Cristiana Lombardo is an editor at HISTORY.com and documentary producer. Before joining HISTORY, she was a multimedia producer for American Masters, PBS' long-running biography series.

Teri Agins is an award-winning journalist and author, the former senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal, where she developed the Journal's fashion industry beat over three decades. She is the author of Hijacking the Runway, How Celebrities are Stealing the Spotlight From Fashion Designers and The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever.

Deborah Lynn Blumberg is a Maryland-based writer and editor and the president of the Washington D.C. chapter of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her work has appeared in publications including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and MarketWatch. She’s building a collection of artifacts from the former New York City department store her family owned, Gertz. Find her at deborahlynnblumberg.com

New York writer Brian Boucher has written for publications including The New York Times, Playboy, CNN, New York Magazine, Frieze, Cultured, Art in America and ARTnews. He has been interviewed on WNYC, the BBC and NPR.

Alan Clendenning is a freelance journalist who worked more than 25 years for The Associated Press as a reporter, bureau chief and editor based in South America, Europe and the United States. He was raised in New Hampshire and now splits his time between Phoenix and Madrid.

Stephanie Forshee is a Brooklyn-based writer and author of Hidden Gems: Margaret Getchell LaForge. She has published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and more.

Sarah Katz is a deaf freelance journalist, essayist, and poet based in Northern Virginia. Learn more about her work at sarahbeakatz.com or sign up for her Substack, Needs Editing.

David Lauterborn is the former editor of the award-winning magazines Military History and Wild West. He and wife Jill hail from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the original “gateway to the West” for Corps of Discovery co-captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who mapped much of our nascent nation for the Army.

Tom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist based in London who writes mainly about science, archaeology, history, the earth, the oceans and space.

Kallie Moore manages the University of Montana paleontology collection and is a host and content consultant for the YouTube channel PBS Eons. Her debut children's book, "Tales of the Prehistoric World" was released by Neon Squid in 2002 and she is an Executive Producer of the film "Why Dinosaurs?" (2024).

Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist who has covered science for Smithsonian, Scientific American, Live Science and more.

Mark Piesing, a freelance journalist based in Oxford, UK, was a finalist for Media Aviation Awards in both 2024 and 2025. He is author of N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia. Learn more more at markpiesing.com or follow him @MarkPiesing.

Ale Russian is a writer, reporter and communications professional with work published in multiple nationally recognized titles.

Katie Gee Salisbury is the author of Not Your China Doll, a new biography of Anna May Wong, Hollywood's first Asian American movie star. She also writes the Substack Half-Caste Woman.

Zach Schonfeld is a freelance journalist and critic based in New York. He was formerly a senior writer at Newsweek. His most recent book, "How Coppola Became Cage," a biography of Nicolas Cage, was published in 2023.

In these quiet days leading up to her PowerBall win, writer and editor Ann Shields lives in NYC with her family. She likes museums, road trips, local bars, getting lost and laughing.

Adam M. Sowards is a historian and writer based in western Washington. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning An Open Pit Visible from the Moon: The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest and Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. He is currently writing a history of the national park system.

Elana Spivack is a journalist with bylines in Scientific American, Slate, Popular Science and more. She lives in New York City with her tuxedo cat.

John Stapleton IV is an award-winning journalist and wildlife enthusiast. He is the author of Hidden Gems: Business Basics for Kids.

Jack Tamisiea is a freelance journalist and science writer based in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic and several other popular publications. You can read more of his work at jacktamisiea.com