Isabelle Brourman, Jeannette Berlin and Peter Hambrecht are visual journalists who have decades of combined experience covering some of the most consequential moments in recent American history.

Over and over, they have turned on the news after witnessing that news in real life, and wondered why the full story was going untold.

Together, they formed and funded an independent news team dedicated to sharing the truth of this big time with Americans. Each brings their own lens to Starring America’s coverage, which always stars the people, known and unknown, shaping our nation’s future.

With Bourman’s art as its anchor, Starring America is focused on documenting the textured history that mainstream media makes glossy, and rendering the photoshopped characters of this moment as the real, layered people they are.

Isabelle Brourman is an artist internationally recognized for her distinctive artwork capturing the era’s most culturally flammable trials. Her work on Trump’s fraud trials with New York Magazine’s Andrew Rice earned her a 2025 award from the New York Press Club. After Trump’s election, her work shifted to immigration court, and then to the streets. She has been featured in the New York Times, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and other publications.

Jeannette Berlin is a filmmaker and award-winning investigative reporter with a masters degree in magazine journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She worked in newspapers for a decade, including the Arizona Republic and Cape Cod Times. Her most recent investigative series, published nationally in USA TODAY, focused on racial profiling in Massachusetts. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists named the series the year’s best investigation in New England. 

Peter Hambrecht is a filmmaker whose visceral frontlines documentary has been published by New York Times, CNN, Netflix, Hulu, BBC and others. He studied film at Keene State College in New Hampshire. For years, his camera has been at the center of the American experiment, from Springfield, Ohio to the streets of Washington, D.C.. In spring 2025, he embedded in the hallways of a New York federal court, where he spent months documenting some of the earliest images of the Trump deportation machine.