Eric Ortiz
Eric Ortiz is the executive editor of Community Based News Room (CBNR). A journalist and innovator with two decades in digital media, Ortiz is the former managing editor of Truthdig. Previously, he founded Evrybit, an all-in-one app for mobile storytelling. He also launched NESN.com as the founding editor, helping grow the site into the most popular regional sports website in the United States, and was a digital editor in the early days of ESPN.com. In 2013, he was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. He is a champion for diversity in media and lives in Santa Monica, Calif.
Chaumtoli Huq
Chaumtoli Huq founded Law@theMargins in 2013 and serves as its Editor-In-Chief. Huq is a social justice innovator with extensive experience in movement lawyering, litigation, public policy, management and creation of programs from emerging trends in law, teaching, assisting non-profits and individuals with strategic direction and governance issues mainly in areas of labor, human rights both in the United States and South Asia.
Elbert Garcia
Elbert Garcia is a Dominican-American writer and communications strategist based in Miami, Florida, that is dedicated to helping individuals and organizations organize their community voices for change. Over the last two decades, he has worked in both traditional power-wielding institutions and alternative, community-based, power-building organizations. A National Urban Fellow alumnus born and raised in Washington Heights, N.Y., his most recent projects include work with D.C.-based immigration advocacy organization America’s Voice and the New Florida Majority, a civil and political rights organization dedicated to empowering Florida’s diverse communities.
