Senior Lecturer: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Founder and Board President: Health Equity Initiative; Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health; Author: Health Communication: From Theory to Practice

To discuss President Obama's request for $1.8b to fight the Zika virus, we FEATURE Renata Schiavo. Dr. Schiavo is a public health, global health, social innovation, and health communication specialist with more than 20 years of experience in a variety of settings, including the United States and several countries in Europe, Latin America and Africa. She is Founding President of Health Equity Initiative, a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to building and sustaining a global community that engages across sectors and disciplines to advance health equity. Her recent work has focused on health equity/health disparities, maternal and child health, public health and humanitarian emergencies, epidemics and emerging diseases. Media includes: The Signal, Folha de Sao Paulo, Journal of Communication in Healthcare, The Nation's Health, Bloomberg News, Sisgi Group

Columnist/ Political analyst

With tensions rising as a Chicago cop sues for trauma after he shot and killed a teen and his neighbor, we FEATURE Laura Washington. Laura is a Chicago Sun-Times columnist and political analyst for ABC 7, Chicago’s ABC-owned station. Washington brings more than two award-winning decades of experience as a non-profit professional and multi-media journalist. She specializes in African-American affairs, local and national politics, race and racism, and social justice. Washington is widely quoted and featured in the national media, including Time Magazine, the Associated Press, New York Times, NBC Nightly News, MNSBC, PBS News Hour and the BBC.

Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy

Following the reported drowning of another 27 migrants off Turkey - bringing the total number of people who have died attempting to reach Europe to over 400 so far this year - we FEATURE Margie McHugh. McHugh is the Director of the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy at the Migration Policy Institute. The Center is a national hub for leaders in government, community affairs, business, and academia to obtain the knowledge and skills they need to respond to the challenges and opportunities that today's high rates of immigration pose for local communities across the United States. Media includes: Associated Press, Washington Post, Voice of America, New York Daily News, New York Sun

Regulatory, Public Policy & Government Affairs

As India blocks Facebook's new free internet app, we FEATURE Lauren Wilson. Lauren works on a broad range of Internet, media and telecommunications issues and advocates for the public interest before the Federal Communications Commission, Congress, the courts and other federal and state agencies. She serves on the FCC's Consumer Advisory Committee. In 2014, Forbes named Lauren to its 30 under 30 list in the law and policy category. Before joining Free Press, Lauren was a student attorney at the Institute for Public Representation's First Amendment and Media Law Project. Media includes: Free Press, Los Angeles Times, Truth Out, Forbes