WMN co-founder Ovetta Sampson is a nationally award-winning journalist with 18 years’ experience in writing and editing who has reported from Nigeria, Egypt, Haiti and more than 30 countries. She most recently wrote stories for The Christian Science Monitor, and has had stories published in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and several national and international publications. For the last eight years she's used her journa

Leah Kohlenberg has 12 years’ training experience in the former Soviet Union, starting as a Knight Fellow in Mongolia. She has 20 years’ experience writing, reporting and editing for daily U.S. newspapers, as well as Time magazine in Hong Kong, the Asian Wall Street Journal and Money Magazine. Ms. Kohlenberg developed Nose for News curriculum which WMN uses to train citizen journalists and indigenous communications staff.

WMN Technology Developer Nicholas Young started his first business at age 8, digitizing analog materials. His chemical make up is entrepreneurial and his excellent programming skills make him extremely valuable in today’s world. Steeped in Web and Print design, software development and website creation there is nothing young about Nicholas’ computer experience. He’s a consummate technologist with an elegant eye toward customer experience.