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Megan Burks is the education reporter at KPBS. She reports on teaching and learning from infancy into adulthood, the achievement gap, and school governance. Before tackling the education beat, Megan helped launch Speak City Heights, a media collaborative covering community health in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego. As Speak City Heights reporter for KPBS and Voice of San Diego, Megan's work pushed reform in the San Diego Police Department and taxi industry. She was awarded the San Diego County Taxpayers Association's 2015 Media Watchdog Award for her look at dangerous housing conditions for low-income tenants. Megan has also been recognized by the San Diego Human Relations Commission and Society of Professional Journalists San Diego Pro Chapter for bringing underrepresented voices to radio and television. Megan was born and raised in El Cajon, and graduated from San Diego State University, where she studied journalism and sociology. Her thesis looked at the media’s effects on attitudes toward immigrants. She interned with San Diego CityBeat and KPBS’ Envision San Diego.

Caitlin Johnson is a journalism student at San Diego State University minoring in sociology. Self-taught in photography and other forms of multimedia, she aspires to bring stories to life through various forms of media, entertaining her readers and offering a fresh perspective in the world of journalism.

Alain Stephens is an investigative reporter at inewsource. Stephens started his journalism career as a reporter and producer at KUT, the NPR station in Austin, Texas. There he produced segments for the one-hour daily news show the “Texas Standard” before moving on to investigative work. He has won awards for investigations that uncovered problems with the Texas juvenile justice system and the state’s denial of basic rights for disabled workers. Stephens was a 2016 Reveal Investigative Fellow, where he spent over a year exposing the practice of police agencies selling used weapons that were later used in crimes. Stephens is a graduate from the University of North Texas in Denton, where he studied criminal justice and sociology. He also served in the U.S. Coast Guard and Air Force.