A TEACHING LAB DEDICATED TO INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Meet the Students
Our mission follows the Missouri Method of learning by doing. WWG student researchers work with experienced investigative journalists writing books for major publishers.
The Students 2025-2026
Cayli Yanagida
Cayli Yanagida is a second-year graduate student with an emphasis in cross-platform editing and producing at the University of Missouri.
Maggie LeBeau
Maggie LeBeau is a sophomore at the University of Missouri studying journalism and history.
Laine Cibulskis
Laine Cibulskis is a senior studying journalism and economics at the University of Missouri. She covered international trade in Brussels for MLex in the fall of 2024.
Ivy Reed
Ivy Reed is a junior at the University of Missouri majoring in journalism and women and gender studies.
Amber Roldan
Amber Roldan is a senior in the accelerated masters program studying reporting and writing with a women and gender studies minor.
Cristal Sanchez
Cristal Sanchez is a bilingual reporter at the University of Missouri focused on solutions journalism and covering marginalized communities.
Students 2024 – 2025
Paige Gerling
Paige Gerling graduated from the University of Missouri in May 2025 with degrees in journalism and political science.
Bryan Chou
Bryan Chou is now a freelance reporter and fact checker for the Guardian and other major publications.
Anna Colletto
Anna Colletto is now a reporter at the Tulsa Flyer, a new nonprofit newsroom in Oklahoma.
Emma Flannery
Emma Flannery graduated from the the University of Missouri School of Journalism in May 2025.
Students 2023
Valerie Nava
Valerie Nava is now an education lab reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. She reports on K-12 and higher education.
Evy Lewis
Evy Lewis is now working full-time as a daily reporter at the Daily Southtown, a subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune.
Sophia Anderson
Sophia is a senior at the University of Missouri studying journalism and sociology.
Anna Colletto
Anna Colletto is now a reporter at the Tulsa Flyer, a new nonprofit newsroom in Oklahoma.
Students 2022
Claudia Rivera-Cotto
Claudia Rivera-Cotto now covers political, government and immigration issues in North Carolina for Enlace Latino NC.
Beatričė Bankauskaitė
Beatričė Bankauskaitė earned her master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in May 2023.
Jana Rose Schleis
Jana Rose Schleis is now a reporter at KBIA, Mid-Missouri’s public radio station, and an instructor at the Missouri School of Journalism.
Teghan Simonton
Teghan Simonton is now a data reporter on the health and business team for Tampa Bay Times.
Amethyst Mavis Chan
Amethyst Mavis Chan is a graduate student at Northwestern University Medill School.
Students 2021
Students 2020
Lessons from the Field: Thursday, April 2, 2026
New York Times Magazine Writer Caleb Gayle
Introduction: Laine Cibulskis, senior at the Missouri School of Journalism and WWG student researcher
Lessons from the Field: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Michelle García, Winner of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize
Introduction: Ivy Reed, junior at the Missouri School of Journalism and WWG student researcher
Pamela Colloff
New York Times Magazine
February 2026
Ted Genoways
Food & Environment Reporting Network
February 2026
