Berkley Center

Alessandro Cinque is a photojournalist based in Lima and a Pulitzer Center grantee. His work delves into the devastating impact of mining on Indigenous people and their lands. His attention to social and environmental issues affecting minorities has often driven his work, which includes documenting gold mining in Senegal, the smuggling of goods by the Kolbars on the Iraq-Iran border, and abandoned uranium mines in Navajo territories.

Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, leads the center’s work on religion and global development. She is also a professor of the practice of development, conflict, and religion in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, teaching diverse courses on the ethics of development work and mentoring students at many levels. She helped to create and now serves as the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, an NGO that works to enhance bridges between different sectors and institutions. In September 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Marshall has five decades of experience on a variety of development issues in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and the Middle East, particularly those facing the world’s poorest countries; one way she shares her expertise is through her blog Faith in Action. She was a World Bank officer from 1971 to 2006, and she led the World Bank’s faith and ethics initiative between 2000 and 2006. Marshall is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values and the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, both part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Vidal Merma Maccarcco is an independent journalist based in Espinar, Peru, and a Pulitzer Center grantee. His work focuses the impact of mining companies in his province, particularly on the human rights of the K'ana Nation, the Huancané Bajo community in the province of Espinar and Cusco Region. He has previously worked as a radio and TV reporter, as well as a local correspondent for the Peruvian public news service RPP noticias.