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2023 Fellows

We are pleased to introduce the inaugural cohort of the Tarbell Fellowship. Chosen from a highly competitive pool of over 950 applicants, these early career journalists embark on a year-long programme that includes mentorship, training, and newsroom experience. Fellows will go on to work at top news organisations, bringing their impact-focused perspective to outlets around the world.

Anna Gordon

Anna Gordon

Anna Gordon is a journalist whose work focuses on public health, global development, and economics. Her writing has appeared in The Economist, Al Jazeera, NPR's The Pulse, and others.

Will Henshall

Will Henshall

Will Henshall is a science and technology reporter based in New York City. He holds a masters in chemistry from the University of Oxford and a masters in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Lauren Gilbert

Lauren Gilbert

Part-time

Lauren Gilbert is a research fellow at Open Philanthropy.  She researches possible new cause areas for Open Philanthropy in global health and well-being. Her work has been previously published in The Washington Post and Works in Progress. 

Avi Ackermann

Avi Ackermann

Avi Ackermann is a Eurasia-focused  international affairs journalist based in New York City. He is a Dean's Distinguished Graduate from the University of Texas at Austin with B.A.s in Linguistics and Plan II Honors.

Yasmin Rafiei

Yasmin Rafiei

Yasmin Rafiei is Reporter-in-Residence at the University of California Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. She is also an M.D. candidate at Stanford University. Her journalism focuses on health care reform.

Mathias Gjesdal Hammer

Mathias Gjesdal Hammer

Mathias Gjesdal Hammer is an international affairs journalist based between Washington D.C. and Oslo, Norway. Before becoming a Tarbell Fellow, he worked for Klassekampen, one of Norway’s largest newspapers.

Laura González Salmerón

Laura González Salmerón

Part-time

Laura González Salmerón wears many hats: she’s an investment analyst, a writer, a podcast host and PhD candidate in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford.

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