JAWS CAMP 2016

Marissa Evans is a health/human services policy reporter at the Texas Tribune. Previously, she was a health policy reporter for CQ Roll Call, where she wrote about Congress and how they're tackling Indian Health Service, Medicaid and mental health services. She also covered how state governments are working on public health issues. Her reporting has appeared in Cosmo for Latinas, Civil Eats, Kaiser Health News, The Seattle Times, The Washington... Read More →

Justine Griffin is a business reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and the vice president of the Journalism & Women Symposium. She has covered business news at daily newspapers across Florida. She most recently worked as the assistant projects editor at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, where she used her admirable digital and social media skills to engage readers with the paper’s most ambitious projects. There she also lead efforts to launch a... Read More →

Nicole Raz is a multimedia economics reporter in Las Vegas, Nev. Nikki is currently covering economic development, business and tech at The Las Vegas Review-Journal and freelancing for Ecologic Radio, covering economics and agriculture.

Liz Seegert has spent more than 30 years reporting and writing about health and general news topics for print, digital and broadcast media. Her primary beats currently include aging, social determinants and health policy. She is topic editor on aging for the Association of Health Care Journalists, reporting on the many health issues affecting older adults. Liz is a co-producer of “HealthStyles” on WBAI-FM in New York and the media fellows... Read More →

Stephanie Yamkovenko is a professional journalist and digital editor with 10 years of journalism experience. Stephanie hand-coded her first website in the 1990s and now manages the editorial content of a website averaging 300,000 monthly visitors. Stephanie is also responsible for social media strategy and content, e-newsletter production and distribution, multimedia development and news reporting for the web, magazine and blogs. Stephanie... Read More →