Christa Scharfenberg, Project Director of the California Local News Fellowship Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, was previously Senior Vice President at the American Journalism Project (AJP), a venture philanthropy that invests in the growth of local nonprofit newsrooms across the country. Prior to AJP, Christa spent more than 18 years at Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting, serving as CEO from 2017-2021. She is also on the advisory boards of the Poynter Institute, the Legal Clinic Fund and Correctiv (in Berlin).