Fellows

Nate Berg is a freelance journalist covering cities, architecture, design, and urban planning. Nate’s work has been published in a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Dwell, Architect, 99% Invisible and many others. He is a former staff writer at the website now known as CityLab and was previously an assistant editor at Planetizen. He is based in Los Angeles.

Jonathan Masters helps lead a team of writers and editors that produces wide-ranging content for CFR.org, including backgrounders, interviews, visual stories, and events. He also writes on foreign policy and national security. He was the chief editor of “Campaign 2016: The Candidates and the World,” an interactive guide to the US presidential election that won an Online News Association award. In the summer of 2017, he reported in Japan on autonomous vehicles as an Abe journalism fellow. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, and other publications. Masters has a BA in political science from Emory University

Minako Sasako is a staff writer at the Yomiuri Shimbun, one of Japan’s major daily newspapers. She began her career at Yomiuri in 2002 and currently reports for the international news desk. Her largest project to date is her reportage on the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, an event she reported on extensively, interviewing nuclear plant workers, as well as survivors. Her work there led to the publication of a book in 2016. She holds an MBA from University of Southampton, UK.