A panel of Herald reporters and editors will discuss the solutions-based project looking at youth suicide in La Plata County that ran in The Durango Herald in late September and throughout October. Mary Shinn reported the youth suicide prevention series based on the model of the Solutions Journalism Network. She is the special topics and the health reporter for the Durango Herald. Mary started working for Ballantine Communications in 2013 and covered Mancos town government for The Journal. She joined The Durango Herald in 2014 and has covered Durango city government, health and business. Sarah Flower is an alumna of Fort Lewis College and has been working in broadcast journalism in the Four Corners since 2001. She has worked at KDUR, KSUT, Four Corners Broadcasting and KSJD in Cortez. Sarah is currently project editor for a solutions journalism grant with KSJD and four other radio stations across the Western Slope. She is also the office manager at KDUR Community Radio at FLC and hosts a weekly public affairs program 'Off the Rim.' Shane Benjamin is a graduate of Fort Lewis College with a degree in mass communication. He has been in journalism for 19 years, working as a reporter and editor. He joined the The Durango Herald in 1999 as a reporter and covered city government, county government, education and cops and courts. He contributed to the 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire coverage that won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism in the category of public service. Amy Maestas is executive editor of The Durango Herald. She has worked as a journalist for 30 years in various positions and publications in the West. She joined the Herald 22 years ago as a reporter. From 2016-17, she was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For more information, email durangodiaries@durangoherald.com