
Our Team

Blake Stoner
Founder & Chief Reporter

Jaime Fernandez
Chief of Staff / Legal Lead

Shweta Jain
Research & Development

Shiming Huang
Full-Stack Software Engineer

Don Griffin
Director of Business Development

Kayla Arroyo
Community Outreach

Matthew Ramsay
Geo-Socioeconomic & Political Analyst

Javaughn Lindsay
Outreach Fellow

Randi Williams
UI/UX Fellow

Koffison Voumadi
Mobile Engineering Fellow
The concept of Vngle was born in Ferguson, Missouri
Vngle is a response to growing misinformation and underrepresentation that's plaguing so much of America.
Our origin is rooted in grassroots work and seeing the systemic problems local communities face. This work started in Ferguson, MO, where social injustice is real but goes incredibly underreported. Ferguson like so many other underrepresented cities is a news desert, a place that gets little to no original reporting. Today, over 64% of America, millions of people, do not get daily original news on their area. These areas are where misinformation grows the most.
We started Vngle to address these critical issues through empowering communities to bring various angles of verified local news to their area.