Dart Conversation at ASJA: Interviewing Survivors with Humanity & Grace

April 26, 2014

Dave Cullen is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Columbine” and is writing a book about two senior gay army officers. An award-winning journalist, Cullen has written for the New York Times, BuzzFeed, Times of London, Newsweek, Guardian, Washington Post, Slate, Salon, and Daily Beast.

Amy Dockser Marcus is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, In 2005 she won a Pulitzer Prize for stories exploring state-of-the-art cancer treatments and the affecting odysseys of those navigating treatment options. She is the author of two books: “The View From Nebo: How Archaeology Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East,” and “Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.”

Alia Malek is a civil rights lawyer and journalist who has lived and worked in the U.S., Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, and Italy. She moved to Damascus in April 2011 and was last there in May 2013. She is the author of A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold Through Arab American Lives and the editor of Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post 9/11 Injustice. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, Salon, The Christian Science Monitor, The Columbia Journalism Review, Granta, Guernica, Jadaliyya, and McSweeney’s. In August 2013, she joined Al Jazeera America as a Senior Staff Writer. She is the 2013 recipient of the Marie Colvin Front Page Award for Foreign Correspondence for her work on Syria.

Bruce Shapiro is the executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, based at the Columbia Journalism School. An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice and politics, Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation and U.S. correspondent for Late Night Live on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. He is the author of “Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America,” and teaches investigative journalism at Yale University.

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