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Amina Rahman has recently joined NPR as an apprentice citizen journalist, the J-Corps. She received a Bachelor of Education from McGill University in Montreal, where she was born and raised. She is passionate about curriculum development and interdisciplinary/STEAM education and has taught in different capacities from pre-K to high school in Montreal, in Chicago, and in the Springfield area. She enjoys spending time with her family, engaging with various community and service groups, and gardening.

Hafsa Rahman is a senior in high school, interested in pursuing journalism in college. She recently worked with NPR Illinois as a J-Corps citizen journalist. She was born and raised in Chicago and has lived in Illinois her whole life. She loves to read, paint, and bake.

Diane Orson is CT Public Radio's Deputy News Director and Southern Connecticut Bureau Chief. For years, hers was the first voice many Connecticut residents heard each day as the local host of Morning Edition. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Here And Now. She is the co-recipient of a Peabody Award. Her work has been recognized by the Connecticut Society for Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, including the Ellen Abrams Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and the Walt Dibble Award for Overall Excellence.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

Tom O'Connor is a student in the Medill Illinois News Bureau, a program at the Medill School of Journalism that provides local news outlets with state legislature and government coverage.

Marilyn Geewax is a contributor to NPR.

NPR commentator Bonny Wolf grew up in Minnesota and has worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in New Jersey and Texas. She taught journalism at Texas A&M University where she encouraged her student, Lyle Lovett, to give up music and get a real job. Wolf gives better advice about cooking and eating, and contributes her monthly food essay to NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday. She is also a contributing editor to "Kitchen Window," NPR's Web-only, weekly food column.