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Jamil Ragland is a writer from Hartford, CT. His work has appeared in the New Haven Independent, CT Newsjunkie, New England Public Media, CT Public, CT Mirror, Hartford Courant, and elsewhere.

Nora Grace-Flood is our Philadelphia bureau chief. She was previously a staff reporter at the New Haven Independent covering homelessness, land use and municipal politics.

Born and raised Northeasterner with big citrus, avocado, and sourdough energy. Multi-media artist and creative, based in Oakland. Feeds on greens and cheese, live music, hand crafts, and sunshine.

Fred Noland is a professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in the Comics BFA program. As an artist, his expertise is complex visual storytelling.

Detroit-based journalist, and a musicals junkie.

Ryan Patrick Hooper hosts "In the Groove" on 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. Hooper has reported for the New York Times, NPR, Detroit Free Press, Hour Detroit, SPIN and Paste.