Kris Cheng is a journalist based in London, United Kingdom, freelancing for Voice of America. I previously covered politics, Greater China and diplomacy from Hong Kong, mostly with the Hong Kong Free Press.

See my Muck Rack profile: https://muckrack.com/kris-cheng-1

Henry Wilkins is a British multimedia journalist renowned for his extensive coverage of The Sahel region of Africa. Based in the Mumbai region of India, Wilkins is HEFAT certified and has a diverse portfolio that includes creating content for television and radio, primarily for Voice of America. Read moreHis expertise has also led him to appear on international networks such as BBC World Service, France 24, CBC Radio, and Al Jazeera.

Wilkins's journalistic contributions extend to writing for prestigious outlets like The Economist, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, Reuters, BBC, The Atlantic, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, and Vice News. His photojournalism has been featured in many of these publications as well as in the British Journal of Photography, De Standaard, The New Internationalist, NME, and Vice. 

With a career that has seen him based in Burkina Faso and reporting from numerous countries including Israel and the Occupied Territories, the UK, France, Spain, Chad, Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Malawi, Ivory Coast, and South Sudan, Wilkins has consistently covered security and humanitarian crises. His reporting has illuminated the transformation of wildlife reserves into battlegrounds, the complexities of democratic processes in places like Morocco, and the harsh realities of child labor in informal gold mines. Through his work, Wilkins has demonstrated a steadfast commitment to uncovering the multifaceted political, armed conflict, and social issues that shape West Africa and beyond.

Henry Ridgwell is a journalist.

Award-winning photojournalist, journalist and researcher with ten years of experience in journalism, publishing, and communications based in Cambridge, UK but available to travel. 

I work as a foreign correspondent, journalist, photojournalist, and fixer for a variety of media organisations and Read moreinternational human rights organisations from the UK, the USA, Germany, Finland, Switzerland and others. From 2020-2023 I was the communication manager for a global non-profit working on media and diversity.

I have reported from Greece, the wider Balkan region, the UK, Malta and Cyprus I have built a reputation of valid and trustworthy reporting that is trusted by thousands. Through my social media presence, I have managed to create a wide network of contacts and resources.

I focus on humanitarian reporting and politics and my expertise is in migration and refugee issues, European politics, gender and feminism, and social movements and protests. 

In 2017 my story ‘EU-Turkey Deal Fails to Stop Refugee Flow‘ published by Deutsche Welle won a prize at the European Migration Media Award. I am also a member of the National Union of Journalists (UK). In 2015 I was part of the production of 'Macedonia: Tracking Down the Refugee Kidnap Gangs' which won the Foreign Press Association Award for News Story of the Year and the Royal Television Society for the Independent Award.

My book 'Crossing Lines - Climbing Walls: Critical Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century' will be published in the Spring of 2018.

I am currently a PhD researcher in Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. I have a BA in Mediterranean Studies (International Relations and Organisations), University of the Aegean, Greece and an MA in International Relations (Security Studies), University of Birmingham, UK.

Paul Stafford is a journalist and photographer based in Birmingham and London, United Kingdom. He works on a freelance basis and is always on the lookout for new stories and leads. He is interested in everything but specialises in Ukraine, Mexico, South Korea, Scotland and Spain. He's available to Read moretravel to wherever the story may be on short notice. He is set up so that he is available to report at a moment's notice.
He has worked extensively in travel reporting, as well as recently undertaking journalistic assignments across Ukraine and in Crimea.

Saskia ODonoghue is a text and video journalist based in London and East Sussex, United Kingdom.

Her specialisms are human interest stories, culture, the arts, fashion and luxury and entertainment.