Editorial Advisory Board

Tina Rosenberg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who chairs the MindSite News Editorial Advisory Board. She is Co-Founder & VP for Innovation of the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit learning, training and story distribution hub that works to spread the practice of solutions journalism: rigorous reporting on responses to social problems. She co-authors the Fixes column in The New York Times “Opinionator” section. Her books include “Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America,” and “The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism,” which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. She has written for dozens of magazines, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic. She is the author, most recently, of “Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World.”

Jimmie Briggs is a journalist, author and activist. He currently contributes to Vanity Fair magazine, is a principal at the Skoll Foundation, and an adjunct teacher of documentary journalism at the International Center of Photography. He was a co-founder of Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls, an adjunct professor of investigative journalism at the New School for Social Research, and a George A Miller Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. He has been a National Magazine Award finalist and received honors from the Open Society Institute, National Association of Black Journalists, Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism, the Congressional Black Caucus, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and the Freedom Center in Cincinnati His 2005 book Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War took readers into the lives of war-affected children around the world in half a dozen countries.

Neha Chaudhary, MD, is a writer and medical journalist who writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Wired, CNN, ABC News and the ABC News Medical Unit, and other outlets. She is also a double board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist on faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and cofounder of Brainstorm, Stanford’s Lab for Mental Health Innovation. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and mental health, including using tech to promote early intervention and resilience in children. She is a strong believer in the power of journalism and storytelling to make mental health mainstream.

Susan Ferriss is a senior editor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, D.C. She is a two-time winner of Columbia University’s Tobenkin award for reporting on discrimination. Her investigations have exposed COVID-19 deaths of immigrants and guest workers in the U.S. food industry and the expulsions of rural students in California left to self-educate. Ferriss’s reports on school policing and its impact on children of color and students with disabilities changed policies in California, and also led Virginia to become the first state to bar charging students with disorderly conduct. As a Latin America correspondent for Cox Newspapers, she won honors from the Overseas Press Club and Inter-American Press Association for a series on failed promises of Mexican economic reforms. Ferriss co-wrote The Fight in the Fields, a biography of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez, and produced The Golden Cage, an award-winning documentary about farmworkers.

Dan Fichter is a software engineer and former vice president for engineering at Moat, the former head of engineering and AI at The Trevor Project, and a former volunteer crisis counselor. He also worked for several months at SAMHSA on the 988 and Behavioral Health Crisis Team. Last year, he founded CrisisCrowd, an independent project whose stated mission is “empowering and enabling connections among crisis hotline staff.” Crisis Crowd surveyed hotline call-takers to find out about their training and working conditions, and Dan has become an expert advocate on crisis-response systems. He also has been a generous donor to MindSite News.

Barbara Greenberg, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of adolescents and their parents. She was the director of an inpatient adolescent unit at a psychiatric hospital in New York for 21 years and is now in full-time private practice in Fairfield County, Connecticut. She is the co-author of Teenage as a Second Language – A Parent’s Guide to Becoming Bilingual, which offers parents strategies for decoding their teens’ often baffling behavior and building strong, loving relationships based on trust and respect. She has written regularly for US News & World Report and has a column on teens and mental health in Psychology Today. In addition, she has shared her expertise on a variety of news programs, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CNN, NBC, and Investigation Discovery and has lectured on teen and parenting issues around the country. Born in New York City, Greenberg received a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Patrick J. Kennedy is a former U.S. Representative and founder of The Kennedy Forum. In Congress, Kennedy was the lead author of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which requires insurers to cover treatment for mental health and substance use disorders no more restrictively than treatment for illnesses of the body. In 2013, he founded The Kennedy Forum, a nonprofit that unites advocates, business leaders, and government agencies to advance evidence-based practices, policies, and programming in mental health and addiction. He co-authored the 2015 New York Times Bestseller, “A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction.”

Meg Kissinger is the author of “While You Were Out,” a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness and an exploration of the systems that failed them. She spent more than two decades writing about America’s mental health system for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and has won dozens of accolades, including two George Polk Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and two National Journalism Awards. She is is a trainer for the Dart Center for Trauma and Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos is public editor of PBS, overseeing the station’s editorial integrity and serving as the interlocutor between the audience and PBS’ content creators. He was editor of the online news magazine palabra, (“word” in Spanish), a digital publishing platform featuring the work of freelancers in the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Sandoval-Palos is an award-winning investigative journalist and served as consulting investigative editor for Inside Climate News and 100Reporters. Previously, he was a supervising editor for NPR’s Morning Edition, project manager at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and assistant city editor at The Sacramento Bee. He spent a decade as Latin America correspondent for The Dallas Morning News and San Jose Mercury News. Before that, he was an investigative business reporter for the Orange County Register and San Francisco Examiner, and an associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Sandoval- Palos’ work has been recognized by the Overseas Press Club, the Inter-American Press Association, the Gerald Loeb Awards, Boston College’s Myers Center Awards, and the Greater Los Angeles Press Club.

Jonathan Weber is a veteran journalist who has served as editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Standard and global industry editor for technology at Reuters, where he oversaw business and technology coverage from Reuters’ Asia headquarters in Singapore. He previously served as Reuters’ west coast bureau chief overseeing bureaus in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. He was founding editor of The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit news organization serving the San Francisco Bay Area, and founder and CEO of New West Publishing, a  new media company serving the Rocky Mountain West. He also co-founded and was editor in chief of the Industry Standard, a newsweekly that chronicled the first Internet boom. Prior to that, he was a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Wesleyan University and is currently at work on a book about San Francisco in the tech era.