SAFETY
BREAKING: Phoenix Police Arrest Man Who Threatened To Shoot Up LGBTQ+ Bar
Police say the man admitted to making the threat, claiming he wanted to target the LGBTQ community as a “political message."
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Joseph Darius Jaafari is the founder and editor in chief of LOOKOUT.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Geri Koeppel is a veteran writer and editor who has worked and lived in Phoenix, San Francisco and Detroit.
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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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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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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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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.
View articlesAnnika Miyata is a 2025 intern for LOOKOUT, studying at Arizona State University.
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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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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.
View articlesEm Hobeheidar is a freelance journalist, musician, and fiction ghostwriter focusing on LGBTQ+ rights and sci-fi fantasy stories.
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