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Rachel Schnalzer Stewart is a former audience engagement editor for the Los Angeles Times. In addition to overseeing daily news engagement for the Business and World Nation sections, she managed promotion for projects such as Global California, Repowering the West and the Great SoCal House Hunt. Schnalzer Stewart has also served as the lead writer for the Times’ travel newsletter, Escapes, and Business newsletter. Schnalzer Stewart graduated from Johns Hopkins University and worked at BuzzFeed and Snap before joining The Times in 2019.

Gabrielle Chenault is a former intern with the audience engagement team at the Los Angeles Times. She is a graduate of Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, where she majored in print journalism with an emphasis in political science. At Hampton, Chenault was a staff writer of the female-run online news organization Her Campus, the lifestyle, local and world section editor of the Hampton Script and a student athlete. She is also a graduate of USC Annenberg where she majored in specialized journalism with a focus in international and race/social justice reporting. She is most passionate about helping to give a voice to those who are often marginalized and ignored.