Dante Chinni is representing the American Press Institute, a think tank for journalism, conducts research, training, convenes thought leaders and creates tools to help chart a path ahead for journalism in the 21st century.

Chinni is the director of the American Communities Project at American University, which studies the United States’ shifting community landscape, and the writer of the Politics Counts blog on WSJ.com. He is also co-author of the book “Our Patchwork Nation” and the creator of the Patchwork Nation Project, which won a 2009 Knight Batten Award for journalistic innovation.