Medill News Service Reporters
Rashida Anderson-Abdullah
Rashida Sherie Anderson-Abdullah is a graduate of Des Moines Area Community College and the University of Illinois—Chicago, graduating in 2019 with a B.A. in political science. In her reporting, she covers education, public safety, and arts and entertainment. She is currently a graduate student journalist at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism where she specializes in politics, policy and foreign affairs.
Molly Burke
Molly Burke is a senior in the Medill Investigative Lab through the accelerated master’s program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She is studying investigative journalism and will receive a bachelor’s and master’s in journalism, as well as a minor in legal studies. She covers the politics beat for the Medill News Service. She previously has worked covering daily news for The Sacramento Bee and The Denver Post. She also worked as a data journalist for the Bay City News Foundation through the Dow Jones News Fund.
Margaret Fleming
Margaret Fleming is a graduate student in the Medill Investigative Lab specialization. She covers the sports beat for the Medill News Service. In 2022, she graduated early from Medill, where she broadcast Northwestern games and directed podcasts at WNUR Sports. She has interned with CNBC’s investigative team, The Colorado Sun and Pittsburgh’s NPR station.
Lynn Liu
Lynn Yunfei Liu is a Medill News Service reporter and graduate student at Northwestern focusing on business, finance and global markets. Before her time at Medill, Lynn had reporting experience at Xinhua News (food desk), Jiemian News (energy desk) and NBC Beijing (2022 Beijing Winter Olympics group). She graduated from Wuhan University in China in 2021, majoring in Chinese language and literature.
Joslyn Lopez-Richardson
Joslyn Lopez-Richardson is a graduate student at Northwestern Medill specializing in the Politics, Policy and Foreign Affairs program. Before her time at Medill, she graduated from Purdue University with a BA in Political Science and Economics. She also spent time working as a Constituent Service Representative in immigration from the United States Senate.
Kaila Nichols
Kaila Nichols is a senior in the accelerated master’s program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Upon graduation, she will receive both her bachelor’s in journalism as well as her master’s in journalism with a specialization in politics, policy and foreign affairs. She covers the politics beat for the Medill News Service. Her past experience includes anchoring and producing the Northwestern News Network and writing for The Daily Northwestern. This summer, she interned at Good Morning America where she wrote scripts and produced stories.
Dante Nieto
Dante Nieto (Erik Dante Nieto) is a graduate of Goddard College with a concentration in global politics, Journalism, and Economics. Now a graduate student at Northwestern University, they cover politics and immigration as a reporter for Medill News Service.
Emma Ricketts
Emma Ricketts is a graduate student at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, where she specializes in Politics, Policy and Foreign Affairs. Prior to Medill, she practiced as a lawyer in New Zealand focusing on climate-related risk and public law issues. She earned her undergraduate degrees in law, history and French at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington.
Evan Robinson-Johnson
Evan Robinson-Johnson is a Medill Investigative Lab member focusing on video and feature reporting. The Boston native also covers race and immigration for the Medill News Service. After earning a bachelors in journalism from Northwestern University, he reported on health and education for the Jackson Hole News&Guide, earning a Wyoming Press Association first place award for feature writing.
Monica Sager
Monica Sager is a graduate student at Northwestern Medill specializing in the Investigative Lab program. She covers education for the Medill News Service. Before her time at Medill, she graduated from Clark University with an MS in Communications and a BA in Journalism and Psychology. Monica has previously worked and freelanced for Central Mass Town Square, The Telegram & Gazette, WGBH, The Week UK, The Big Easy, The Forward and more.
Susanti Sarkar
Susanti Sarkar is a graduate student at Northwestern’s Medill School specializing in the Investigative Lab program, with an interest in print and video reporting. She has a Bachelors in Science from the University of California, San Diego and spent more than a year in India reporting on social justice issues including the farmers’ protests and inequality in marginalized communities.
Grant Schwab
Grant Schwab is a government bureaucrat turned journalist. He has a Master’s degree in public policy and previously worked as a state budget analyst in North Carolina. He currently covers demographics for the Medill News Service.
Christina van Waasbergen
Christina van Waasbergen is an accelerated master’s student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, completing both the final year of her bachelor’s degree with a double major in journalism and political science as well as a master’s in journalism with a specialization in politics, policy and foreign affairs concurrently. Christina covers politics for the Medill News Service. She previously reported for The Daily Northwestern, spent a quarter covering immigration for the Medill News Service as an undergraduate and completed a journalism residency in Phoenix, Arizona covering health issues for The Arizona Republic.
Pingping Yin
Pingping Yin is a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in the Politics, Policy and Foreign Affairs program. Prior to Medill, Pingping was a reporter from the News Features Department at Xinhua Daily Telegraph, a newspaper owned by the China State News Agency, Xinhua. There, she covered feature stories related to policy changes in various areas, including healthcare and education.