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Matt Krupnick is a freelance journalist who has written about higher education since 2004. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Newsweek and other publications.

Jesse Bedayn reports on economic inequality for The Mercury News in San Jose and CalMatters as part of The California Divide project. Before becoming a Report for America corps member, Bedayn studied investigative reporting and narrative writing at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he wrote about health care and aging in California and investigated the fraught world of for-profit nursing homes for the Investigative Reporting Program. Bedayn has worked as a stringer for The New York Times and as a research and data assistant at KQED public radio where he plumbed through police use-of-force cases. Bedayn holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kent in England. As editor of the student paper InQuire, he won local awards and shared the paper’s first national U.K. award since the paper’s inception in 1965. Bedayn grew up in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada, and spends his free time rambling in the mountains.

Bio coming soon.

Grace covers California’s economy for CalMatters. Previously, she was an editor at the Washington Monthly. She is a graduate of Pomona College.

For decades, David Basse has been at the forefront of the music scene in Kansas City, taking the torch from such legends as KC Jazz pioneers Charlie Parker, Count Basie and Jay McShann.

Emma Gallegos is a reporter for Ed Source covering Valley education. Kern County is still her beat but so are Kings, Tulare, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin.

Megan Manata is an Interactive Producer at CapRadio.

Thomas Peele is an investigative reporter at EdSource. He is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter.