Naomi Balk

Naomi Balk

  • Assistant Director of World Journalism Institute

Naomi is a WJI 2020 grad and WJI assistant director of WJI. She also is co-founder of WJI Network and graduated from Columbia International University. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Lee Pitts

Lee Pitts

  • Executive Director, World Journalism Institute

As Washington Bureau Chief for WORLD magazine for more than five years, Lee's assignments sent him from Capitol Hill to the White House to the Supreme Court. But his reporting also has taken him beyond the Capital Beltway. Leading up to the 2010 elections, Lee embarked on a 10-day, 4,225 mile cross-country trip through competitive congressional districts in 16 states. In 2004-2005, as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Lee embedded with a National Guard Regimental Combat unit in Iraq for nearly 7 months, going on humanitarian and combat missions. Before joining WORLD, Lee served as press secretary for U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander. Now in his fifteenth year in the media world, Lee earned a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and currently leads the journalism program at Dordt University.