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Ava Kofman reports on technology for ProPublica.

She joined ProPublica in January 2019, after working as a contributing reporter at The Intercept, where she covered algorithms, artificial intelligence and surveillance technology. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The New Republic, among other publications.

To send Ava tips, email ava.kofman@propublica.org, or text 347-410-0113.

Miriam Childs is an experienced digital marketer who has served as Lexipol’s marketing coordinator since 2020. She has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Yolanda Johnson is EMS lead instructor, CPR instructor, at Advanced Medical Transport, in Peoria, Illinois. She is also coordinator of AMT’s Cardio Reviver program, which donates to nonprofits that meet the criteria of public access AEDs and trains lay people in CPR.

Serving in public safety since 1991, Tim Wojcik is a paramedic and emergency manager for the South Carolina Office of State Fire Marshal. Tim was recently asked to serve as a member of the state EMS Association’s Health and Wellness Committee. Prior to focusing his efforts on public safety chaplaincy and wellness issues, he also served as a lead faculty member in the Emergency Management and Fire Science degree programs at Columbia College (SC). Tim can be contacted at tim.wojcik@llr.sc.gov.

Kimberlyn Tihen, EMT-CP, RN, is captain, St. Charles County Ambulance District (SCCAD) Mobile Integrated Health Division.

Lisa Giruzzi is the co-host of the EMS Leadership Summit, and co-founder of the EMS Leadership Academy, an organization that provides leadership resources for EMS providers worldwide to address the difficulties they are facing on a daily basis and create magnetic, thriving, sustainable organizations. Lisa has been a business and life coach for more than 25 years and specializes in causing breakthrough results for clients by giving them access to a whole new level of power and performance. Learn more at www.EMSLeadershipAcademy.com and www.EMSLeadershipSummit.com.

Tom Walker has been a member of the Pascoag (R.I.) Fire Department for the past 12 years, currently serving as a lieutenant. He was recently hired as a sales representative with New England Fire Equipment & Apparatus Corporation, with a focus on ambulance sales.

Benjamin Baham, AAS, NRP, is the EMS officer at Eighth Ward Volunteer Fire Department and a firefighter at Mandeville Fire/EMS in Louisiana. He is a fire instructor, an associate instructor at the National EMS Academy, a certification evaluator for the Louisiana Fire & Emergency Training Academy, and has been a guest speaker at a regional trauma symposium.

I. David Daniels is a retired fire chief who now serves as president/CEO of ID2 Solutions, LLC. He is certified as a Safety Director, Workplace Violence Prevention Specialist, and Emergency Management Specialist. He served over 30 years in fire/rescue, emergency medical services, and emergency management organizations in four states. He has been a featured speaker at the annual EMS Leadership Summit hosted by the EMS Leadership Academy. In 2021, he became the first-ever living African American inducted into the National Fire Heritage Center’s Hall of Legacies, Legends, and Leaders.

Dave Statter owns STATter911 Communications, LLC, in Falls Church, Virginia. He consults with public safety-related agencies on communications and media issues, produces videos and runs the fire service website STATter911.com. Statter spent four decades in broadcasting, including 25-years as a reporter with WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.