Lois Raimondo is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Reed College of Media, West Virginia University. She began her journalism work translating for CBS News in China during President Reagan’s presidential trip to Beijing. At the time, she was a graduate student living in a remote Chinese village collecting folktales for a master's degree in comparative literature. Raimondo lived and worked full-time in Asia for 10 years, including four years as chief photographer for the Associated Press in Hanoi, Vietnam. As one of the first American reporters into north Vietnam since the Vietnam War, she explored and reported on every aspect of the emerging new-economy society. Raimondo went on to specialize in conflict and human rights stories, smuggling in over the Himalayan mountains mid-winter to report on martial-lawed Tibet and Indian Kashmir.

Prior to teaching at WVU, Raimondo was a staff photographer at The Washington Post for ten years, covering everything from a local organic Virginia farm to the anti-American uprising in Iraq and the Ramadan Offensive in Afghanistan.

While still an intern, her investigative series on corruption in Mitchell Lama Housing for New York Newsday was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. In 2005, she was awarded the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to report on the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan. She spent the year working in the northwest frontier provinces of Balochistan and Waziristan. She won the Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 2002 for her frontline reporting on the war in Afghanistan.

A native of Sweden, Torsten Kjellstrand started teaching at the University of Oregon after 25 years of work as a writer, photographer and filmmaker. He worked at The Herald in Jasper, Indiana, where he was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year by POYi. While working at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, then The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, he was recognized for a broad range of work, from Lowell Thomas Awards for travel writing and photography to an Overseas Press Club Award for foreign news.

Throughout his journalism career, Kjellstrand has tried to tell stories that go beyond and challenge stereotyping in rural, Native American, and immigrant communities. He cut his narrative teeth as an English major at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, followed by a Fulbright Scholarship to study comparative literature at Uppsala University in Sweden. He spent a year as a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2003-04, studying links between ethnicity, language, landscape and storytelling. He then worked as a freelance photographer and filmmaker in New York City before coming to Eugene in 2013.