Grace Asiegbu is a Chicago-based writer with over five years of experience crafting human-centered stories through impactful storytelling and audience engagement.

Nadia Carolina Hernandez is a bilingual Latina journalist with a passion for community storytelling with a focus on identity. She graduated from DePaul University with a BA in Journalism. She is committed to using journalism as a way to create community pride, increase transparency, and keep locals informed.

Obed Lamy is a video journalist and a documentary filmmaker. As a journalist with the Associated Press, he covers breaking news — including the exclusive phone call between Pope Leo XIV and his brother broadcast worldwide — and enterprise stories on immigrant communities. His films have screened at festivals across the United States, Canada, and South Korea. He won a Student Emmy from the Mid-America Emmy® Foundation and Best Emerging Filmmaker at the Fayetteville Film Festival. Born and raised in Haiti, Obed explores collective memory and silences in historical narratives through intimate, human-centered storytelling. A Fulbright Scholar, he earned an MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University and is a fellow of the Caribbean Film Academy and Kartemquin Films’ Diverse Voices in Docs program.