Sarah Conway of City Bureau and Trina Reynolds-Tyler of the Invisible Institute

Sarah Conway is the senior reporter at City Bureau, a nonprofit journalism lab where she writes intimate narrative stories rooted in investigative and community engagement reporting. Conway covers the beat of survival, examining how Chicagoans navigate and steward their lives in a complex American city still grappling with decades of segregation and a limited social safety net. In this work, she investigates how the workings of local government and public health crises often collide in issues of inaccessible mental health services, police misconduct and gender-based violence.

Trina Reynolds-Tyler is the data director at the Invisible Institute, a journalist and a native of Chicago’s South Side. She leads Beneath the Surface, a data science project employing machine learning to investigate the intersections of gender-based violence and policing. Reynolds-Tyler works to document how communities are forced to create safety and accountability amid systemic shortcomings from the Chicago Police Department. As a data scientist, she centers the practice of narrative justice in her inquiries.