Financial Shock

Christopher Tyree

Christopher Tyree has more than 20 years of international reporting experience as a photojournalist, writer and filmmaker. His photojournalism has been recognized by the National Press Photographer’s Association, Pictures of the Year International and the Associated Press to name a few. His documentary films have garnered nationwide theatrical releases and won awards at many film festivals. He has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, People and Life Magazine as well as many international periodicals.

Scott Wallace

Scott Wallace is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist who has covered national and international affairs for the past three decades for some of the world's most influential media organizations. His assignments have taken him from the windswept mountains of Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor to the Alaskan Arctic and on to the depths of the Amazon rainforest. A regular contributor to National Geographic, Scott has covered armed conflict, the environment, and vanishing cultures for Smithsonian, Harper's, National Geographic Adventure, among many others. He is a former foreign correspondent for The Guardian, Newsweek, and CBS News, and he is the recipient of the Explorers Club's prestigious Lowell Thomas Award. His book, The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes, is a New York Times bestseller.

Alex Park

Alex was a fundamental part of our early research for this story and co-reported for Orb in Brazil. In addition to Orb, Alex has been published by Mother Jones, PBS/MediaShift, New America Media, allAfrica.com, The Believer, Time.com, Grist, and The European Centre for Development Program Management.

Heather Krause

Heather’s invaluable contribution included working with the Orb Media team to gather, prepare, and analyze data. Heather is a professionally trained mathematical statistician with years of working on complex research problems for non-profit and NGO organizations. She is the founder and principal consultant at Datassist and has worked on every continent except Antarctica. She has a strong love of finding data, analyzing it in creative ways, and using cutting edge visualization methods to visualize the results. Her emphasis is on combining strong statistical analysis with clear and meaningful communication.

Maria Monroe

Maria helps with both operational and editorial aspects of producing our stories. She is involved in everything from story research, to booking travel, to copy editing, to populating the text that you are reading right now. Maria has a B.A. in English and Gender Studies from the University of Notre Dame and an M.S. in Journalism from the University of Kansas.