Before the official start of the Thanksgiving holiday, we wanted to officially introduce the most recent additions to our growing staff, each of whom plays a key role in our mission to provide evidence-based news, commentary, analysis, and investigative reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice.

Ally Boguhn is the political and campaigns editor at Rewire. She previously worked as an associate research director at Media Matters for America, where she specialized in analyzing media representations of reproductive rights and health. She completed both her BA in communications and art history as well as her MS in professional communications at Clark University, where she researched abortion debate rhetoric.

Kanya D’Almeida is the race and justice reporter at Rewire. Prior to joining the reporting team, she held the post of regional editor for Asia and the Pacific at Inter Press Service (IPS). She has reported from IPS bureaus in Washington, D.C. and the United Nations. She earned her BA at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she pursued a double major in political science and fiction writing. She is a graduate of the School of Authentic Journalism. Her work has appeared on Al Jazeera, Truthout, Alternet and the Margins, among other publications. Originally from Sri Lanka, she currently lives in New York City.

Mikala Jamison is the editorial associate for Rewire. Before joining Rewire, she was arts and culture editor at Philadelphia City Paper, a leading alternative newsweekly, where she wrote stories concerning relationships and sexuality, feminism, substance abuse, and the eccentricities of how local people live their lives. She’s also been the managing editor of the Philadelphia community newspaper, Star, and her work has appeared on the pop culture website Pajiba.com. Outside of journalism, she’s a workshop instructor for the Philly nonprofit Mighty Writers, where she helps young girls develop their writing skills.

Nicole Knight Shine is the Mountain West Region reporting fellow with Rewire. She previously covered county government and transportation for the Orange County Register. Her freelance work has exposed camps that train teens in anti-choice advocacy and revealed the scare tactics of crisis pregnancy centers. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Pacific Standard, and Los Angeles Times.

Jenn Stanley is the Midwest reporting fellow for Rewire. Stanley, who is a journalist, writer, and audio producer living in Chicago, Illinois, has focused on social justice issues and urban affairs. Particular areas of interest include identity, gender, sexuality, and reproductive justice. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Salon, the Windy City Times, and Next City, among others, and she’s worked as a facilitator at StoryCorps. She has an MS in journalism from Northwestern University.

Tina Vasquez is a reporting fellow at Rewire focusing on immigration. Previously, she was a freelance writer and editor with almost ten years of experience, focusing on intersectional feminism, racial justice, and immigration. She is the former associate editor at Black Girl Dangerous and she has contributed to the Guardian, Truthout, Jezebel, Bitch Magazine, and Al Jazeera. She is a 2014 VONA/Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation alumna and the winner of the Media Consortium’s 2015 Impact Award for her story “It’s Time to End the Long History of Feminism Failing Transgender Women.”

Each of these individuals brings to Rewire a wealth of experience and knowledge, and each has a strong background on a variety of human rights issues. They join a fantastic team already in place devoted to bringing you high-quality, evidence-based reporting.

The addition of these incredible individuals is also another page in Rewire’s exciting next chapter, about which you will be hearing more in 2016. It wasn’t so long ago that our staff was small enough to share a cab. But through deliberate and steady growth, we have pursued our goal of becoming a nationally recognized publication, one now reaching nearly eight million unique readers per year, without relying on click-bait or sensationalized stories. Thanks to the generous support of our readers, foundations, and leaders in the reproductive health and justice community, we have grown—and continue to grow!—in editorial, investigations and research, technology, development, and communications. In March next year, we will be taking the next large step by relaunching under a whole new name and new site. We are deeply excited about the future and excited about what we can continue to offer our readers and supporters!