Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has spent the last few years reflecting on how academics, researchers and journalists can work together. We’ve learned that journalists and academics have many things in common: both generally care about making a positive social change, bringing accurate information to the public and pushing the boundaries of what’s known to humanity.

Yet they tend to work in parallel universes. When they have collaborated, they’ve managed to tell complex stories with enormous impact. We started this conversation last year at Stanford University with great success. This year we’re excited to bring Mind to Mind to the East Coast in partnership with American University’s School of Communication and The Investigative Reporting Workshop.

At this symposium, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, acclaimed researchers and academics from top universities will come together to discuss a wide variety of topics affecting America’s workforce.

Conversations will range from #MeToo at the workplace to worker injuries at Tesla and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. We’ll talk about gender discrimination in the form of planning holiday parties at work to abuses at drug rehabilitation programs across the country.

We’ll delve into what academics and journalists can learn from each other, the challenges in working together and how to make collaborations happen.

Come join us at American University on Oct. 12, 2018. Space is limited, so please register ASAP.

List of confirmed speakers include:

Megan Twohey, Journalist, The New York Times

Louise Fitzgerald, Emeritus Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Illinois

Ellen Gabler, Journalist, The New York Times

Fatima Goss Graves, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Women's Law Center

Patricia Shiu, former Director of Federal Contract Compliance

Bernice Yeung, Journalist and author of “In a day’s work”, ProPublica

Debbie Berkowitz, Worker Health and Safety Program Director, National Employment Law Center

Jordan Barab, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of OSHA and Blogger-in-Chief, Confined spaces

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Director, Center for Employment Equity and Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Lise Vesterlund, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh

Amy Eisman, Director of Journalism Division, American University School of Communication

Christa Scharfenberg, Chief Executive Officer, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting

Amy Julia Harris, Journalist, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting

Shoshana Walter, Journalist, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting

Will Evans, Journalist, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting

Juliet Eilperin, Journalist, The Washington Post

Emma Brown, Journalist, The Washington Post

Maryam Jameel, Journalist, Center for Public Integrity

Rebecca Moss, Journalist, Santa Fe New Mexican

Randy Capps, Director of Research, U.S. programs, Migration Policy Institute

Elizabeth Grieco, Senior editor and writer, Pew Research Center

Jennifer LaFleur, Data Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop and School of Communication, American University

Paul Overberg, Journalist, The Wall Street Journal

Michael Corey, Senior Data Editor, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting

Juliana Horowitz, Associate Director of Research, Pew Research Center

Margaret Janz, Librarian, University of Pennsylvania and Data Refuge project

Sinduja Rangarajan, Journalist, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting

Take a look at the day's full tentative agenda here.

To join the conversation on Twitter, please use these hashtags: #M2M2018 #MindToMind

We have limited fellowships for those who can't afford the ticket. For fellowships, email mfeldman@revealnews.org.