LOOKOUT

Joseph Darius Jaafari is the founder and editor in chief of LOOKOUT.

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Tori Gantz is a staff writer for LOOKOUT covering politics.

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Geri Koeppel is a veteran writer and editor who has worked and lived in Phoenix, San Francisco and Detroit.

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Shelby Rae Wills moved to Phoenix in 2022 to pursue their Master’s degree in Investigative Journalism. They taught English in California and in Eastern Europe through the Peace Corps.

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Lorenzo Gomez is a multimedia journalist based in Phoenix, covering culture and politics.

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Celina Jiménez is a freelance writer, copywriter, and poet based in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Yezmin Villarreal is a writer, journalist, and zinester. They are the creator of Dyke Queen, an art, style, and literature zine, that was awarded the “Issues Residency” by Hello Mr.

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Natalia is a sophomore at Arizona State University studying Journalism and Mass Communication. She works at The State Press on the community and culture desk and is a LOOKOUT summer intern.

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Annika Miyata is a 2025 intern for LOOKOUT, studying at Arizona State University.

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Sreejita Patra is a Scripps Howard Fellow for LOOKOUT for the summer of 2026.

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Royal Young is a non-binary poet and author from downtown New York City. They now live and create in the desert.

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Zach Bradshaw is a multimedia journalist at Arizona State University. He's an aspiring digital or broadcast reporter, with an emphasis on community and politics reporting.

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Fitzwilliam Anderson is an intern based in New York City. He is pursuing his Masters Degree at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He reports on technology, politics, and LGBTQ stories.

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Susan Barnett is a bilingual, community-centered independent journalist based in Southern Arizona.

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Lisa Abelar is a longtime Arizona journalist and freelance writer based in Gilbert who seeks adventure and runs a nonprofit for domestic abuse survivors when she's not writing.

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Daniel Mills is a writer living in Phoenix, AZ. He is a former poetry reader for the literary and arts publication Passengers Journal and has reviewed poetry for Cleaver Magazine. More of his writing can be found at danielmills.co.

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Juliette Rihl is a freelance journalist focused on equity issues. She was named Pennsylvania’s emerging reporter of the year in 2021.

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Sahara Sajjadi is a journalist based in Arizona with a master's degree in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Alec Berg is a journalist based in Denver who's covered the queer community in Colorado. In his free time, Alec enjoys the outdoors in Colorado.

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Cody Hays is a queer and trans media scholar and Ph.D. student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

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Yana Kunichoff is a journalist based in Phoenix, Arizona. She has been an education reporter for The Arizona Republic and Chalkbeat Chicago, and an editor for both Migratory Notes and The Moscow Times

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Charissa Lucille is a Phoenix artist quilting, self publishing, and running Wasted Ink Zine Distro.

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Adam Rhodes (they/them) is an investigative journalist whose work primarily focuses on queer people and the criminal legal system.

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Genesis Lara is a writer for the ACLU of Arizona, focused on uncovering the impacts of U.S. immigration and border policies.

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Monica Navarro (she/her) is a freelance journalist & multimedia producer based in Tempe.

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Em Hobeheidar is a freelance journalist, musician, and fiction ghostwriter focusing on LGBTQ+ rights and sci-fi fantasy stories.

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Quinn Quē is a tech reporter and culture writer. Their work has appeared in Current Affairs and the Edokwin Editorial.

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Hank Stephenson is the co-founder of the Arizona Agenda. Hank has covered Arizona for national outlets like The New York Times, Politico Magazine and Columbia Journalism Review.

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Hope Pisoni is an investigative reporter at Uncloseted Media and a proud trans woman. She has investigated anti-trans pseudoscience, hate groups, incarceration and more at Uncloseted Media.

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Grant Johnson is a multimedia journalist focusing on investigative work at Arizona State University.

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Wade Sharp graduated from Arizona State University with his English degree in 2024. He now works as a freelance journalist in Phoenix with a focus on religion and extremism.

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Ellie Samsal is a transgender writer and activist living in Phoenix, AZ.

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Clarissa Sosin is a multimedia investigative journalist interested in civil rights and how politics and policy affects people's lives.

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Nicole Ludden has been a journalist her whole life, starting with her high school paper. A Cronkite grad, she’s covered local government at the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Weekly, and the AZ Republic.

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