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2025 Freelance Journalism Conference Recordings

Cultivate resilience with the Institute for Independent Journalists at the 2025 online freelance conference. Hear from keynote speakers like author and radio host Celeste Headlee on how to build strength through community. Learn wisdom, strategies and freelancer-tested tools to keep your business sustainable. 
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Key Takeaways

  • What 20+ editors want in a pitch, and how to win assignments
  • New strategies for financially and emotionally sustainable freelancing
  • Ideas for building community and new networking contacts

Enrolled Users Get Access To 

Our incredible bonus bundle, includes all of our recordings from the 2024 conference plus:  
  • Three panel recordings featuring editors talking about how to pitch them, featuring the Atlantic, CNN, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Wired, the Emancipator, Prism, the Verge, Chicago Sun-Times, Essence and Chicago Health Magazine
  • Three recorded Q&As with Katie Kingsbury, opinion editor the New York Times; Fin Leary, of We Need Diverse Books; and Chris Gayomali, former GQ features editor.
  • Downloadable zine on layoff survival, a spreadsheet for tracking freelance assignments, checklist for a new client or new assignment, with freelance tips and an hourly rate calculator, and seven pitch guides, for Marketplace, MIT Technology Review, PCMag, Salon, New York Times Real Estate, Chicago Sun-Times, Essence and Chicago Health Magazine.

About the Conference:


Day 1

Rethinking the value of labor

Thursday Feb 27, 10:00 am - 11:15 am ET

Gabe Schneider, Founder The Objective

Gabe Schneider is a reporter and editor based in LA. He is a co-founder of The Objective, a publication that examines systems of power and inequity in journalism, as well as a growth strategist at LA Public Press.

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Co-founder, Hearing Things

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd is a Xicana writer, editor, author, and a co-founder of the independent music site Hearing Things. She was formerly the top editor at both Jezebel and The Fader, and over the past 25 years has written for a slew of publications including Hell Gate, Vibe, Rookie, Spin, The Guardian, Flaming Hydra, Vogue, and Pitchfork, where she was a contributing writer. Her forthcoming book from Penguin, Vaquera, is about growing up Mexican American in Wyoming and the myth of the American West. 

Jamie Lauren Keiles, Writer 

Jamie Lauren Keiles is currently working on The Third Person, a book about nonbinary identity in America, to be published in 2026 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He also runs the trans public history project @sexchange.tbt on Instagram. 

Ann Marie Awad (Moderator)

Ann Marie Awad is an independent journalist with 15 years of experience in the news business. As a host and reporter in public radio newsrooms across three different states, their work has also aired nationally on NPR and Here & Now. Ann Marie has produced, edited and consulted on podcast projects with clients including Audible, SONOS and WAMU.
A panel of journalists from worker-owned collectives and those challenging capitalistic frameworks for labor will discuss ways to rethink the value of journalists’ labor. As a community of independent workers, IIJ members are well-positioned to make values-aligned choices about how we spend our time and which organizations make use of our skills. At this time of disruption, do we have anything to lose? These experts will help show us the way.
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In Conversation With Celeste Headlee

Thursday Feb 27, 11:30 am - 12:45 pm

Celeste Headlee

Keynote speaker Celeste Headlee is a journalist, professional speaker, and author of the books We Need To Talk, Do Nothing, and Speaking of Race. Her TEDx Talk, 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation, viewed nearly 40 million times, is one of the 10 most-watched talks. In her 25 years in public radio, Celeste has anchored programs including 1A, Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, Here and Now, All Things Considered, Here and Now, and Weekend Edition. Celeste hosts the Conferences for Women’s “Women Amplified” podcast. She is also the president of Headway DEI, a non-profit that works to bring racial justice and equity to journalism. 

Deepa Fernandes, Co-Host, NPR & WBUR's Here and Now

Deepa Fernandes is an award-winning journalist, a two-time first-generation immigrant, and a citizen of three countries. Deepa is currently the co-host of NPR and WBUR's Here and Now, heard on 500 stations nationwide. She began her career in Sydney, Australia at community station 2SER. In her 20s, Deepa lived and freelanced across Latin America, including Cuba, Ecuador and Mexico. Arriving in New York, Deepa found a home in the public radio community, and founded a nonprofit aimed at diversifying the journalism. While running People's Production House and hosting a three-hour morning show on WBAI, Deepa also got her master's in journalism from Columbia University. That work landed Deepa a prestigious JSK fellowship at Stanford, and subsequent jobs at KPCC in Los Angeles and as the immigration correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Editors Panel

Thursday Feb 27, 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm ET
A panel of national editors talk about how to pitch their publications, what they want from freelance contributors, and how to get on their radar. We cover rates, project scope, contract terms and the editorial process.
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Strategic Marketing to Land New Clients

Thursday Feb 27, 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm ET

Jeffrey Yamaguchi, Author and marketing expert

Jeffrey Yamaguchi is an author and longtime book publishing professional who has held leadership positions at publishers such as Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Abrams Books. Currently he works directly with authors and publishers as an independent marketing and publicity consultant to successfully launch their books. He also publishes a book publishing focused newsletter, bookpublishing.substack.com.

Mallory Carra, Freelance Journalist and Podcast Producer, Part-Time Lecturer of Journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Mallory Carra, is a veteran journalist, podcast producer and adjunct professor with 20 years of journalism and new media experience. She teaches digital, audio and TV journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and has worked on several podcasts, including Sarah Turney’s Voices for Justice, The Why Files, and USC’s Electric Futures. Previously, Mallory was a podcast writer and story editor at Spotify’s Parcast Studios for over 5 years. She also writes articles for NBCU Academy’s Equity Lab and is the founder of the West Coast Media Jobs newsletter.

Melissa Emerson, SmallBizLady

"Melinda F. Emerson, “SmallBizLady” is America’s #1 Small Business Expert, She’s an
internationally renowned keynote speaker on business development, social media selling,
and marketing strategy. As CEO of Quintessence Group, her marketing consulting firm serves
Fortune 500 brands that target small businesses. She has an online
school www.smallbizladyuniversity.com that teaches business owners online marketing. She
has published over 5000 articles on her blog SucceedAsYourOwnBoss.com. Her advice is
widely read, reaching more than 1 million entrepreneurs each week online. She hosts The
Smallbizchat Podcast and is the bestselling author of Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months,
 and Fix Your Business."

Shernay Williams(Moderator) 

Shernay spent more than a decade as a journalist for television, radio, and print outlets throughout the South and East Coast before serving as a business coach, running a content firm, and in 2020, launching The ​Black Mompreneur. Recently Shernay became host and producer of a digital series for TheGrio called "A Taste of Chocolate," where she visits notable Black-owned restaurants to learn the stories behind their food.

More important now than ever: This panel will cover how freelancers can effectively get in front of new clients and win business. Learn about letters of introduction, efficient social media tactics, networking to decision makers and more. You'll leave with a slew of new ideas and strategies for leveling up your marketing game.
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The New Reality of Audio Journalism

Thursday Feb 27, 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm ET

Mark Pagán, Executive Producer/Editor

Mark Pagán is an award-winning producer, writer, and editor for non-fiction audio and film. He's developed projects with Radiotopia, Futuro Studios, PRX, Ten Percent Happier, The New York Times and is the creator and host of the critically acclaimed show Other Men Need Help. His work has been featured at the Slamdance Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and on Latino USA, On the Media, 99 Percent Invisible, Code Switch, among others and has been nominated for a Peabody, made The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The New Yorker's annual “best of” lists, and has been recognized by Vulture, TIME Magazine, the CBC, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Financial Times. Before working in digital media, Mark was a teacher, social worker, comedian, part-time mascot, and b-boy. He currently lives in NYC with his wife and an emo pit bull named Soca.

Myron Kaplan, Freelance podcast producer

Myron Kaplan is a longtime podcast producer and experienced full-time freelancer who has a lifelong love of audio and storytelling. They’ve produced podcasts for Slate, Talkhouse, the LA Times, Audacy, and many other networks. They hold a Master’s in Specialized Journalism in the Arts from the University of Southern California and are also a professional musician and juggler.

John Asante, Independent Podcast Showrunner, Senior Producer & Consultant

John Asante (he/him) is an award-winning, independent audio producer, showrunner, and consultant. He’s devoted to crafting stories that shine light on marginalized communities within the worlds of music, pop culture, and social justice. After spending much of his 15-year career producing radio shows and podcasts for companies like NPR, WNYC, Stitcher and Pineapple Street Studios, John shifted to freelancing in 2022. Since then, he’s made podcasts in collaboration with several shops, including Awfully Nice, Fresh Produce, Pushkin, Imagine Entertainment, EmbraceRace, Audible, Spotify, and Hartbeat. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their two rambunctious cats.

Ruxandra Guidi (Moderator)

Ruxandra Guidi has been telling stories for more than two decades. She is the president of the board of Homelands Productions, a journalism nonprofit cooperative founded in 1989, and a columnist for the 54-year-old nonprofit magazine High Country News. She also serves on the board of El Tímpano, a local reporting lab amplifying the voices of Oakland’s Latino and Mayan immigrants. As a former assistant professor of practice and assistant director of the Bilingual Journalism Program at the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism, Ruxandra advised students and taught audio storytelling, feature writing and freelancing for years.
Currently, she is an independent editor and contributor to various podcasts and magazines, and she is working on her second novel. Her first, Calle Colón #15, is represented by agent Amanda Orozco at Transatlantic Agency. In 2018, she was awarded the Susan Tifft Fellowship for women in documentary and journalism by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and in 2023, she won a Soros Equality Fellowship to produce the anthology podcast, Happy Forgetting, which will release by late 2024. She’s a native of Caracas, Venezuela, currently based in Tucson, Arizona. 
With layoffs at NPR, Vice Audio, iHeart Media and public radio stations from coast to coast, audio journalism has been transformed. A panel of experienced audio freelancers will share real talk about thriving in the business in 2025, from pushing back against unfavorable contracts and spotting exploitative gigs to where the industry is going. You’ll learn which compromises to make – and where to hold firm.
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Unwind With Other Freelancers 

Thursday Feb 27, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm ET
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Damon Brown

Best-selling author, startup founder, and TEDx speaker 

Valeria Fernández

Investigative journalist and managing editor of palabra

Fernanda Santos

Editor and leader, digital and audio 

Olga Lucia Torres

Lecturer at Columbia University, board of trustees chair of the Multicultural Media Correspondents Association 

Liv Monahan

Freelance journalist, Ida B. Wells investigative fellow finalist
After a full day of learning, join your freelance colleagues for an interactive networking session. Connect with IIJ leaders and other independent journalists in the main room and breakout groups organized by subject area and topics you‘d like to explore. This popular IIJ session has led to accountability buddies and writing groups, and we guarantee camaraderie!

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Day 2

The Power of the Pivot

Friday Feb 28, 10:00 am - 11:15 am ET

Phoebe Gavin, Career and Leadership Coach, Better With Phoebe

Phoebe Gavin is a career and leadership coach helping ambitious professionals build successful, fulfilling careers without sacrificing work-life balance. She is speaker, and trainer specializing in career strategy, negotiation, and empathetic leadership.

Sari Botton

Sari Botton's memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself...Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo, was chosen by Poets & Writers magazine for the 2022 edition of its annual "5 Over 50" feature. An essay from it received notable mention in The Best American Essays 2023, edited by Vivian Gornick. For five years, she was the Essays Editor at Longreads. She edited the bestselling anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NewYork and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. She publishes Oldster Magazine, Memoir Land, and Adventures in Journalism. She was the Writer in Residence in the creative writing department at SUNY New Paltz for Spring, 2023.

Emma Carew Grovum

Emma Carew Grovum is the director of careers and culture at The Marshall Project and also the founder of Kimbap Media, a consultancy solving problems at the intersection of technology and audience. In addition to bringing anti-racism interventions to newsrooms, Emma coaches journalists on leadership, product thinking, and digital transformation. She is a co-founder and regular contributor to the News Product Alliance, runs a leadership accelerator for journalists of color called Upward, and co-hosts Sincerely, Leaders of Color, a space for anyone interested in building a safer industry for journalists of color. She currently serves on the board of directors of Prism, a women/BIPOC-centered news startup.

Katherine Reynolds Lewis (Moderator)

Katherine is a science journalist and author who writes for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Parents, and The Washington Post. Her 2018 book The Good News About Bad Behavior grew out of Mother Jones’ most-read article. A biracial journalist (Asian American and White), she previously worked as a national correspondent for Newhouse News Service and Bloomberg News.
At a certain point in freelancing, the routine gets old, your pitches aren’t landing, and you start to wonder: is it me? This session will explore how to know it’s time to change gears. Journalism recruiters and career coaches will share stories of a hard pivot: from one beat to another, out of journalism, or into a completely different field. Bring your soul-searching questions and wild ideas: we’ll get you started toward answers.
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Friday Keynote

Friday February 28, 11:30 am - 12:45 am ET

Gina Chua

Gina Chua is Executive Editor at Semafor, a new global news startup. She was previously Executive Editor at Reuters, Editor-in-Chief of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Editor of the Journal's Asia edition and a Journal correspondent in Vietnam and the Philippines. A native of Singapore, she majored in math at the University of Chicago and has a masters in journalism from Columbia University. 

John J. Edwards III, Former Bloomberg and WSJ Editor

John J. Edwards III is a former longtime senior editor at The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News, where he was most recently managing editor for weekends in the Americas. He has also held editing and reporting positions at TheStreet.com, The Times of Trenton, N.J., Dow Jones Newswires and the Bureau of National Affairs (now Bloomberg Industry Group). He graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.

Hear from Gina Chua, executive editor of Semafor, in a wide ranging conversation about her career, the state and future of journalism, the skills we'll need to cope with the advent of artificial intelligence, and thriving as a journalist in the current climate. Gina will be in conversation with John J. Edwards III, is a former longtime senior editor at The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News, where he was most recently managing editor for weekends in the Americas. Gina was previously executive editor at Reuters, editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, a deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, editor of the Journal's Asia edition and a Journal correspondent in Vietnam and the Philippines. A native of Singapore, she majored in math at the University of Chicago and has a masters in journalism from Columbia University. Before the Journal, John held editing and reporting positions at TheStreet.com, The Times of Trenton, N.J., Dow Jones Newswires and the Bureau of National Affairs (now Bloomberg Industry Group). He graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.
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Editor's Panel

Friday Feb 28, 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm ET

Tami Abdollah, Senior editor, Noema magazine

Tami Abdollah is a senior editor at Noema Magazine. She was previously a national correspondent at USA TODAY focused on the inequities and disparities of the criminal justice system, among other subjects.

Deborah Jian Lee, Senior Editor, Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Deborah Jian Lee is an award-winning journalist and radio producer, senior editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, journalism fellow at Harvard Divinity School and the author of Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism (Beacon Press). She has worked as a staff reporter for the Associated Press, taught journalism at Columbia University, and has bylines in Esquire, Fast Company, ELLE, Foreign Policy, TIME, WBEZ and others. Winner of a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award and the Education Writers Association’s Eddie Prize, she was also named a finalist for the Livingston Awards.

Nicole Pasulka, Senior Features Editor, Cosmopolitan

Nicole Pasulka is the senior features editor at Cosmopolitan. Her writing has been published at New York magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones, VICE, and The Believer, anthologized in the Best American series, and featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her first book, How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2022.

Amy McKeever, Senior Digital Editorial Manager, National Geographic

Based at National Geographic's headquarters in Washington, D.C., I lead a team of editors in ideating and assigning stories across all of our core subject areas, which include history, animals, health, science, and the environment. I have a special love for explainers, particularly in history and health.

Erika Hayasaki (Moderator)

Erika is a writer whose stories appear in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Atlantic, and many others. Erika was a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow and an Alicia Patterson Fellow, and is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Time. Erika currently teaches at the University of California, Irvine as a professor in the Literary Journalism Program.
A panel of national and regional editors will talk about how to pitch their publications, what they want from freelance contributors, and how to get on their radar. We’ll cover rates, project scope, contract terms and the editorial process. Have you ever wondered what you're doing wrong? Bring your questions -- this session has answers.
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Ethical Use of AI

Friday Feb 28, 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm ET

Benjamin Toff, Associate professor, University of Minnesota

Benjamin Toff is an Associate Professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota where he is also Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center. He studies the public’s changing relationship with news, public opinion, and political engagement and is co-author of Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism (2024, Columbia University Press). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA in social studies from Harvard University. He also previously worked at the New York Times.

Alex Mahadevan, director of Mediawise, Poynter

Alex Mahadevan is director of MediaWise, Poynter’s digital media literacy initiative, and faculty leading AI initiatives and misinformation research. He's taught thousands of students, older adults and journalists how to verify information online, and co-wrote Poynter’s AI ethics guide. He co-leads the Empowering Diverse Digital Citizens Lab at Stanford University, which studies the impact of media literacy interventions on underserved communities. Alex has also been on the forefront of the study of crowdsourced fact-checking.

Lynn Walsh, Assistant Director, Trusting News

Lynn Walsh (she/her) is the Assistant Director at Trusting News and an Emmy award-winning journalist who has worked in investigative journalism at the national level and locally in California, Ohio, Texas and Florida. She is the former Ethics Chair for the Society of Professional Journalists and a past national president for the organization. Based in San Diego, Lynn is also an adjunct professor and freelance journalist.

Joanna S. Kao, AI Accountability Network Senior Editor, Pulitzer Center

Joanna S. Kao leads the AI Accountability Network at the Pulitzer Center where she oversees a portfolio of AI and machine learning reporting projects and develops resources for other journalists looking to do AI-related reporting. She holds a computer science degree from MIT and an MBA from IE Business School. 

She previously worked at the Financial Times and Al Jazeera America. She also taught data visualization at Columbia Journalism School as well as developed and taught two new accessibility courses for the New School and Parsons School of Design. She champions accessible design and enjoys living at the intersection of computer science, design and journalism.

Sarah Stirland(Moderator)

Sarah Stirland is a writer/radio and podcast producer living in Silicon Valley. She co-teaches, produces, and edits San Francisco Bay Area high school student stories for KALW’s Summer Podcasting Institute. The Institute publishes an award-winning podcast called tbh. 
Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Yet we know it’s putting creators out of business and demands earth-destroying levels of energy to run. How do journalists use AI ethically in reporting, storytelling and running a business? If you feel a tinge of ambivalence at letting Otter.ai transcribe interviews or ChatGPT help you write pitch letters, this session is for you! Experts in journalism and ethics will help you frame the questions to ask and find a path that’s right for you to navigate the AI revolution.
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Show Me the Money: Fund Your Next Journalism Project

Friday Feb 28, 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm ET

Bernice Yeung, Board member, the Fund for Investigative Journalism and Managing Director, Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Journalism

Bernice Yeung serves on the board of directors for The Fund for Investigative Journalism. She is also the managing director of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Journalism. Previously, she was a reporter for ProPublica and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, PBS FRONTLINE and The New York Times, and she has been a member of investigative teams that have received a George Polk Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She is the author of In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers (The New Press, 2018), which received a PEN America Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.

Kat Duncan, RJI Director of Innovation

As Director of Innovation Kat Duncan leads RJI’s innovative initiatives, programs and workshops. This includes the Student Innovation Competition, the Professional Fellowship program and the Student Innovation Fellowship program. She founded the Community-Centered Symposium and the Women in Journalism Workshop. She manages the innovation team, student staff and leads partnership projects with local newsrooms, organizations and individuals. She also teaches Emerging Tech & Innovation at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Her mission is to move journalism forward through collaborations that can provide free, accessible, open source, practical and timely resources for journalists, newsrooms and the communities they serve.

Marina Walker Guevara, Executive Editor, Pulitzer Center

"Marina Walker Guevara is the Pulitzer Center's executive editor. Before joining the Center, Walker Guevara was deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). She managed two of the largest collaborations of reporters in journalism history: The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers, which involved hundreds of journalists using technology to unravel stories of public interest from terabytes of leaked financial data.

Walker Guevara was instrumental in developing the model of large-scale media collaboration, persuading reporters who used to compete with one another instead to work together, share resources and amplify their reach and impact."

Joe Hong, Education Journalist

Joe Hong is an education journalist based in Brooklyn. As a current O'Brien Fellow in Public Service Journalism, he's writing a series of articles about the past, present and future of math education. He's also writing a book about Asian Americans and the racial politics of learning math in the United States. Previously, he covered education for a variety of newsrooms in California, including CalMatters, KPBS and The Desert Sun.

Valeria Fernández (Moderator)

Valeria is a Phoenix-based investigative journalist and managing editor of palabra.. She has produced documentaries for Discovery Spanish, CNN Español, and PBS. Her work can be found in The Guardian, California Sunday Magazine, Latino USA and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. She won the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, and as a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow, created the podcast Comadres al Aire.
With funding and travel budgets for stories getting squeezed and slashed, there’s no better time to tap grants and fellowships to fund your ambitious journalism project. This panel of grant and fellowship directors will explain how to craft a winning proposal and the best way to position yourself as a candidate for the many funds out there in journalism. You’ll learn how to prepare and where to find resources to make your application shine. Sponsored by the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism. 
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Networking Session and Conference Takeaways

Friday Feb 28, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm ET 

Sylvia A. Harvey

Author of The Shadow System 

Yvonne Liu

Writer and mental health advocate 

Damon Brown

Best-selling author, startup founder, and TEDx speaker 

Liv Monahan

Freelance journalist, Ida B. Wells investigative fellow finalist 

Olga Lucia Torres

Lecturer at Columbia University, board of trustees chair of the Multicultural Media Correspondents Association 

Jamila Bey

Editorial director at WHYY News
Keep the energy of the conference going in a networking session with IIJ leaders, speakers and other independent journalists. Share your favorite learnings, ask a follow-up question or maybe meet an accountability buddy to help you with conference-inspired freelance goals. This is a live session that will not be recorded. Even if you're an introvert -- you won’t want to miss it.
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The Institute for Independent Journalists is an education, professional development, and mutual support organization for independent journalists, focusing on Black, Indigenous and people of color. Our mission is financial and emotional sustainability for independent journalists of color, through community learning, innovation and advocacy.
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