Midwest Mujeres Inc. is a mentorship collective for multicultural women’s entrepreneurial or career growth. They focus on storytelling, networking, mentoring, marketing, and helping Latinas build their platforms to close the wage gap for all women.

Justin Barney is an audio journalist and radio host who has worked at 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and Nashville Public Radio. He occasionally writes for NPR and his podcast work has been lauded by the “New York Times.”

Alexandra Salmon is an independent audio producer who has a background in clinical social work and cancer education. She is drawn to stories about human complexity. When she doesn’t have her headphones on, you can find Alexandra hanging out with her family, forcing herself to run, or eating anything sour.

The “Home Is Here” project looks at the growing number of Black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic residents who call northeastern Wisconsin home. The project is part of the NEW (Northeast Wisconsin) News Lab – a local news collaboration in northeastern Wisconsin made up of six news organizations: the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Appleton Post-Crescent, FoxValley365, The Press Times, Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Watch.

Dusty Weis is the host of the “Lead Balloon” podcast, a Milwaukee-based freelance podcast producer and a former radio news reporter.

Tone Madison is a worker-owned, reader-supported website covering culture and politics in Madison. They publish fiercely independent journalism that treats culture in Madison as the complex subject it is.

Jen Rubin is a producer at Love Wisconsin, a statewide digital storytelling program of Wisconsin Humanities; co-producer of the Moth StorySlam in Madison; author of We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood; and leads storytelling workshops around the state (from libraries to prisons to organizations to community gatherings.)

Saemee Kim is a 2023 graduate of UW-Madison Communication Arts: Radio-TV-Film undergraduate who has lived in Wisconsin for 16 years. She’s is a storyteller and an aspiring filmmaker who hopes to gather and enliven stories around the world by starting with “Wisconsin Life.”