Zack is the founder and executive director of Military Veterans in Journalism. For more than 15 years, he has reported from the frontlines of the world’s conflicts, including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Crimea, Kashmir and the West Bank. He most recently lived in the Central African Republic, reporting for the New York Times, Washington Post, AP, and many other publications. Zack previously served in the U.S. military and in the U.S. Peace Corps in Romania. He also worked for the U.S. Special Operations Command in Afghanistan, for U.S. Central Command in Tampa, and for the media development organization Internews in South Sudan.

Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the executive director of the Native American Journalists Association, a nonprofit membership organization advocating accurate coverage of Indigenous people in media and free press in Indian Country. She is a former editor of the Mvskoke News, and currently serves as president of the Mvskoke Media Editorial Board. She is directing her first documentary feature film, VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, which follows the story of free press within the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma. She was a recipient of the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s “Native American 40 Under 40” award in 2018. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma, where she studied public relations and Native American studies. She enjoys slurping ramen in Los Angeles with her husband Garrett Baker and their many plant babies.

Carla Murphy is a journalist, editorial consultant and J-educator who created, Leavers, a survey of 101 journalists of color who left the industry. She is vice president and a board member of the Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS).

What perspective she will bring to the council: Carla is primarily interested in expanding democratic participation within racialized, low-income,geographic or other communities, and improving the wages and welfare of non-managerial journalism staff and freelancers.

Janine Warner is the co-founder and executive director of SembraMedia. She also has a Knight Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists. Over the last decade, Janine has worked with thousands of journalists and digital media entrepreneurs in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. She has also traveled extensively to deliver keynotes and lead seminars at conferences, events, and universities. In 2015, she co-founded SembraMedia with Mijal Iastrebner of Argentina. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to increasing the diversity of voices in Spanish by helping digital media entrepreneurs become more sustainable, independent news organizations. SembraMedia provides business and technical training, market intelligence, networking opportunities, consulting and financial support to media throughout the region. The diverse team represents a regional network of more than 800 digital publishers in 20 countries in Latin America, the U.S., and Spain.

Sisi Wei is the Co-Executive Director of OpenNews and in 2020, she launched the DEI Coalition for Anti-Racist, Equitable, and Just Newsooms. The Coalition is co-creating with over 100 members of the community, two digital organizing spaces for journalists to organize, take collective action, and share knowledge in the service of a more equitable journalism industry. Sisi’s current work also includes Vision25, a partnership between OpenNews, the Online News Association, and the Maynard Institute, to build journalistic institutions where newsrooms are actively anti-racist and collaborative, and journalists of color feel like they truly belong. Previously, Sisi was the Assistant Managing Editor at ProPublica, during which she edited news apps, graphics, visual investigations, and large, interdisciplinary projects.