News Creator Corps is excited to announce the Spring 2026 class of the Trusted Creators fellowship. The fellowship is an intensive program of skill sharing and community building, focusing on tactical skills like fact-checking, sourcing, and interviewing to ensure the creators are disseminating accurate information.
The application field was extremely competitive. The creators selected for this program have demonstrated that they care deeply about serving their audience with factual, impactful information and are actively working to fight misinformation. These 20 creators come from 10 states and territories, providing information on everything from politics and immigration to cooking, parenting, sex work, and national parks. Their audiences range from communities of 1,400 to national news viewers of 1.4 million. A quarter of them are bilingual. Many of the communities they reach have been underserved by traditional media.
The Spring cohort begins on February 25.
Meet the class:
Anthony Milián
South Carolina
Anthony Milián is a public historian and multimedia storyteller based in South Carolina, known for creating high-impact digital content centered on Black and Puerto Rican history. Through his brand DeffNotAnt and his company AmodestoPhoto LLC, he produces culturally grounded videos, podcasts, and campaigns that blend rigorous research with accessible, viral-ready storytelling.
Arielle Fodor
California
Arielle (aka Frazz) is a teacher turned education advocate who translates complicated education policy and political issues into clear, accessible content. She’s known for making sense of what’s happening in public education and why it matters with a mix of analysis, humor, and plain-spoken honesty. Her work connects the dots between policy decisions and their real-world impact on families and communities.
Bambi Rising
California
Bambi Rising is a community documentarian and storyteller whose practice is rooted in honoring ancestral legacies, building collective memory, and reveling in the absurdities of life. Their work serves as a bridge connecting our present with our heritage and a reminder of the importance of joy as an act of resilience.
Carly Anderson
California
Carly Anderson is a former teacher and parenting-focused content creator who centers her work on helping families have important and often difficult conversations. Through thoughtful storytelling and practical guidance, she supports parents navigating the tween and teen years with clarity, confidence, and connection.
Carmen Alvarez
Florida
Carmen Alvarez, known as @tomesandtextiles, is a Cuban-American book lover and library activist whose passion for reading has cultivated an audience of over 200K followers across her social media platforms. Through thoughtful reviews and recommendations, she champions Latinx books from across the diaspora while pushing back against the lack of representation in traditional publishing. Her advocacy has been featured in publications including Glamour, Elle, and Bookriot, and she regularly contributes her writing to online outlets. You can join her Bien Leidos Latinx book club on bindery.
Caroline Stout
Texas
Caroline Stout is an attorney and content creator focused on the intersection of politics, news, and progressive advocacy. Her work centers on examining misinformation, unpacking misleading narratives, and modeling curiosity, accountability, and personal growth. She previously worked in right-wing media and now speaks openly about how exposure to new perspectives reshaped her views on the influence and consequences of partisan media.
Celeste
California
Celeste, known as CelestieDaBestie on TikTok and Instagram, is the founder and CEO of People Over Papers, which operates a crowd-sourced map that captures reports of potential immigration enforcement activity across the country. Celeste is currently focused on informing her audience in both English and Spanish in order to fight misinformation about immigration and the technology used by federal agencies.
Eileen Ivette
Texas
Eileen Ivette is an Afro-Latina award-winning travel influencer and digital storyteller. She produces cinematic, culturally immersive content that connects Black and Latine travelers to the African diaspora through history, identity, and adventure. Her award-winning series, Black Latin History, immerses viewers in Black history, living traditions, and Black-owned businesses across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Eliza Orlins
New York
Eliza Orlins has been a career public defender for 15 years in Manhattan and is a digital creator focused on the criminal legal system, civil rights, and media literacy. Through accessible, direct-to-camera content, she explains the law, challenges copaganda, and helps audiences understand how government power and misinformation shape public life. Her work also centers on digital privacy and people’s rights in interactions with law enforcement.
Juan Guerrero Maya
California
Juan the Mochilero is a cultural storyteller from Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, raised deeply immersed in his traditions and cultural practices. Viewing history through a decolonial lens, he explores narratives that have been hidden, erased, or reshaped, while staying grounded in his ancestral roots. Through sharing his learning journey, he aims to help reconnect those who were distanced from their mother identities and cultural ties.
Kamari Andrews
Georgia
Kamari Andrews is an innovative educator from Brunswick, Georgia. He uses social media to teach little known African-centered histories that fill gaps in education and connect people to their own history. He uses education and tourism to encourage others to not only invest into their communities, but to get involved in politics locally.
Kary Van Collins
Pennsylvania
Kary Van Collins (Santayana) (they/them) creates LGBTQ+ lifestyle, androgynous fashion, and social impact content in their home city of Philadelphia. Their goal is to create content that motivates and empowers non-conformers to show up authentically and to advocate for value-driven issues. Kary hopes that people who watch and engage with their content feel inspired to show up as who they are meant to be, wear what they want to wear, and exist freely in a world that wants to put people into boxes.
New Denizen
Colorado
New Denizen is a Denver-based writer and creator covering food and restaurants. She keeps her community up-to-date with fun, honest content that highlights unique local restaurants and culinary destinations, helping diners discover and celebrate the people and businesses that make Colorado’s food scene so dynamic.
Nicholas Jackson
Missouri
Nicholas Jackson, known as Nick the Immunologist, is an immunology science researcher, content creator, and strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM related fields. Nick uses his platform to provide evidence-based science information in an easily digestible manner. Through his content and representation, he hopes to influence more diverse individuals to pursue careers and higher education degrees in STEM.
Olivia Murphy
Florida
Olivia Murphy is a disabled writer, podcaster, and digital storyteller centering disability rights, healthcare advocacy, and media representation through storytelling that informs, connects, and empowers.
Stephany Valdez
Texas
Stephany Valdez (she/her/ella) is a multilingual water justice organizer based in Houston, focused on advancing equitable access to clean, safe, and affordable water in frontline communities. Her work centers flooding, water quality, infrastructure justice, disaster resilience, and the impacts of highway expansion, with a strong emphasis on community-led solutions to climate and environmental inequities. She also supports efforts to oppose border wall construction in Laredo, where she is from, and works to ensure Spanish-speaking communities are meaningfully included in decisions that shape their health, environment, and future.
Taylor Tieman
California
An award-winning lawyer, content creator, and mama, Taylor protects founders and creators by helping them build and safeguard their businesses. She is the founder of Legalmiga Law, P.C. and The Legalmiga Library®, and is known as Legalmiga online. Her work centers on business law, intellectual property, and contracts, alongside public commentary on trending legal and political issues. Through her platform, she provides real-time commentary from a lawyer’s point of view to make legal concepts easy to understand.
Tory Mather
Pennsylvania
Tory Mather is Pittsburgh-based outdoor creator who uses humor-infused storytelling and education to inspire people to connect with nature and take action to protect it. Through the outdoor adventures she shares on her blog, mytrailsaremany.com and Instagram @torytalkstrails, she advocates for responsible outdoor recreation, sustainable travel, conservation, and stewardship of public lands. Her mission is to empower individuals to enjoy the outdoors with the goal of getting them to become advocates for its preservation.
Valeria Alvarado
Texas
Valeria Alvarado is a Mexican-American food educator and content creator from Houston, Texas that focuses on traditional Hispanic recipes. She believes that sharing food content, recipes, and cultural methods are a way to honor marginalized communities and their history. Through her content, she has shown how food is inherently political and an avenue for advocacy.
Will De Man
Michigan
Will is a Michigan-based educator, writer, and public land advocate. His content on Instagram and Substack combines history and advocacy to help his audience understand and respond to the many issues our public lands and national parks are facing. Will has partnered with The Wilderness Society, Protect the Porkies, and other outdoors creators to defend national monuments, protect state parks, and keep public lands in public hands.