Donovan Farnham
Audience & Digital Strategist
Priya Fremerman
Project Manager
Rahim Jessani
Social Media Manager
Jon Sonnheim
Managing Editor
Heidi Przybyla
President & Founder
Meet the team
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President & Founder
Heidi Przybyla is an award-winning investigative and television correspondent who is championing new approaches to reporting and delivering news that put the American people first.
She is a veteran journalist whose reporting has changed campaigns, had an impact on national events and won some of journalism’s highest awards. Heidi has regularly broken exclusive reporting on how White House, congressional and presidential policy impacts everyday Americans and on the state of democracy at home. Her reporting has spanned leading newspaper, digital, radio and television outlets, including CNN, PBS, NPR, CBS, ABC, FOX and across NBC News platforms.
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Managing Editor
Jon Sonnheim is an award-winning journalist and news leader whose career has taken him from the foothills of Appalachia to the halls of Congress. He specializes in building and leading teams that translate complex national issues into hyperlocal, human-centered stories that resonate with communities. He’s passionate about exploring new ways to reach audiences, collaborate with creators, and help fill critical information gaps in news deserts.
Jon previously served as Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief for Cox Media Group, and before that, built and launched a new D.C. Bureau for NBC Owned TV Stations. His work on investigative projects has led to numerous national awards and changes in federal legislation.
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Social Media Manager
Rahim Jessani is a creator journalist and expert in connecting journalism with the creator economy. A graduate of Boston College, Rahim has worked across several newsrooms, start-ups, and nonprofits, helping guide audience engagement strategies through short-form video, live streaming, and grassroots-level marketing to reach new audiences in online “content deserts.” Rahim is also the founder of several creator-led projects and a voice helping rebuild trust in journalism through accessible, community-driven storytelling, both locally and nationally.
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Audience & Digital Strategist
Donovan Farnham is a digital and social content strategist with experience in various publications and news outlets, including the Mercury News, Vox Media, and CBS Interactive. Donovan advises and helps lead news teams as they build data reporting infrastructure, grow community and audience, and develop digital strategies.
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Project Manager
Priya Fremerman is a project manager and operations specialist helping mission-driven organizations build the systems, partnerships, and operational infrastructure needed to grow their impact. Through her work with the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Global Leadership Network and as Executive Director of GlobeMed, a global health equity nonprofit, she has built systems that help distributed networks align, learn, adapt, and scale to new places and with new partners. She holds an M.S. in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University, where her research focused on resilience in social sector organizations, and is energized by the trusted local relationships and grounded place-based strategy at the heart of Get Real's approach.
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