Diane Winston

Knight Chair in Media and Religion

Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. A national authority on religion and the media, her expertise includes religion, politics and the news media as well as religion and the entertainment media. A journalist and a scholar, Winston's current research interests are media coverage of Islam, religion and new media, and the place of religion in American identity.

Mary MacVean

Instructor

Mary MacVean is Executive Director of GrowGood, an urban farm in Bell. She is the former Mind and Body editor editor at the Los Angeles Times, where she also worked as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. At the Associated Press, she was national editor and also wrote about food.

Thomas Brooksbank

Thomas Brooksbank is an associate producer for Good Morning America at ABC News in New York City.

Paulina Cachero

Paulina Cachero is an editorial fellow at MAKERS Women and Yahoo Lifestyle/Entertainment daily.

Tom Carroll

Tom Carroll is a video producer at Rios Clementi Hale Studios. He also created, researched and wrote 27 webisodes on the history of LA and surrounding areas.

Rachel Cohrs

Rachel Cohrs is a health care policy reporter at Inside Washington Publishers in Washington DC. After graduation, she was an intern at the Dallas Morning News.

Chris Damian

Chris Damiam is an investigative reporter for the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, CA.

Aziza Kasumov

Aziza Kasumov covers endowments, charitable foundations and investment consultants for FundFire, a Financial Times specialized news service. She interned at New York magazine and Bloomberg, and she lives in New York City.

Miranda Mazariegos

Miranda Mazariegos is a multimedia producer at NPR's Radio Ambulante.

Razzan Nakhalawi

Razzan Nakhalawi lives in Washington, D.C. She is a digital producer for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Erin Rode

Erin Rode is a reporter at the Ventura County Star.

Sherry Simpson Dean

Sherry Simpson Dean is senior director of engagement and impact at ITVS in San Francisco.

Ryan Thompson

Ryan Thompson is an assignment editor at Euronews in Lyon, France. He also has been a correspondent for France 24.

Ashley Vasquez

Ashley Vazquez is a social media associate at Harmony Program in New York City.

Kevin Grant

Kevin Grant is The GroundTruth Project’s Co-founder and Executive Editor, as well as Vice President of Report for America.

Josie Huang

Josie Huang is a producer and reporter at KPCC, Southern California Radio.

April Makgoeng

April Makgoeng is a Ph.D. student in the School of a Religion at the University of Southern California. She is a former producer at National Geographic Television and taught documentary production at Brigham Young University.

Alan Mittelstaedt

Alan Mittelstaedt is an associate professor of journalism at USC Annenberg.Before coming to USC, he served as news editor at LAWeeky and as city editor at the Portland (ME) Press Herald.