Our Team
Building the future of news.
Global Press team members are journalists, editors, educators and international development professionals. Together, we are driving extraordinary change in the field of journalism.
Our Reporters
Global Press seeks to simultaneously disrupt inequality in the newsroom and in the representation of the people and places we cover. Our team of female reporters come from diverse educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. They represent different races, religions, tribes, castes and generations, which enables them to cover their similarly-diverse communities with knowledge and nuance.

Global Press Leadership

Cristi Hegranes
Chief Executive Officer & Publisher

Laxmi Parthasarathy
Chief Operating Officer
Global Press Journal

Katie Myrick
Creative Director

Jessica Meyers
Editor-in-Chief

Stephen Buckley
Lead Editor

Terry Aguayo
Standards Editor

Bennett Hanson
Researcher

Austin Bachand
Visuals Editor

Sia Choi
Visuals Intern

Sasha Belenky
Editor

Ashley Powers
Editor
Global Press Institute & Global Press News ServiceS

Sam Nesfield
Program Manager

Manori Wijesekera
Global Training Manager

Caitlin Salins
Global Operations Administrator

Munkhchimeg Davaasharav (Muugii)
Journalism Trainer, Mongolia

Mareike Günsche
Photojournalism Trainer

Christian EscobarMora
Photojournalism Trainer
Global Press Board

Anne Avis
Chair

Benjamin McKee
Member

Cristi Hegranes
Chief Executive Officer & Publisher

Dr. Geetha Murali
Member

Emily Kaiser
Member

George Woods
Member

Keith Woods
Member

Linda Shostak
Secretary

Michelle Swenson
Treasurer

Umbreen Bhatti
Member