Jessica Derschowitz is a New York-based writer and editor covering film, TV, theater and pop culture. You can read her work in Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire and more.

Francisco Alvarado is an investigative journalist based in Miami, Florida.

Tristan Balagtas is a Las Vegas-based crime writer and reporter. She previously reported for People and TV news stations in Washington and Texas. Tristan graduated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

Sandy Banks was a member of the Los Angeles Times' reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its riot coverage Her 36-year career at the newspaper included serving as a reporter, editorial writer, assistant metropolitan editor, and director of the newsroom's diversity efforts. She is best known for her Times columns, which offered a personal perspective on social and economic issues and served as a voice for the ignored, unknown, or unheard. She is now a senior fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center on Communication, Leadership and Policy.

Lyna Bentahar is a reporter based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Lever, and The Diamondback, among other outlets. She covers a wide range of subjects, including corporate and criminal justice.

Sanjana Bhambhani is a New York-based journalist and documentarian whose work appears on the BBC, The Rachel Maddow Show and New York Focus among other outlets. She covers a spectrum of subjects including police misconduct, the justice system, space science and women's history.

Caroline Bissonnette is a freelance feature writer and journalist who covers community issues, social movements and the people behind them. In addition to A&E Crime + Investigation, her reporting has also appeared on the BBC and Katie Couric Media. Based in Brooklyn, she is the editor and lead writer of the Recipe for Abundance community newsletter.

Reshma Patricia Crawford is a freelance writer and aspiring novelist whose short stories and music reviews have been published in literary magazines and on digital media platforms. She has also spent a decade working as an Associate Producer and a Development Producer on nonfiction television series for A&E, Hulu, Lifetime, National Geographic, Smithsonian Channel and Animal Planet. Reshma holds an MFA in Screenwriting from Hollins University and currently lives in Culver City, Calif.

Bella Czajkowski is a journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. She covers primarily politics, tech and crime. She holds a BA in Public Affairs Journalism from Ohio State University and an MS in investigative reporting from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.