is the Executive Director of We The People Media. Ethan is the founder of Residents' Journal and the Urban Youth International Journalism Program. Ethan was formerly an investigative reporter for the Chicago Daily Defender and is a current part-time faculty member in the Journalism Department of Columbia College-Chicago. He is the author of "Another Exodus," an essay published in "Black Zion: African American Encounters with Judaism" (Oxford University Press). Ethan is a 1989 graduate of the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature.

currently works as Deputy Executive Director for We The People Media and the Editor-in-Chief for Residents' Journal. Mary began her journalism career while living on welfare in a public housing rise building that has since been demolished. She landed her first nine-to-five job as Assistant Editor of Residents' Journal in early 1998 after developing her journalism skills. In the summer of 2000, Mary became the first public housing resident to serve as Editor-in-Chief of Residents' Journal. Today, she manages more than 30 low-income freelance writers, photographers, consultants and circulation assistants while managing part of the youth program. Mary is an national-award winning journalist and one of Residents' Journal's chief writers and photographers who also oversees production of each issue of the paper. She has made numerous public appearances in the media, at conferences and at universities to discuss the changing nature of Chicago's public housing communities.