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Alejandra Cancino reports on housing and the court system. Before joining Injustice Watch in 2023, she was an editor training emerging journalists and an investigative reporter whose award-winning work focused on the intersection between government and business. She has worked at City Bureau, the Better Government Association (now the Illinois Answers Project), the Chicago Tribune, and the Palm Beach Post. Alejandra grew up in Latin America and Miami and enjoys traveling the world in search of good hikes.

Maya Dukmasova reports on judges, prisons, and the courts. Before joining Injustice Watch in 2021, Maya was a senior writer at the Chicago Reader, where she produced award-winning long-form features and investigative stories, as well as profiles, film reviews, and essays on a wide range of topics. Maya was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and spent much of her childhood in Appalachia. She moved to Chicago after completing a master’s degree in art history at the University of Cambridge and now lives on the Far North Side.

Forest Gregg is a partner at DataMade, a civic technology company in Chicago. He has worked with Injustice Watch on a number of projects related to improving access to and understanding about Cook County court data.

Alex Richards is an assistant professor of journalism at the Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. Previously, he was deputy editor of the investigative reporting team for NerdWallet and a data reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Las Vegas Sun.