Dan was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and moved to Kansas City with his family when he was eight years old. He majored in philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and holds law and journalism degrees from Boston University. He has been an avid public radio listener for as long as he can remember – which these days isn’t very long… Dan has been a two-time finalist in The Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and has won multiple regional awards for his legal and health care coverage. Dan doesn't have any hobbies as such, but devours one to three books a week, assiduously works The New York Times Crossword puzzle Thursdays through Sundays and, for physical exercise, tries to get in a couple of rounds of racquetball per week.
Jessica Calefati is an education reporter for POLITICO covering colleges, universities and workforce development. Previously, she worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she exposed staggering levels of teacher turnover at schools serving vulnerable children. <br/><br/>Before joining the Inquirer, Jessica worked first in New Jersey and later in California. At The Star-Ledger, her hometown paper, she covered Chris Christie and Cory Booker’s campaign to transform Newark’s struggling schools. <br/><br/>At The Mercury News in California, she covered Gov. Jerry Brown and investigated a chain of online charter schools that turned a profit while failing to educate students. And as an education reporter for CalMatters, she probed the crisis of districts’ exploding teacher pension debt.<br/><br/>Jessica graduated from George Washington University with a degree in journalism and political science. Her work has been recognized by the Geral
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Andrew Lehren. Andrew W. Lehren is a senior editor on the NBC News investigations team. He has reported on the pandemic and economic relief efforts, and led work on five International Consortium of Investigative Journalists collaborations, including the Implant Files, China Files, and the FinCEN Files. His work on people injured by foul balls led Major League Baseball to extend protections at all its stadiums.
He previously spent almost 13 years as a reporter at The New York Times, working on a range of national, international, and investigative stories.
He was one of the newspaper’s lead reporters analyzing the WikiLeaks trove of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, and Guantanamo detainee dossiers. Those stories were compiled into a bestselling book, Open Secrets.
He contributed to the Pulitzer Prize-winning series that examined substandard Chinese chemicals tainting U.S. pharmaceuticals.
He has also covered President Trump’s finances, the BP oil spill and other en