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Claudia Amezcua is freelance multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her clients include CNN, KFON-TV, and InlandEmpire.com. Previously, she served as anchor/reporter for 90.1 KSAK where she won numerous awards in entertainment reporting and best use of sound. Additionally, Claudia dabbles in sports blogging from a women's perspective via her blog A Chicks Guide 2 Sports. She is also a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and a 2014 graduate of Scripps. Read more about her life at claudiaamezcua.com.
Jennifer Nicole Sullivan is the vintage clothing writer/editor at About.com in New York City. She also writes about fashion, arts and entertainment for Newport Mercury and various publications. Previously, Jennifer was a copywriter at Real Simple (a Time Inc. magazine), a staff writer at Newport Mercury in Rhode Island and a features reporter at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Her work has appeared in Quartz (QZ.com), Real Simple, Quill, Rhode Island Home & Design, Military Spouse, Newport Patch and several other publications. 
Brandi Broxson is a magazine and digital editor at Naples Daily News in Naples, Florida. Her work has been featured in Orlando Magazine, Orlando Wedding, Naples Illustrated, WHERE Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, Naples Daily News and its sister publications. In addition to Generation-J, she also serves on SPJ's Digital committee as Google+ coordinator. Brandi graduated from the University of Central Florida with a journalism degree and has been part of the ever-changing industry for eight years. She's passionate about social media and story telling and makes a mean to-do list. Read more about her at brandibroxson.com.
Cass Herrington covers local news for WNIN and is the host and producer of The Trend, the weekly public affairs show.
Mike Brannen is a newscast producer for KSTP, the ABC affiliate in Minneapolis-St.Paul. Before that, he was a producer for KIRO7 in Seattle, where he led the 4:30 a.m. show to a #1 share in the U.S. for that time slot. He received an MA in Broadcast Management from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2010 and received his Bachelor of Journalism degree the year before. He shares more about his life at mikebrannen.com.
Jacqueline Ingles is a multimedia journalist for WFTS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Tampa, Florida. She specializes in crime and courts in Pinellas County. She writes, shoots, edits, and fronts her own work while also doing all of her own web work. Prior to WFTS, Jacqueline worked for almost three years at KXAN in Austin, Texas, as a one-woman-band MPJ. While in Texas, she covered the devastating drought and wildfires. Jacqueline's work appeared numerous times on CNN during her time in Austin. Jacqueline also worked at WCTV's Valdosta, Georgia, bureau and at MTV News as a political correspondent during President Barack Obama's campaign. A native of Chicago, Jacqueline received a masters in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She also graduated Summa Cum Laude from Loyola University-Chicago. She held two internships at WBBM and WLS in Chicago. Her print journalism work been published in the Northwest Indiana Times, Chicago Syndicate, Beep!, and the New Mexico Free Press.
Ashley Jost is the higher education reporter at the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri. She covers primarily the University of Missouri's flagship campus, as well as other area colleges and issues pertaining to higher education in Missouri. She previously covered the Missouri legislature during the 2013 session for a small, weekly news magazine. Ashley is a 2014 Scripps graduate and a 2014 Harper Memorial Scholar.
Nikons in hand, Pat Kane covers the stories of the Tri-Cities of Virginia for The Progress-Index of Petersburg. As multimedia editor, on a normal day he'll shoot, write and edit stories while contributing to the paper's social media accounts. Pat joined the Virginia Pro Chapter board in 2008 and he presently serves as chapter vice president. He chaired the 2011 Region 2 Spring Conference hosted in Norfolk, Virginia.
Rob McLean is a digital managing editor for Hearst Television based out of Omaha, Neb. Previously, he served as a local editor for Patch.com in St. Louis. His work has appeared in C-Ville Weekly, The Reader, HearNebraska.org and Omaha Public Radio.
Robert Moran is a Desk Assistant at ABC News. He is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton. He has done internships at Fox News Channel, KABC TV and ABC News. He firmly believes that a diverse newsroom leads to be better storytelling and journalism at its best is great storytelling.
Victoria Reitano is a Digital Producer with The Meredith Vieira Show, launching in September. She also serves as the Co-Chair for The Society of Professional Journalist's Generation J committee. In the past, she served as a Digital Producer with "bethenny" and "LIVE with Kelly and Michael." She also served as a Local Editor for Patch.com and her work has been published in USAToday, The Staten Island Advance and ThisOldHouse.com. She loves dogs, SoulCycle, Yoga and New York City. You can connect with her on Twitter, 
Andrew is a medical journalist for Reuters Health in New York. Before coming to Reuters Health, he was a Kaiser Media Fellow at Reuters’s Washington, D.C. bureau, where he covered the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Lynn Walsh is an Emmy award-winning journalist who has been working in investigative journalism at the national level as well as locally in California, Ohio, Texas and Florida. Currently she leads the KNSD investigative team at the NBC TV station in San Diego, California, where she is the Investigative Executive Producer.