Susan Greene is a reporter, editor and coach for the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab). She was editor and executive director of The Colorado Independent and a longtime reporter and columnist at The Denver Post. Susan has been honored by the National Press Foundation, ACLU, Society of Professional Journalists and Colorado Press Association for her First Amendment work and coverage of criminal justice, mental health and civil rights. She was selected as a 2020-2021 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, and is the inaugural recipient of the Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grant for Mental Health Investigative Journalism. Read more of Susan’s work.

Priscilla Waggoner is currently a reporter at the Valley Courier in Alamosa. Prior to that, she was the editor of the Kiowa County Independent on the southeastern plains for five years. In addition to working over the years in a variety of positions at a handful of publications in Colorado, Waggoner worked as a professional screenwriter and was the recipient of the Nicholls Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. She currently lives in the San Luis Valley with her family — two dogs, Abbott and Bailey, and her horse, Cisco.