Cristal Sanchez

Cristal Sanchez

Cristal Sanchez

Cristal Sanchez is a bilingual reporter at the University of Missouri focused on solutions journalism and covering marginalized communities. She is a senior who is interning with the Missouri Afterschool Network where she lobbies for afterschool programs and is involved with their political communications. Cristal previously interned for Spotlight Delaware, where she helped grow their Hispanic audience. She also wrote for the Missouri Business Alert, publishing the outlet’s first Spanish news-story and is the co-founder of ¿De Veras?, a mid-Missouri Spanish-language news outlet.

MOLLY O’TOOLE

Fellow

Molly O’Toole
Molly O’Toole is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, working on “The Route,” a nonfiction book on global migration through the Americas to the United States.

Workshops / Events

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