Shockwaves: Climate, Migration, and Culture in Greece

Amna Cesic is a rising senior at Princeton University studying Public and International Affairs with minors in Journalism and History. Her reporting focuses on politics, international affairs, and social issues, with a particular interest in criminal justice, immigration, and public policy. Through her work in local government, she has collaborated with journalists covering municipal policy and public finance, and as an Ethics of Policy Fellow, she researches alternatives to immigration detention models in Canada.

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 of Journalism at Princeton in 2020.

Luke Grippo is a rising junior, majoring in English and minoring in Journalism and Humanistic Studies. He is excited to be back in Athens, after a trip run in the Fall for completing the Western Humanities Sequence. He is head News editor for The Daily Princetonian, Princeton’s student-run newspaper, and has previously held both senior reporting and assistant editor positions for the paper. He has covered topics ranging from the federal government’s impact on University life, to local and state-level politics, to University decision-making and accountability. Luke is currently deciding whether to pursue law or journalism professionally.

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

Alexander Margulis is a rising Junior at Princeton, majoring in English and pursuing minors in Journalism and Philosophy. He is deeply interested in the artistic possibilities of creative nonfiction. On campus, he serves as a co-Section Head of Second Look, the nonfiction wing of the Nassau Weekly (Princeton’s student-run literary magazine).

Mia Mann-Shafir is a rising senior at Princeton, majoring in Anthropology on the sociocultural track, with minors in Journalism and French. Mia has written mostly nonfiction personal and opinion essays. She has held internships at a local newsroom in the United States and a fashion/art magazine abroad, as well as pursuing volunteer- and work-travel experiences during her college summers. She is particularly interested in thinking and writing about the social and psychology trends prevalent in her generation, largely those stemming from new technologies. She is also interested in migration, foreign languages, and international reporting, and hopes to build a career in Journalism at least partly abroad.

Devonne Piccaver is a rising senior at Princeton University from Cambridgeshire, England. As an English major, she focuses on 19th Century literature and is minoring in journalism. She has written numerous opinions articles for Junior Rowing News, looking at the social inequalities within sport. She has guest contributed for the Daily Princetonian and worked on articles discussing AI’s impact on journalism.

Devon Rudolph will be entering her junior year this fall at Princeton, where she is studying politics with a minor in journalism. Devon grew up in northern Virginia, and has been interested in journalism since the sixth grade. At Princeton, she writes for the Daily Princetonian and serves as the head Podcast editor for the paper. She has also written for a fashion magazine based in Spain, as well as the midwest news outlet Midstory.

Bella Raichelson is an incoming sophomore at Princeton University from Los Angeles, California. She is a prospective major in Politics, as well as a prospective minor in Journalism. She was a student journalist at the Iowa Caucuses in 2024, where she interviewed attendees for her work in the Journal of Student Research, titled Evaluating the Impact of the 2024 Iowa Caucuses on Youth Perception of Politics. She was also a regular contributor to “4 Teens by Teens,” an international politics blog.