front row (sitting) left to right: N. Carroll, C. Lozada, K. Lytle Hernández, E. Alexander, E. Ramshaw, M. Miller, N. Barnes; back row left to right: J. Archibald, A. Applebaum, N. Trethewey, S. Chan, G. Thompson, G. Escobar, K. Merida, D. Remnick, V. T. Nguyen, G. Chua (absent: C. Shipman, J. Cobb). (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)
Ginger Thompson is a managing editor at ProPublica. A Pulitzer Prize winner, she previously spent 15 years at The New York Times as the Mexico City bureau chief and as an investigative reporter. Her work has exposed the consequences of Washington’s policies in Latin America, particularly policies involving immigration, political upheaval and the fight against drug cartels.
Sewell Chan is an editor, writer, and innovator. He joined CCLP as a Senior Fellow in April 2025, focusing on the fight for press freedom, in the US and abroad.
Previously, Chan served in 2024-25 as editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and as an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School.
John Archibald, a two-time Pulitzer winner, is a reporter and columnist at AL.com, and an award-winning podcaster. Archibald won the Pulitzer for Commentary in 2018 for his “lyrical and courageous” columns. He also was the lead reporter on AL.com’s 2023 Local Reporting Prize-winning investigation of out-of-control policing in the tiny Alabama town of Brookside.
Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th poet laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Native Guard (2006) — for which she was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize — and, most recently, Monument: Poems New and Selected (2018); a book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010); a memoir, Memorial Drive (2020), an instant New York Times Bestseller; and The House of Being (2024), a meditation on writing.
Gina Chua is executive editor and a member of the founding team of the global news startup Semafor.
Prior to joining Semafor, she was executive editor at Reuters, where she previously managed the graphics department, helped build a world-class data and computational journalism team, and oversaw the creation of the ground-breaking Connected China app, which tracked power and relationships among China’s elite. She drove development of Tracer, a machine-learning system that algorithmically detected and verified newsworthy events on X, previously called Twitter.
Claire Shipman, CC ‘86, SIPA ‘94, was appointed Acting President of Columbia University in March 2025. A longtime leader within the Columbia community, Shipman has served on Columbia’s Board of Trustees since 2013 and was elected Co-Chair in 2023. She is an award-winning journalist and an author and leading voice for the advancement of women’s leadership.
