Lauren Seaton

Jordan Wirfs-Brock

Jordan Wirfs-Brock is a master’s degree candidate in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado whose interests include data visualization and map-making. She’s written stories about garbage, dairy farming, air pollution, and spider hunters. Jordan has been a science teacher in South Korea and was a content editor for an environmental social media website. She has a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from MIT.

Andrea Sutherland

Andrea Sutherland is a master’s degree candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado. Sutherland has worked for Climbing magazine, the Climbing Wall Association and the University of Colorado in various media roles. When not working, Sutherland enjoys all that Boulder has to offer including rock climbing and snow boarding. Sutherland graduated from DePauw University in 2007.

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Laura Frank

Laura Frank is the executive director of I-News, the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network. I-News delivers multimedia reports to news outlets across the Rocky Mountain region and is a founding member of the national nonprofit Investigative News Network. Frank, a Denver native, has nearly two decades experience at daily newspapers, radio and public television. She was an investigative reporter at the Rocky Mountain News until it closed in 2009. Her stories have won top awards in both print and broadcast, and helped release innocent people from prison, protect abused children, and win aid for sick nuclear weapons workers.

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Jordan Wirfs-Brock

Jordan Wirfs-Brock is a master’s degree candidate in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado whose interests include data visualization and map-making. She’s written stories about garbage, dairy farming,air pollution, and spider hunters. Before moving to Colorado, Jordan was a science teacher in South Korea. She loves to run and is currently training for her seventh marathon.

Lauren Seaton

Lauren Seaton is a second-year master’s degree candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to graduate school, she spent five years with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC, working as a Food and Beverage Manager in Avon, Colo. A New Hampshire native, she graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a Bachelor of Arts degree in writing and studio art. For the past seven years she has called Colorado home.

Andrea Sutherland

Andrea Sutherland is a master’s degree candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado. Sutherland has worked for Climbing magazine, the Climbing Wall Association and the University of Colorado in various media roles. When not working, Sutherland enjoys all that Boulder has to offer including rock climbing and snow boarding. Sutherland graduated from DePauw University in 2007.

Mike Koshmrl

Mike Koshmrl is a second year graduate student at CU, with a focus on environmental journalism. Born, raised and schooled as an undergraduate in Minnesota, he spent his lone year in the real world working as a tutor in a North Minneapolis-division of the AmeriCorps. Since embarking on his ill-timed journalism endeavor, he has written for newspapers in Summit County and Fort Collins, Colo., and Fairbanks, Alaska. In his spare time Mike can be found fly fishing, playing basketball, flailing around on skis, or prone in the cemetery near his house with a good book.

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Jim Sheeler

Jim Sheeler is a “scholar in residence” at the University of Colorado and freelance reporter. He won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing while reporting for the Rocky Mountain News. Sheeler is the author of “Final Salute” (The Penguin Press) and “Obit” (Penguin Group). He previously contributed to “Best Newspaper Writing 2006-2007” (CQ Press), and “Life on the Death Beat,” (Marion Press). Sheeler has won numerous national writing awards and served as a featured guest speaker for military and journalism organizations. He has a B.A. in journalism from Colorado State University and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Colorado.

Laura Frank

Laura Frank is director of I-News, the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network. I-News delivers multimedia reports to news outlets across the Rocky Mountain region and is a founding member of the national nonprofit Investigative News Network. Frank, a Denver native, has nearly two decades experience at daily newspapers, radio and public television. She was an investigative reporter at the Rocky Mountain News until it closed in 2009. Her stories have won top awards in both print and broadcast, and helped release innocent people from prison, protect abused children, and win aid for sick nuclear weapons workers.

Vice President — Brant Houston, Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois, chairman of the National Investigative News Network steering committee and former director of Investigative Reporters and Editors

Secretary/Treasurer — Paul Voakes, Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado

I-News currently is expanding its board of directors. If you know someone who is passionate about public affairs, please recommend that person to I-News.

* partnerships with media outlets to deliver content

* grants and donations

* corporate underwriting

* non-journalism products and services (such as training seminars and specialized data analysis)

This national group includes nonprofit investigative journalism organizations from across the nation — from Voice of San Diego to the Center for Public Integrity, from NPR and PBS to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.

Collaborating on both reporting and the business of operating a nonprofit, network members are able to leverage resources and make their dollars — and their reporting — go farther.

Director Laura Frank currently is supported by a Ted Scripps Fellowship at the University of Colorado.

Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, one the nation’s leading media law firms, is providing pre-publication vetting of stories.

Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner, a top business law firm in Denver, is providing nonprofit startup legal services.

The University of Colorado is providing significant grant and in-kind contributions. I-News is a partner in the new CU Digital Test Kitchen, helping find solutions for the current crisis in American journalism.