The Investigative Reporting Workshop is an innovative, editorially independent, nonprofit newsroom based at American University in Washington, D.C. Undergraduate, graduate and early-career journalists ...

Hayden Godfrey is a post-graduate fellow at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, where he is a contributing researcher and reporter to The Washington Post’s investigative unit. He has also co-bylined ...

Aarushi Sahejpal (he/him) is data editor at IRW, professorial lecturer of data journalism at American University’s School of Communication, and a data reporter on The Accountability Project at The ...

Daniella Jimenez, a Miami native, is the president of her university’s National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ chapter and is starting a new BIPOC newspaper at her university. This past year, ...

Elijah Pittman is a rising sophomore at Morgan State University and is majoring in multimedia journalism. He is the president of his university’s chapter of the National Association of ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley J. Lowery is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading reporters covering issues of law enforcement, race and justice. He spent seven years as a national ...

Cara Kelly is an investigative reporter, digital journalist and educator with more than a decade of experience at some of the largest newspapers in the country. She spent nearly five years on USA ...