Category: Participants

Megan Cameron is a rising senior in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs with a minor in Journalism. She is a Staff Writer for the News section of The Daily Princetonian and The Princeton Legal Journal. She also conducts research with Princeton’s Afghanistan Policy Lab and serves as a Student Fellow in Princeton’s Program on Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations. Previously, she worked with the USDA Forest Service in Asheville, North Carolina, as a Science Writing and Communications Intern. She is passionate about security studies and foreign policy, and is interested in exploring how those topics are influenced by environmental issues and natural disasters.

Recent Works:

A Struggle for Survival: Exploring Open-Air Cinemas and Greek Authenticity

Pushed to the Brink: Family of Parian Fishermen Anticipates Extinction

Valerio Castellini is a member of Princeton’s Class of 2028. He plans to major in Public & International Affairs and minor in Journalism and History and the Practice of Diplomacy. He is a contributing writer for The Daily Princetonian’s Features section. His reporting interests include migrant integration into receiving societies, cultural promotion, and grassroots civic engagement efforts.

Recent Works:

Listening to Exarcheia

A Town Built on Ruins, Now Facing Its Own

How to Ruin a “Perfect” Island

The Architecture of Loss

As Foreign Aid Dries, Refugees in Greece Lose Essential Lifelines (Final Project)

Isabella Dail is a Managing Editor for The Daily Princetonian, where she oversees The Prospect (Arts & Culture), Features, Archives, and Humor sections. She has contributed news and culture reporting to the ‘Daily Prince,’ particularly on Princeton’s local arts scene. She has worked at the Voice of America as a reporter in the News Hub, where she primarily covered cultural events and presidential campaign finance. She also reported from the White House on gun policy. Her interests include open source investigations and arts reporting.

Recent Works:

Potato Production in Naxos faces pressure

Pursuing Local Life in Pangrati

Mara DuBois is planning to major in public policy in Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs with a minor in journalism. She is a writer for the Features section of The Daily Princetonian. She has also worked for The Jackson Hole Daily, collaborating on pieces reporting on current events at the local, national, and international levels. She is particularly interested in exploring connections between politics, culture, and individual stories through her reporting.

Recent Works:

The People of Pangrati

Paros Citizens’ Movement Against Overdevelopment: “Eventually, tourism can kill tourism”

A Source of Light: HipHop4Hope

Annalisa Jenkins is a Sophomore Spanish major from Baltimore, Maryland. She is pursuing minors in Journalism, Latin American Studies and Statistics, with a focus on migration and environmental movements. She has previously reported on the exploitation of immigrants in the workforce and in the housing system and is working on an ongoing project on environmental sovereignty movements in Bolivia, Puerto Rico and Baltimore. In Greece, she is particularly interested in exploring climate migration and the Greek housing crisis.

Recent Works:

Lexikopoleio: Place that Travels You

The Identity of Memory: Honoring History in the Face of Change

Dry Wells: Farming in the Cyclades Amid Drought and Overtourism

Thirty Year-Old-Trucks and Clandestine Forest Management: One Volunteer Fire Station’s Quest to Protect its Forest

Samuel Kennedy is a senior majoring in Near Eastern Studies, with minors in Journalism and Hellenic Studies. As an American who was born and raised in Egypt, he holds a deep interest in intercultural and interfaith interactions, particularly through the lens of migration. For the journalism department at Princeton, his past work covers a range of topics, including: the plight Gazan Christians, the history of immigrant punk rock, and the poisoning of Egypt’s stray dogs.

Noah LaBelle grew up in Central Massachusetts before moving to Seattle. He writes. He thinks, too, but finds the former steadies the latter. At Princeton, through the Program in Journalism, he has reported on knuckleball pitchers, consequentialist philosophers, and formerly incarcerated advocates registering voters with felony records in Philadelphia. Before joining the Class of 2028, he lived in Dakar, Senegal, for nine months. He plans to study public policy, development economics, and Africa.

Recent Works:

She Fled Iran Years Ago. Then The Bombs Fell.

This Man Came From Pakistan to Deliver Your Coffee, Pronto

The Pine Cone and The Pythia

Ritual Dept.: Higher Power, Bum Bags, and an Open Mic

Maggie Stewart is a member of Princeton’s class of 2028, planning to major in anthropology with minors in environmental studies and journalism. She is a staff reporter for WPRB, Princeton’s student-run radio station, where she produces audio podcasts for the News and Culture section and manages social media and marketing. Her reporting often explores the intersection between culture, climate, and politics.

Recent Works:

Cheesemaking in the Cyclades: The Struggle to Maintain Tradition in a Changing Climate

Dramamine and Drought: Greece’s Fragile Climate Crisis

Ask Me About Sea Turtles: The People Protecting Greece’s Ancient Aquatic Creatures

Vivien Wong is majoring in history, with a focus on twentieth-century American political movements and intellectual life. She is an editor of the Nassau Literary Review and staff writer in the News section of The Daily Princetonian. She’s previously reported on rural primary schools in China and payday loans in Wisconsin.

Latest Articles

How to Fix a Crisis

Saving Potato Island

A Postcard from Distomo

Other Words for ‘Expat’

Prof. Eliza Griswold, a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter, is a Ferris Professor and Director of Journalism at Princeton.

Prof. Rachel Donadio is a Paris-based journalist, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. She has reported on Greece extensively as Rome Bureau Chief and European Culture Correspondent of The New York Times, including interviewing five prime ministers of Greece and one former poet laureate. She has also reported from Lesbos for The Atlantic. She was a visiting Ferris Professor in 2020.