Our board & advisors
Board of Directors
Joe Natoli, Board Chair
Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Baptist Health South Florida
Irving Washington, Vice Chair
Senior Fellow, KFF
Rosental Alves
Professor, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, University of Texas at Austin
Jeff Cohen
Executive Vice President of Communications, Arnold Ventures
Michelle De La Isla
Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Teresa Gorman
Senior Program Associate, Public Square, Democracy Fund
Peter Lattman
Managing Director, Media, Emerson Collective
Hilary Schneider
Strategic advisor to the Board of Directors, Shutterfly
Maria Thomas
Startup Advisor/Investor
John Thornton, Co-founder
Co-founder & Partner, Elsewhere Partners

The maintenance of an informed public is the responsibility of the public itself, not the incidental byproduct of a series of commercial transactions.
John Thornton, Co-Founder of the American Journalism Project & Founder of the Texas Tribune
Advisory Circle
We are also grateful for the guidance and support of our expanding Advisory Circle.
Laurence Baer
Chief Executive Officer and President, San Francisco Giants
Marsha Cooke
Vice President, ESPN Films and Executive Producer, 30 for 30
Simone Coxe
Farai Chideya
Host and producer, Our Body Politic
Pamela Maffei McCarthy
Deputy Editor of The New Yorker 1992-2020
Graciela Mochkofsky
Dean, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Dr. Anya Schiffrin
Senior lecturer, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
Evan Smith
Senior Advisor, Texas Tribune and Senior Advisor, Emerson Collective
Richard Tofel
Principal, Gallatin Advisory LLC and former president, ProPublica
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