CEO
Mother Jones

Monika Bauerlein is CEO of Mother Jones, the American Society of Magazine Editors’ 2017 Magazine of the Year. Previously, she served as co-editor with Clara Jeffery, who is now editor-in-chief. Together, they spearheaded an era of editorial growth and innovation, marked by tenfold growth in audience and newsroom staff. As CEO, Bauerlein has focused on expanding MoJo’s journalistic capacity on core beats and signature investigations—such as 2016’s private prison expose and MoJo’s scoop on the Russia memos—while developing a new business model built on engagement and reader support. In the past she has also worked as an alt-weekly editor, political reporter, corporate trainer, sausage slinger and fishing-line packager. She lives in Oakland.

Executive Editor
Grist

Nikhil Swaminathan, an award-winning journalist and the Executive Editor of Grist, the nation’s leading environmental news site, oversees a distributed nonprofit newsroom of 15 journalists. Previously, he led the publication's coverage of Environmental Justice, and he's held editorial positions at Scientific American, Al Jazeera America, GOOD, and Archaeology. Prior to joining Grist, Nikhil was an inaugural Ida B. Wells Fellow at Type Investigations.

Publisher
San Francisco Public Press

Lila LaHood is Publisher of the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit news organization producing local public-interest journalism online, in a quarterly newspaper and on KSFP 102.5 FM in San Francisco. A graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and of Stanford, she is a member of San Francisco’s Sunshine Ordinance Task Force and the board of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter.

Publisher
CalMatters

Marcia Parker is Publisher of CalMatters, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization covering California state government. Formerly Editorial Director for Patch's West Coast local news sites, CIR's California Watch site launch manager, and Assistant Dean at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, Marcia serves on the Institute for Nonprofit News board, the Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowships selection committee, and also teaches at Northwestern University's SF campus.