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Belinda is a journalist-turned-marketer who spent her early career writing for newspapers, magazines, and TV before discovering her passion for online content. She is a Certified Digital Marketing Professional through both the American Marketing Association and the Digital Marketing Institute, and she holds an M.A. in Journalism.

Diane Jones is a radio host, composer, and performer. After 16 years on the air in Syracuse, NY, she is excited to join WHRO and be able to call Norfolk her home.

Dean Mirshahi is a reporter for VPM News in Richmond, Va.

Yiqing is WHRO News' health reporter. Before joining WHRO, she was a science reporter at The Cancer Letter, a weekly publication in Washington, D.C., focused on oncology. Yiqing graduated from Northwestern University and Bryn Mawr College. She speaks Mandarin and French. Yiqing can be reached out at 443-494-6627 or yiqing.wang@whro.org.

Ashley White is WHRO’s Education reporter focusing on K-12 and higher education in Hampton Roads. She joined WHRO in 2026 and previously covered education, crime, courts and cops while reporting in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Tallahassee, Florida. She grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and is a University of Central Florida alumna. When not at work can be found reading with her cats or exploring somewhere new.

You can reach out to Ashley at ashley.white@whro.org or at 757-889-9307.

Mechelle is News Director at WHRO. She helped launch the newsroom as a reporter in 2020. She's worked in newspapers and nonprofit news in her career. Mechelle lives in Virginia Beach, where she grew up.

Mechelle can be reached by email at mechelle.hankerson@whro.org or at 757-889-9466.

Brian covers all things in the city of Norfolk. Originally from the area, he returned home after working in Philadelphia and Richmond.


He can be reached at brian.saunders@whro.org or at 757-889-9479.

Alexander Noth is a student reporter from Christopher Newport University.

Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1997 about his career, from touring with Elvis to singing at prisons. He died in 2003.

After giving birth to her second child, NPR's LA Johnson struggled with scary thoughts that didn't seem to go away. She illustrates her experience in a comic, along with tips on how to cope.