landlords. She also has experience in broadcast journalism and has worked with two of Ireland’s leading national radio stations, Newstalk and Today FM.

Elissa Nuñez | @elissa_nunez

Elissa Nuñez is a recent graduate of The George Washington University with a bachelor of arts in journalism and mass communication. She previously served as the current section editor at her school’s online news startup, The Rival GW. An aspiring political reporter, Nuñez has showcased her passion for storytelling through a variety of projects at CNN, the White House, NBC News, The New York Observer and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She will return to Washington, D.C., to finish her master’s in media and strategic communication this fall.

Fionnuala O’Leary | @FionnualaOLear1

Veronica Guerin Dublin City University Fellow

Fionnuala O’Leary has worked for DMG Media Ireland as a showbiz reporter for EVOKE.ie and a general assignment reporter for the Irish Daily Mail. She also has experience in investigative reporting with the Irish Mail on Sunday. O’Leary moved to New York City in January, and she reported on science and technology for WonderHowTo.com. She has a master’s of arts in journalism from Dublin City University and graduated with first class honors. She also has a bachelor of arts in creative writing from National University of Ireland, Galway.

Agnel Philip | @agnel88_philip

Don Bolles/Arizona Republic Fellow

Agnel Philip graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and economics. He previously worked for Bloomberg, The Arizona Republic, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and Downtown Devil. His work has been honored by the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

William Taylor Potter | @wmtaylorpotter

William Taylor Potter is a senior at Louisiana State University, majoring in mass communication with a concentration in journalism. He has previously worked at The News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware, and he is the editor in chief of The Daily Reveille at LSU. His work has been published by The Times-Picayune, The News Star in Monroe, Louisiana, The Shreveport Times and the Detroit Free Press.

Alexis Reese | @thealexisreese

Dallas Morning News Fellow

Alexis Reese is a senior at the University of North Texas in Denton. She will graduate with her bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism with a minor in sociology in fall 2017. Reese served as a chapter president of the National Association of Black Journalists during her sophomore year while attending Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.

Corinne Roels | @xocorinne

Reynolds Fellow

Corinne Roels is a master’s student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and genetics, also from ASU. Corinne is a multimedia journalist with a specialization in business reporting. Her work has been featured in The Arizona Republic, The Phoenix Business Journal and businessjournalism.org.

Michael M. Santiago | @msantiagophotos

Michael M. Santiago is a photojournalist based in Brooklyn, New York. Santiago received his bachelor’s in fine arts at San Francisco Art Institute and a master's degree from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. His work focuses on issues concerning people of color and their communities, from obesity and cancer to race and identity. His work has been featured in The New York Times Lens Blog, VICE Australia, Slate, ESPN's The Undefeated, The San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, PBS Newshour and Buzzfeed News. His work has been honored by the Alexia Foundation, College Photographer of the Year and Photo District News. He was a student at the Eddie Adams Workshop XXVIII.

Karl Schneider | @karlstartswithk

Karl Schneider recently graduated from Kent State University with a degree in journalism. He previously worked at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel through the Dow Jones News Fund. Schneider was the senior editor and director of special projects at KentWired, Kent State’s student media outlet.

Elizabeth Sims | @elizabethsimsou

Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Fellow

Elizabeth Sims is a senior journalism major at the University of Oklahoma. She was a documentarian for the OU Covers Refugees project and a multimedia reporter for the OU Covers 16 election project. She was the senior technical director for the mobile journalism network, OU NewsCrowd. She also is the standing photographer and social media manager of the annual National Press Photographers Association News Video Workshop in Norman, Oklahoma. Her work has been published by The Huffington Post, The Oklahoman and the Tulsa World.

Briana Smith | @brianasmithh

Briana Smith recently graduated from Hofstra University with a master’s degree in journalism. Smith is a multimedia journalist and has a passion for writing feature stories. She has reported on variety of topics, including veterans’ issues and environmental justice. Smith has interned for NBC, MSNBC and ABC.

Jasmine Spearing-Bowen | @JasmineSpearing

Reynolds Fellow

Jasmine Spearing-Bowen is a graduate student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and marketing from Hawaii Pacific University. Spearing-Bowen is a multimedia journalist who has reported on immigration and environmental issues in the U.S. and Mexico.

Adrienne St. Clair | @agestclair

Reynolds Fellow

Adrienne St. Clair is a graduate student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Brigham Young University. St. Clair is a multimedia journalist who has a love for radio. She has reported on immigration and politics from both the United States and Mexico, and she has produced for KJZZ, NPR’s affiliate station in Phoenix.

Nicole Tyau | @nicoletyau

Hearst Fellow

Nicole Tyau is a master’s student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where she also received her bachelor’s degree. She has reported on border issues in the United States, Mexico and Hungary with the Cronkite School’s borderlands projects. She has investigated education issues, tax lien foreclosures and court-ordered restitution. Her work has been published in The Arizona Republic, Cronkite News, PHOENIX Magazine, Arizona Foothills Magazine and the Phoenix Business Journal.

Jackie Wang | @jcqlnwng

Jackie Wang is a recent University of Texas at Austin graduate, with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and government. She previously worked at The Texas Tribune, the Austin American-Statesman and the El Paso Times. She spent most of her college years at the university paper, The Daily Texan, finishing her time there as managing editor. She will return to Texas to work as a reporting fellow in the Dallas Morning News Austin bureau.

Chelsea Rae Ybanez | @rae_ybanez

Hearst Fellow

Chelsea “Rae” Ybanez is a master’s degree student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She recently graduated from ASU with her bachelor’s degree in communication. Ybanez has travelled to Albania and across the U.S. as an investigative photojournalist. She has reported on business, human trafficking and environmental issues. Ybanez has done work for student publications at The Hope International Tribune and el Don newspaper.

Bliss Zechman | @BlissZechman

John and Patty Williams Fellow

Bliss Zechman graduated summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee in communications with a concentration in journalism and electronic media. She has previously worked at WBIR-TV and WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee; WTVC-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Global Access Partners in Sydney, Australia, and the Southern Standard in McMinnville, Tennessee. She was a honored as a Scripps Howard academic achiever and professional promise scholar in 2017.