Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

University of Washington, Seattle

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  Sue Lockett John

  Sue Lockett John, Ph.D., was a programming and research associate at Dart Center West. She is a former newspaper reporter and editor and a freelance writer, editor and project manager.

  Her research has explored such topics as news treatment of crime victims and their loved ones; the effects of head-to-head competition on local news; and press coverage of the Bush administration's strategic speech.

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  Gary Tippet

  Director

  Gary Tippet is a senior writer for The Age in Melbourne, Australia. He was the first Australian to be awarded an Ochberg Fellowship, in the year 2004.

  Gary began in journalism in 1972, at the Sun News-Pictorial and joined The Sunday Age in 1993, moving to The Age when the two papers merged in 1998. In the time since, he has have covered some of Australia's biggest stories including the East Timor crisis of late 1999-2000, the Thredbo ski resort landslide, the Moura coalmine collapse in Queensland, and a number of major crime stories including the disappearance and murder of Jaidyn Leskie, the Port Arthur massacre and the Bega schoolgirls murder trial. In 2000 he covered the military coup in Fiji.

  Much of Gary’s writing has focused on trauma and its victims.

  In 1997 he won a Walkley, for Slaying The Monster, an account of an abused child who, 30 years later, returned to kill his molester with an axe, and has won two Quill's and three Legal Reporting Awards.

  In recent years, Gary has written a number of articles on motor vehicle trauma, includinh Fatalities #74 and #75; April's Story and Sudden Impact, in which he spent three months following the victim of a serious injury road accident, from crash to recovery. The result was a 10,000 word, four broadsheet page special report, which won the 2002 Transport Quill Award.

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  Aaron Glantz

  2011

  Aaron Glantz is a staff reporter at the Bay Citizen, a former editor at New America Media and the author of two books on the Iraq war, The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans and How America Lost Iraq.

  He is also co-author with Iraq Veterans Against the War of Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations. He has been a fellow at Columbia University Teachers College and the Carter Center in Atlanta.

• Aaron Retica

  Aaron Retica is chief of research for The New York Times Magazine.

• Alex Lupis

  Alex Lupis attended the RUJ conference and was a panelist during the “Journalists in Danger” discussion. Lupis is a former researcher at the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and is currently working for the RUJ in Moscow on a fellowship funded by Alfa Bank.

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  Alexander McFarlane

  Senior Advisor

  Alexander McFarlane is professor of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He is a recognised international expert in the field of post-traumatic stress disorder and is a past president of both the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

  In 2003, Professor McFarlane was presented with the Robert Laufer Award for outstanding scientific achievemnt in the study of the effects of traumatic stress. He is the senior advisor in psychiatry to the Australian Defence Force and the Australian Centre for Post Traumatic Mental Health. He is also an advisor to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs on a scientific investigation of Gulf War syndrome. He has acted as an advisor to many groups in post-disaster situations, including the Kuwaiti Government and the United Nations. He has lectured and run workshops in Europe, the United States of America, Asia and South Africa.

• Alicia Zuckerman

  Aliciza Zuckerman is co-senior producer and co-host of WLRN's "Under the Sun." Alicia also produces WLRN’s weekly news program, The Florida Roundup, and produces stories for WLRN's Arts Desk and Jazz Roots.

  Before coming to Miami, she covered arts, culture, and breaking news for WNYC in New York, where she reported on Carnegie Hall, puppet opera, arts education in the South Bronx, authentic Hungarian strudel, two presidential elections, and nuclear power.  She was also the lead classical music and dance reporter at New York magazine for six years.  She has written frequently on the arts for the Miami Herald and contributes to Dance magazine.  Her online reporting has appeared in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and the Jewish culture magazine, Tablet.

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  Allan Little

  Allan Little is a correspondent for the BBC.

• Allen Detrich

  Allen Detrich is a photographer at the Pittsburg Post-Gazette.

• Ambar Espinoza

  Ambar Espinoza is a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio.

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  Amy Walters

  Amy Walters is a field producer for NPR’s national desk based in Los Angeles. She has spent her entire professional career at NPR, initially as an intern for the network’s Middle East bureau. Since then, she has worked on almost every NPR news magazine including a two-year stint with “All Things Considered.” There she was part of the show’s award-winning coverage of September 11, 2001.

  When NPR opened a California production facility, NPR’s national desk hired Walters as the first field producer for the western United States. Over the past five years, her assignments have expanded to include tours in Baghdad, New Orleans and many stops in between. Walters is often called on when news breaks. She covered the campus shooting at Virginia Tech and the deadly collapse at the Crandall Canyon coal mine in Utah. In addition, she’s produced award-winning long-form enterprise pieces on topics involving juvenile justice, drug wars and polygamy.

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  Andrew Innerarity

  Andrew Innerarity is a photographer for the Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX).

• Andrew Stone, M.D.

  Director, PTSD Clinical Team at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center

  Andrew Stone, M.D., is a staff psychiatrist and director of the PTSD Clinical Team at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, where he has worked with combat veterans for more than 25 years. He has written and spoken about various aspects of traumatic stress, most recently on new ethical challenges raised by treating combatants who may have to fight again. Another recent piece explored “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” as a trauma narrative. Other areas of interest have included the existential aspects of trauma treatment and the role of advocacy in trauma treatment. He has also performed psychiatric evaluations for asylum seekers under the auspices of Physicians for Human Rights and has led trainings for others to provide those services.

  Stone has been teaching interviewing to psychiatry residents for more than 20 years, with an emphasis on meeting the person and getting the story. He is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.  Other interests and pastimes include travel, archaeology, photography and music. Walking in the nearby Wissahickon Valley or in distant parks or ancient ruins all provide restorative experiences. An inveterate and omnivorous reader, he also enjoys writing.

• Angela Carey

  Angela Carey is the editor of the Ballarat Courier.

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  Angela Peterson

  Angela Peterson, metro picture editor, joined the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2003. As metro picture editor her duties include the planning and development of the three metro zones. Prior to joining the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel she spent 20 years at the Orlando Sentinel as a staff photographer for 18 years and two years as picture editor for the features and business section.

  Some of the stories she worked on while at the Orlando Sentinel included, “The Miracle of Phillip Chandler”, an Orlando youth who was kidnapped and left for dad. This picture story received a Picture of the Year Award and “A Whole New World”, a look at diversity in the Central Florida communities. Peterson attended Syracuse University where she received a Bachelor of Science in Communication.

• Anh Do

  Anh Do is a reporter for the Orange County Register.

• Anita Chandra, Ph.D.

  Manager, RAND Corporation Behavioral and Social Sciences Group

  Anita Chandra, Ph.D., is a behavioral scientist and manager of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Group at the RAND Corporation. Her background is in public health, child and adolescent health and community-based participatory research and evaluation. She has led efforts to evaluate the state of child health in Washington, D.C. to assess its school health program and examine the impact of deployment on children from military families. She also leads efforts to examine issues of community resilience and long-term disaster recovery. She has been involved in the national evaluation of the Safe Start program for children exposed to violence, projects with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that examine community capacity to build systems of public health preparedness and an intervention study on teen depression in primary care settings.
   

  Chandra has engaged community members, particularly young people, in program evaluation and in the translation and dissemination of research findings into health communication products. She develops projects in the area of adolescent mental health to explore youth perceptions of mental health, examine stigma as a barrier to mental health care-seeking and understand mental health issues for youths of color living in urban communities. She has been invested in adolescent reproductive health, conducting monitoring and evaluation activities at reproductive health clinics and designing a toolkit for health care providers on cultural and developmental barriers to appropriate reproductive health services for teens. Chandra received her doctorate in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

• Ann DeFrange

  Ann DeFrange is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Ann Jones

  Writer and Photographer

  Ann Jones is an authority on violence against women. She is a journalist, photographer, activist, and author of eight books of nonfiction, including the seminal work, Women Who Kill.

  Jones is also the author of Next Time She’ll Be Dead, an analysis of the legal, social, and cultural foundations of wife-beating in the United States; Kabul in Winter, an account of her years as a humanitarian aid worker in Afghanistan; and War Is Not Over When It’s Over, an account of a year’s work with women and cameras in war-torn countries from West Africa to Iraq, assessing the impact of continuing violence on women.

  Jones has spent the last eight years doing humanitarian work with women in conflict and post-conflict zones in West Africa, the Middle East, Central Europe and Asia and also served as an emergency gender adviser to the United Nations. She is a regular contributor to The Nation and Tom Dispatch.  She holds a Ph.D. in modern literature and history from the University of Wisconsin and is currently the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, where she is working on a book about what happens to America when troops come home.

• Ann LoLordo

  Ann LoLordo is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun.

• Anne Eyre

  Dr. Anne Eyre is a sociologist specializing in trauma and disaster management.

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  Anne Hawke

  Anne Hawke has traveled throughout the United States and across the globe to produce and report stories for NPR's National Desk.  She produced two prize-winning stories by Daniel Zwerdling, each of which prompted the federal government to make swift policy changes: a December 2006 investigation on Iraq veterans suffering mental anguish, which won the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and a November 2005 series on abuse of immigration detainees, which won the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award.

  Hawke traveled to New Orleans the day before Hurricane Katrina to cover the storm and its aftermath, to Sri Lanka to cover the 2004 tsunami, and into New York City to cover the massive electrical power failure in 2003.  She has also produced several longer-form works, including a 10-part series with Nina Totenberg on the private papers of Supreme Court Justice Blackmun and a series of profiles with NPR's Noah Adams about low-wage workers around the nation.

  Hawke is a native of Washington, DC, and a graduate of Yale University and New York University School of Law.

• Anupama Narayanswamy

  Anupama Narayanswamy received a master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and was an intern with the Center for Public Integrity in Washington D.C.

• Aram Boghosian

  Aram Boghosian is a photographer at The Boston Globe.

• Arlene Notoro Morgan

  Associate Dean of Prizes and Programs, Columbia Journalism School

  Arlene Notoro Morgan is associate dean of prizes and programs at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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  Arnessa M. Garrett

  A professional journalist since 1990, Arnessa M. Garrett, 35, began her career as an intern at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

  She attended Tulane University and was named a Truman Scholar in 1990. She spent her junior year of college at the Institut d’etudes politiques in Paris.

   

  After graduating from Tulane with a bachelor’s degree in history, she worked at the Picayune as a copy editor before moving to Washington, D.C., to take a position at the Small Business Administration.

  In 1993, she moved to Boston where she was hired on the copy desk of The Boston Globe. She worked at the Globe for seven years, editing national, foreign and local stories.

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  Arnold R. Isaacs

  A longtime reporter and editor for The Baltimore Sun, Isaacs is the author of the books Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia and Vietnam Shadows. Since the mid-1990s, Isaacs has conducted training programs for journalists in various places, including several former Soviet republics, the Balkans, and a number of countries in Southeast Asia. He is a member of the Dart Center advisory council.

• Arthur C. Evans Jr, Ph.D.

  Director, Philadelphia's Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services

  Arthur C. Evans Jr, Ph.D., a clinical and community psychologist, is director of Philadelphia's Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services. He is leading a major initiative to transform how behavioral health care and mental retardation services are delivered in the city. Since Evans' appointment in November 2004, Philadelphia has begun a transformation of its entire system, focusing on recovery for adults, resiliency for children and self-determination for all who use mental retardation services.  He holds a faculty appointment at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and has held faculty appointments at the Yale University School of Medicine and Quinnipiac University.

  Earlier, Evans was deputy commissioner for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services (DMHAS).  In this capacity, he led several major strategic initiatives for the Connecticut behavioral healthcare system. He was instrumental in implementing a recovery-oriented policy framework, addressing health care disparities and increasing the use of evidence-based practices. He currently serves in several national leadership roles and is highly committed to serving people who are underserved and ensuring that all people have access to effective, quality services.

• Audrey Lott

  Audrey Lott Watkins was a member of the Jonesboro Sun news team that was named a finalist in the 1999 Pulitzer Prize competition for coverage of the March 1998 shooting at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, Ark. She lives in Jonesboro with her husband and two children and is currently pursuing a master's degree in communications at Arkansas State University.

• Audrey Watkins

  Audrey Lott Watkins was a member of The Jonesboro Sun news team that was named a finalist in the 1999 Pulitzer Prize competition for coverage of the March 1998 shooting at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, AK.

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  Barbara A. Walsh

  Barbara A. Walsh is a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter working on special projects for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. Walsh was one of two principal reporters at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, who worked on a yearlong series about Willie Horton Jr., a convicted killer and furlough escapee whose crimes drew attention to the flawed Massachusetts prison system. The series won a 1988 Pulitzer Prize.

  Besides reporting in Massachusetts, Walsh worked at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel for seven years, covering courts and social services. Since she came to Maine in 1996, she has won several national, state and regional awards for her stories on alcohol abuse, teen-agers, rural poverty, the lack of mental health care for Maine children, domestic violence and most recently teen suicide.

  Her stories have also prompted hundreds of letters from readers and launched state and federal investigations. Walsh’s articles have also sparked fundraisers for the poor and helped improve mental health care for children.

  Walsh is a New Hampshire native and graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in photography and journalism.

• Becky Saunders

  Becky Saunders is a researcher for the National Family and Parenting Institute. She first became involved with the Tavistock Institute whilst undertaking an MA in psychoanalytic observational studies. More recently, she has been part of Tavistock's policy seminars steering group.

• Ben Montgomery

  Ben Montgomery is an enterprise reporter for the St. Petersburg Times.

  He grew up in Oklahoma and studied journalism at Arkansas Tech University, where he played safety for the football team, the Wonder Boys. He has worked for the Courier in Russellville, Ark., the Standard-Times in San Angelo, Texas, the Times Herald-Record in New York's Hudson River Valley and the Tampa Tribune.

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  Beth Fertig

  Beth Fertig has been covering city politics, education, and social services for WNYC News since 1995. Her reporting honors include the 2001 Columbia DuPont Silver Baton Journalism Award; the 2000 New York Press Club's Golden Gavel Award for her reporting on New York family courts; and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for a 1998 series uncovering the lack of shelter for homeless teenagers.

• Bill Greene

  Bill Greene has been a staff photographer with The Boston Globe for 25 years.

  His many awards include being named national photographer of the year two times from the National Press Photographers Association/Pictures of the Year competition, Photographer of the Year honors 11 times from the Boston Press Photographers Association, the Robert F. Kennedy International Photojournalism Award, and first place in the World Press Photo competition. He is also a three time Emmy award winner for his recent multimedia work for the Globe.

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  Bob Thayer

  Bob Thayer is an award-winning feature photographer who has been on the Providence Journal staff since 1978. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the Columbia School of Journalism.

• Bobby Ross

  Bobby Ross is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Brendan Hoffman

  Brendan Hoffman is a freelance photographer based in Washington, DC, where he covers news and politics for a variety of clients including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and Getty Images.

  In 2011, his work covering the earthquake in Haiti was awarded second place in the feature story category by the White House News Photographers Association. Brendan is also a founding member of the photojournalist collective Prime, which seeks new outlets for documentary photography.

• Brian Feulner

  Brian Feulner is a freelance photographer and multimedia journalist in Portland, Ore. Brian has worked as a photo editor and staff photographer for several daily newspapers after getting a degree in photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York.

• Brian Slodysko

  Brian Slodysko, a University of Washington journalism student, currently reports on Washington State politics for the Associated Press.

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  Brittain Quibodeaux Orgeron

  Brittain Quibodeaux Orgeron, 25, graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2002, where she received a degree in mass communications.

  After working as a technical writer and consultant, she took a position at The Daily Advertiser as a part-time reporter, then moved to a full-time copy desk post in 2003, where she now designs and edits.

• Brittany Birkett

  Brittany Birkett, a senior at University of Washington, works with Dart Center West as an undergraduate intern.

• Caitlin Kelly

  Caitlin Kelly, a freelance journalist and former reporter for The Globe and Mail and Montreal Gazette, is the author of Blown Away: American Women and Guns.

• Carla Hinton

  Carla Hinton is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

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  Carol Smith

  Carol Smith is the senior profile writer for the the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and specializes in medicine and science reporting. She's worked at the newspaper for 13 years, with a five-year break from 1992-97. During that hiatus, she worked as a free-lance business columnist for the Los Angeles Times and also continued a business column for the P-I.

   

  Born in Pasadena, Calif., Smith obtained a B.S. degree in chemistry from Stanford University and an M.S. degree in plant pathology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1982 she won an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Fellowship for scientists interested in the media, which is how she came to pursue a career in science and business journalism.

  After serving her fellowship at the Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, N.C., she spent three years as a business and technology reporter for the Journal-American in Bellevue, Washington. She has also freelanced for a variety of magazines, including Forbes and Redbook.

  Smith's work has been recognized nationally and regionally by the American Legion Auxiliary, the Society of Professional Journalists, Best of the West contest, the Hearst Corporation, and the Washington Press Association. She was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Journalism and won the Upton Sinclair Award in 2001as well as the C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Reporting. Smith has also received awards from the Seattle Writer's Association and the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association for her essays and poetry.

   

• Cathy Frye

  Cathy Frye is a general assignment reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

• Cecilia Ballí

  2010

  Cecilia Ballí is a contributor to Texas Monthly and Harper’s magazines. A native of Brownsville, Texas, she has researched and written about the U.S.-Mexico border for many years. Her personal essays have appeared in various anthologies, including “Puro Border” (Cinco Puntos Press), “Colonize This!” (Seal Press), “Border-line Personalities” (Rayo/Harpercollins), “Rio Grande” (UT Press), and “Hecho en Tejas” (UNM Press). 

  She was a finalist in 2004 for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists and the John Bartlow Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism. That same year, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists named her Emerging Journalist of the Year. In 2008, she was a distinguished finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award given by the Columbia University School of Journalism. Ballí began her journalism career as a reporter for The Brownsville Herald and the San Antonio Express-News. She is a graduate of Stanford and Rice universities and lives in Austin, where she is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Texas. She writes about violence along the U.S.-Mexican border and is working on a book about the construction of a border fence.

• Charles B. Strozier

  Charles B. Strozier, a history professor at John Jay College and a practicing psychoanalyst, is the author of Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses.

   

  Charles B. Strozier, a history professor at John Jay College and a practicing psychoanalyst, is the author of Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses.

   

• Charles Wilson

  Charles Wilson is a researcher for The New York Times Magazine.

• Chris Bull

  1999

  Chris Bull is a book author and contributor to USA Today, The Washington Post Magazine and GQ. He was national correspondent for The Advocate where he covered congress, the White House, Supreme Court and federal agencies. He has written on hate crimes, political activism, and education issues.

  Chris Bull is co-author of Perfect Enemies: The Battle between the Religious Right and the Gay Rights Movement and The Accidental Activist. He is co-editor of At Ground Zero: 25 Stories from Young Reporters Who Were There. Bull is a recipient of an Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation Fellowship for 2000, the recipient of NLGJA Honors for a series of articles and a finalist for the Livingston Award.

• Chris Heide

  Chris Heide is a Seattle writer and videographer with particular interests in journalism, social media, pop culture, and law. He graduated from the University of Washington in 2008 with a double major in political science and journalism.

• Chris Wilkins

  Chris Wilkins is the Assistant Director of Photography at The Dallas Morning News.

  Previously, he worked for 10 years as a photographer and bureau manager for Agence France Presse, based in Washington D.C., and Chicago, followed by five years as the foreign/national picture editor at the Chicago Tribune. He has covered numerous top news and sports events over the past 20 years in his role as photographer and editor. Chris served as a photo editor on three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects, including The Dallas Morning News’ coverage of Hurricane Katrina, which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, and the Iraq war, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

• Christine Evans

  Christine Evans is a reporter for the Palm Beach Post in Palm Beach, FL.

• Christy Cox

  Christy Cox has extensive experience working with publishers, editors, agents, producers, filmmakers and educators, and has written and edited content for both print and online media.

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  Claudia Laws

  Claudia B. Laws joined the staff of The Daily Advertiser in 2004. A 2002 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Laws interned at The Bay City Times, The Cedar Rapids Gazette and The Montgomery Advertiser before finding a home with the Lafayette paper.

  While at The Advertiser, Laws, 26, has produced a variety of photo essays, including stories on roadside memorials to accident victims and a camp for children with heart defects. She was the lead photographer on a special section examining the arsenic levels of water in Cow Island, LA.

  Her work has been published in local and national publications including USA Today.

  Her photographs are also featured in Katrina: Devastation. Survival. Restoration, a retrospective look at the deadliest storm to hit the United States in decades.

• Clayton R. Norman

  Clayton R. Norman is a graduate student at University of Arizona's school of journalism.

   

• Craig Dezern

  Craig Dezern is a reporter for The Orlando Sentinel.

• Crocker Stephenson

  Crocker Stephenson is a reporter for the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, WI.

• Dan Luzadder

• Dan Williams

  Dan Williams is an assistant professor of journalism and English at Lyndon State College in Lyndonville, VT. Before he started teaching, Williams was editorial director for CNN International in Atlanta.

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  Daniel Vargas

  Daniel Vargas is a reporter for the Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX).

• Daniel Zwerdling

  Daniel Zwerdling is a correspondent in NPR's Investigations Unit. His acclaimed investigative and documentary reports appear on all of NPR's major news shows.

  From 2002 to 2004, he was NPR's television correspondent on PBS' “NOW with Bill Moyers.” Prior to his television work, Zwerdling was senior host of NPR's “Weekend All Things Considered,” a post he held from 1993 until 1999. For more than a decade, Zwerdling covered environmental, health, science, and third world development issues as an investigative reporter for NPR News. He was based in Nairobi, Kenya for several of those years as he examined nations struggling to develop across Africa and South Asia. Before joining NPR in 1980, Zwerdling worked as a staff writer at The New Republic and as a freelance reporter. His work appeared in national publications such as The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Review of Books.

  Zwerdling has won numerous awards, including the Peabody, Edward R. Murrow, the Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the Robert F. Kennedy awards for investigative reporting. He's also won the Overseas Press Club Foundation award for live coverage of breaking international news, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award, the National Press Club Award for consumer reporting, the Ohio State awards for international reporting, the James Beard award for reporting on the food industry, and the Champion-Tuck Award for economic reporting.

• Dart Award Photographers

  For more than a decade, the Dart Center has honored teams of journalists whose reporting of violence and disaster goes beyond the ordinary with the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. Dart Media curator Donna DeCesare with Jose Castillo selected a few exemplary images by a few exemplary photographers from this extraordinary group.

  Allan Detrich, Pittsburg Post-Gazette (Pittsburg, PA), 1998 Dart Award for "Children of the Underground"

  Rodolfo Gonzalez, Austin American-Statesman (Austin, TX), 2003 Dart Award Honorable Mention for "Chasing Hope"

  Paul Hu, Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA), 1997 Dart Award for "Path of a Bullet"

  Ellen Jaskol, Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), 2005 Dart Award Honorable Mention for "The Healing Fields"

  Matt Miller, Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE), 2006 Dart Award Honorable Mention for "Lethal Impulse"

  Rose Palmisano, Orange County Register (Orange County, CA), 2005 Dart Award Honorable Mention for "Women of Juarez"

  Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), 2005 Dart Award for "Homicide in Detroit: Echoes of Violence"

  Bob Thayer, Providence Journal (Providence, RI), 2004 Dart Award for "Rape in a Small Town"

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  David A. Rodgers

  Rodgers has been a photographer at The Portland Newspapers since 1988. He previously worked for the Rocky Mountain News and the Boston Globe. Rodgers won third place in the National Press Photographers' Association's international pictures of the year contest this year for his work on the newspapers' Island Odyssey series, which ran in the summer of 1996. Rodgers also has won numerous regional and state photography awards.

  In 1999, the Maine Press Association honored Rodgers with eight awards, including four first-place awards, in the annual Better Newspaper Contest.

  Rodgers tied for second place in the NPPA's 1996 New England Photographer of the Year competition.

• David Donald

  David Donald is data editor at the Center for Public Integrity, where he leads the computer-assisted reporting program. His current interest is in financial, economic, and housing analysis and new tools for data analysis. 

  Prior to joining the Center in 2008, he served as training director at Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting for five years. He conducted more than 150 training events for thousands of journalists in the United States and internationally with a focus on investigative skills and data analysis to uncover fraud and other governmental abuse. Donald also spent 11 years at the Savannah Morning News in Georgia where he was research and projects editor. Among his many stories, he investigated the resegregation of public schools, race relations, and issues surrounding aging population. His work was part of a series of stories winning two James K. Batten Awards and two Hammet Awards for ethical and courageous journalism. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Kent State University and earned a media management fellowship at the Poynter Institute in 1991.

• David Ferguson

  David Ferguson is a researcher for The New York Times Magazine.

• David Hafetz

  David Hafetz is a reporter for the Austin American-Stateman (Austin, TX).

• David Riggs, Ph.D.

  Executive Director, Center for Development Psychology

  David Riggs, Ph.D., executive director of the Center for Deployment Psychology, is a clinical psychologist and research associate professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Kansas, earned a doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990.

  Riggs has held clinical research positions at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety and the National Center for PTSD at the Boston VA Medical Center. He previously held academic appointments at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Tufts University, Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania.

  Much of Riggs’ work has focused on trauma, violence and anxiety with a particular interest in the impact of PTSD and other anxiety disorders on the families of those directly affected. This included training professionals in ways to address the needs of survivors of international terror, natural disasters, military trauma, and sexual and physical assault.  Riggs has published over 60 articles and book chapters and presented over 200 papers and workshops on topics including post-traumatic disorder, domestic violence, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and behavioral therapy.

• David Tarrant

  David Tarrant is an enterprise reporter at The Dallas Morning News.

  Tarrant started at The News in 1984 as a suburban reporter. In 1986, he wrote a series on the hungry and homeless in Dallas that won the Heywood Broun award. From 1988 to 1992, he worked at Stars & Stripes in Europe and covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Persian Gulf War. He returned to The News in 1993 to write profiles, narratives and enterprise stories. In 2003, he wrote a four-part series chronicling the journey of four Dallas-area Marine recruits through boot camp, which won a Texas Associated Press Managing Editors award. He won another Texas APME in 2008 for a three-part series on the journey of the wife of an Air Force pilot who’d been missing since the Vietnam War.

• David Zeman

  David Zeman is the Assistant Managing Editor for Investigations at the Detroit Free Press and has been an editor and reporter at the Free Press since 1991.

  He edited and managed reports exposing corruption by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, and six other national prizes including an IRE award, a George Polk Award, the Associated Press Managing Editors Public Service Award and the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting. Zeman also edited stories that have won the Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for Excellence in Reporting on Drug and Alcohol Problems, a National Headliner Award and numerous state awards.   As a reporter, Zeman was named 2005 Journalist of the Year by the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists; twice won the University of Michigan’s Morgan O’Leary Award for government investigative reporting and the Michigan Bar’s Wade H. McCree, Jr. Award for the Advancement of Justice. He was a finalist for the national Vivian Castleberry Award from the Association for Women Journalists and the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.  Zeman previously was a reporter at The Miami Herald and The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C. He was a practicing attorney in Miami from 1984-86. He has a law degree from the University of Miami, a Master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

• David Zizzo

  David Zizzo is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Deanne Fitzmaurice

  Deanne Fitzmaurice was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography in 2005. She has been a staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle for 16 years. Her work has been published in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, ESPN Magazine, NY Times Magazine and People Magazine. She has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, National Press Photographers Association, Best of Photojournalism, Pictures of the Year International, California Press Photographers Association, Atlanta Photojournalism Competition, Mark Twain Award in 2004 and was named the 2002 Photographer of the Year by Bay Area Press Photographers Association. She has been a contract photographer for Day in the Life book projects and is a graduate of the Academy of Art College in San Francisco with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography.

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  Debra McKinney

  Debra McKinney, a graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism, has been writing features for the Anchorage Daily News since 1984. She's won numerous state and regional awards, including the C.B. Blethen award for feature writing, and was a member of the team winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for ADN's "People in Peril" series on alcoholism, suicide and despair among Alaska Natives.

• Donna Ferrato

  Documentary Photographer

  Donna Ferrato’s documentary work has appeared in nearly 500 exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide and is included in various permanent collections such as the International Center for Photography in New York City, the Corcoran in Washington D.C. and the Henry Buhl's Hands Collection. She first won acclaim for her landmark work on family violence.

  Through exhibitions of her work and lectures across the globe, Ferrato has brought widespread attention to violence against women and girls. A proclamation from the City of New York announced October 30, 2008 "Donna Ferrato Appreciation Day" for her "continued service as an example of advocacy and activism and as a citizen that the city is proud to call one of its own." Ferrato has received numerous awards, including the W. Eugene Smith Grant, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Humanistic Photography, the Kodak Crystal Eagle for Courage in Journalism, International Women in Media Courage in Journalism Award, the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the School of Journalism at University of Missouri-Columbia and Artist of the Year at the Tribeca Film Festival. Ferrato sits on the Executive Board of Directors for the W. Eugene Smith Grant, and is the president and founder of Domestic Abuse Awareness, Inc.

• Doug Kapustin

  Doug Kapustin is a photographer for The Baltimore Sun.

• Dr. Edward Rynearson

  Dr. Edward Rynearson, a psychiatrist, founded the Separation and Loss Services program at Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center in 1989. He is also author of the book, Retelling Violent Death.

• Edmund D. Fountain

  Edmund D. Fountain is a photojournalist for the St. Petersburg Times. He joined the paper as an intern in the fall of 2004.

  He is based in Tampa Bay, but his work has taken him all over Florida, the United States and parts of Central America. His work has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association, the Society for News Design, Florida Society of Newspaper Editors and the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. Fountain was born in Houston, Texas.

• Ellen Jaskol

  Ellen Jaskol is a photographer for the Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO).

• Emily Bell

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  Emily Bell is Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School.

   Bell was director of digital content for Britain's Guardian News and Media from 2006 to 2010. Previous to that post, Bell was editor-in-chief of Guardian Unlimited from 2001 to 2006. Under Bell, the Guardian received numerous awards, including the Webby Award for a newspaper website in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009, and British Press Awards for Website of the Year in 2006, 2008 and 2009. Bell first joined the Observer newspaper, which became part of Guardian News and Media, in 1990, as a business reporter specializing in media business, marketing and technology. Bell is a leading media commentator in the U.K., writing about broadcasting and media policy issues. She is a 1987 graduate of Christ Church, Oxford University, where she earned a master's degree in jurisprudence.

   

• Emily F. Rothman, Sc.D.

  Professor of Community Health

  Emily F. Rothman is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health and a visiting scientist at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. She earned her doctorate from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004, where her dissertation research focused on correlates of intimate partner violence perpetration, and where she was awarded the Martha May Eliot fellowship in Maternal and Child Health.

  Rothman worked for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health from 1997 to 2004 in the Bureau of Family and Community Health, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention. She has authored more than 30 chapters and other publications. Her current research interests include violence perpetration and adolescent health.  She is currently the recipient of a K01 from NIAAA to study underage alcohol use and dating abuse perpetration. She is also the empowerment evaluator on three violence prevention projects; a CDC-funded project to develop a statewide prevention plan for sexual assault in Massachusetts and domestic violence in Rhode Island (EMPOWER and DELTA); and a project to reduce homelessness in Worcester County funded by the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts. She is a research advisor to the Massachusetts Governor's Council to Address Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. She has provided violence-related consulting to the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Her research has been featured by NPR, USA Today, Newsweek.com, and The Boston Globe among others.

• Emma Mulholland

  Emma Mulholland is a student journalist from the University of Technology, Sydney.

• Emma-Jane Kirby

  Emma-Jane Kirby is a BBC correspondent in Geneva.

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  Eric Seals

  “If you learn to shoot with your heart, you’ll move peoples souls.” That phrase of inspiration, said to him in 1993 by one of his mentors at the Detroit Free Press is something photojournalist, Eric Seals thinks about on a daily basis when making pictures. Born in Detroit into a news junkie family in 1969, Seals knew in 10th grade that he wanted to be a photojournalist. Seals grew up reading the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press and became more interested in looking at the pictures in the Detroit Free Press because the photographers seemed to make something out of nothing assignments and took more chances.

  Seals graduated from the University of Missouri-School of Journalism after doing an internship at the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel in 1992 and the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1993. In that same year he did a one-year internship at the Detroit Free Press before heading for an internship and job opportunity at The State Newspaper in Columbia, SC. In 1995 Seals won the South Carolina Photographer of the Year and in 1999 joined the staff of the Detroit Free Press.

  Seals covered the Presidential campaigns of both Bill Clinton and George W Bush; the Northridge, California earthquake in 1993; wildfires in Florida in 1997; several hurricanes in North and South Carolina; the historical entrance of the first woman into The Citadel in 1997; the ongoing violence in Israel/Palestine in 2000 and 2002 and the recent the war on Iraq.

  Seals recently won the 2004 Michigan Press Photographers Association Barry Edmonds Understanding Award and the 2005 Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence for a 6-part series in the Detroit Free Press called “Homicide in Detroit: Echoes of Violence.” He has been a member of the faculty at Truth with a Camera Workshop in Portsmouth, VA. Taught at the 2003 Visual Edge workshop at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, FL and at the West Virginia University School of Journalism. Seals loves to mentor others who are interested in this great profession.

  He is married to Rhonda Seals has an adorable 5-year-old son named Ayrton and 9-month-old girl named Anna.

• Erin Grace

  Erin Grace is a staff writer for the Omaha World-Herald.

• Esta Soler

  Founder, Futures Without Violence

  Esta Soler is one of the world’s foremost experts on violence against women and children. She is the founder of Futures Without Violence, formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund, one of the world’s leading violence prevention agencies.

  With offices in San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C., and partners around the world, Futures Without Violence develops innovative strategies to prevent domestic, dating and sexual violence, stalking and child abuse. Futures Without Violence programs have been replicated in all 50 states and around the world, with campaigns funded by some of the nation’s leading philanthropies and corporations.

  Under Soler’s direction, Futures Without Violence, then Family Violence Prevention Fund, was a driving force behind passage of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 —  the nation’s first comprehensive federal response to the violence that plagues families and communities. Congress reauthorized and expanded the law in 2000 and 2005. She is spearheading efforts to pass the International Violence Against Women Act.

  Soler’s many awards include a 2010 Woman of the Year honor from a California legislator, a Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellowship, a Koret Israel Prize, and a University of California, Public Health Heroes Award. She is co-author of Ending Domestic Violence: Changing Public Perceptions/Halting the Epidemic.

• Eugene Garcia

  Eugene Garcia is a photographer for the Orange County Register.

• Eyal Press

  Eyal Press is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and the author of "Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America" (Picador).

• Fran Durner

  Senior photographer of Anchorage Daily News, on staff since 1979.

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  Frank Ochberg

  Frank Ochberg, M.D. is a founding board member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and recipient of their highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award. He edited the first text on treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and served on the committee that defined PTSD. Ochberg founded and secured the funding for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, served as its first chairman and now is chairman emeritus of the Center. He helps journalists understand traumatic stress and he helps traumatic stress experts understand journalists.

  He was associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health and director of the Michigan Mental Health Department. At Michigan State University, he is clinical professor of psychiatry, formerly adjunct professor of criminal justice, and adjunct professor of journalism.

  Ochberg developed, with colleagues, the National Center for Critical Incident Analysis, Global Youth Connect (a young persons' human-rights organization), Gift From Within (a charity for persons with PTSD), and the Committee for Community Awareness and Protection (responding to serial-killer threats). For the latter activity, he is the first physician to receive the Law Enforcement Medal of the Sons of the American Revolution. As a Red Cross volunteer, Ochberg has helped families at sites of earthquakes, floods, fires and aircraft disasters. He represents the Dart Foundation and directs their support of victimization programs around the world.

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  Frank Smyth

  Frank Smyth is a free-lance journalist and a contributor to Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff. He also is the Washington representative of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

• Fred Ritchin

  Fred Ritchin is former picture editor of The New York Times Magazine and other publications and professor of photography and imaging at New York University. He is also the author of the recently published book, After Photography.

• G.M. Bush

  G.M. Bush is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

• Gary Porter

  Gary Porter is a photographer for the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, WI.

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  Gary Tippet

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  Gary Tippet is a senior writer for The Age in Melbourne, Australia. He was the first Australian to be awarded an Ochberg Fellowship, in the year 2004.

  Gary began in journalism in 1972, at the Sun News-Pictorial and joined The Sunday Age in 1993, moving to The Age when the two papers merged in 1998. In the time since, he has have covered some of Australia's biggest stories including the East Timor crisis of late 1999-2000, the Thredbo ski resort landslide, the Moura coalmine collapse in Queensland, and a number of major crime stories including the disappearance and murder of Jaidyn Leskie, the Port Arthur massacre and the Bega schoolgirls murder trial. In 2000 he covered the military coup in Fiji.

  Much of Gary’s writing has focused on trauma and its victims.

  In 1997 he won a Walkley, for Slaying The Monster, an account of an abused child who, 30 years later, returned to kill his molester with an axe, and has won two Quill's and three Legal Reporting Awards.

  In recent years, Gary has written a number of articles on motor vehicle trauma, includinh Fatalities #74 and #75; April's Story and Sudden Impact, in which he spent three months following the victim of a serious injury road accident, from crash to recovery. The result was a 10,000 word, four broadsheet page special report, which won the 2002 Transport Quill Award.

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  Gavin Hewitt

  Gavin Hewitt, one of the BBC’s most distinguished and experienced reporters, covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

• Geoff Buteau

  Research Assistant

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  Geoff Buteau is a graduate student at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a research assistant for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

• Ginger Wall

  Ginger Wall is a Delaware native who has worked at the News Journal for 14 years. She grew up in dark rooms - her father had a small photo studio, Roy Wall Photography, in Dover, Delaware. Wall has worked as a photographer at newspapers in California and Delaware.

• Gordon Witkin

  Gordon Witkin is a managing is managing editor at the Center for Public Integrity.

  Gordon Witkin joined the Center in September 2008 following a long career at U.S. News & World Report and a shorter stint at Congressional Quarterly. At U.S. News, Witkin served as a regional correspondent in Detroit and as bureau chief in Denver, before coming to Washington in 1987. He covered criminal justice for 11 years, before joining the management ranks as chief of correspondents in 1998. Starting in January 2003, he served four and a half years as the news magazine’s national affairs editor. More recently, Witkin spent a year as social policy editor at Congressional Quarterly, supervising coverage of health care, legal affairs, education, immigration, housing, and labor. He began his career at The Indianapolis Star, and has been a freelance contributor to Planning magazine and Tennis magazine. Witkin’s work has been honored by the American Bar Association and the National Press Club.

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  Gus Chan

  Gus Chan has worked in Cleveland for the past 15 years, and his greatest enjoyment comes from documenting the comings and goings of city life. He was named photographer of the year by the Cleveland Press Club in 2005 and has twice been named runner-up by the Ohio News Photographer Association. He came to The Plain Dealer after working with The Detroit News.

• Gypsy Hogan

  Gypsy Hogan is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Hassan Ali

  Hassan S. Ali, 23, is the founder of Tame The Bear, a comedic blogazine and video website aimed at satirizing the current financial crisis. As an alum of the University of Chicago, where he was news editor of the Chicago Maroon student newspaper, he had close ties to the journalism community at NIU.

  Prior to Tame The Bear, he served as the co-creator, director, and co-producer of Current TV's comedic "Joe Gets..." and "What's Wrong With..." series from 2005-2008.

• Helen Benedict

  Professor, Columbia Journalism School

  Helen Benedict, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, is the author of "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq." 

  Benedict's articles on female soldiers won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2008 and an Exception Merit in Media Award (EMMA) from the National Women's Political Caucus in 2010. She is the author of five novels and five books of nonfiction.

• Helen Guthrie Smith

  Helen Guthrie Smith is a reporter for the the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

• Ignatius Haryanto

  Ignatius Haryanto is a former Tempo journalist and is now director of the Institute for Press and Development Studies.

• Ilena Silverman

  Ilena Silverman is story editor for the New York Times Magazine.

• Jack Norman

  Jack Norman is a reporter for the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, WI.

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  Jane Hoback

  Jane Hoback is a writer and assistant business editor at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. She also is the adviser to The Metropolitan student newspaper at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She has a particular interest in covering issues that affect women and minorities.

• Janet Wiscombe

  Janet Wiscombe is a reporter at the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

• Janice C. Humphreys

  Associate Professor, UCSF

  Janice C Humphreys, RN, CS, NP, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of California at San Francisco. Her research addresses the strengths and experiences of battered women and their children using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

  Humphreys’ research includes examinations of sleep patterns, psychological distress, trauma history, spiritual beliefs of sheltered battered women and resilience in both abused women and their children. She received her BA and BS from Purdue University, her MS in Pediatric Nursing from the University of California San Francisco and her PhD in Nursing from Wayne State University.

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  Jason Brown

  Jason Brown, 28, began his career as an intern at The Daily Advertiser in 2004 and was promoted to a full-time night cops position shortly afterward.

  Since then, Brown has worked as a general assignment reporter focusing on public safety and environmental issues.

  He is a 2005 graduate of the University of Louisiana, where he received a journalism degree. While in college, Jason was the recipient of several Society of Professional Journalists collegiate journalism awards.

  Last fall, Brown was part of a team of reporters deployed to various areas throughout Louisiana affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

  A Louisiana native, Brown, 28, is father to a 7-year-old daughter, Paxton.

• Jason Karas

  Jason Karas is a page designer for the Detroit Free Press.

• Jason N. Parkinson

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  Jason N. Parkinson is a freelance video and print journalist. He specialises in covering protest movements nationally and internationally. His coverage of the Egyptian revolution exposed the use of live rounds and police snipers on peaceful pro-democracy protestors in Cairo. He blogs at www.jasonnparkinson.wordpress.com. Jason N. Parkinson's images are available through Reportdigital.co.uk.

• Jeb Sharp

  Jeb Sharp covers U.S. foreign policy and a wide range of other international stories as a correspondent for PRI's "The World." Sharp was a reporter at public radio station WBUR, Boston, before joining the staff of "The World" in 1998. 

  Her 5-part series "How Wars End" was honored this year with the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.  Her series “Rwanda: Trying to Move On” earned the 2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Other awards include the OPC's 2003 Lowell Thomas Award for her "History of Iraq" radio series.  Sharp was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2005-2006.  She studied history at Cornell University and has a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. She began her public radio career covering local politics and environmental issues in Sitka, Alaska. 

• Jeff Seidel

  Jeff Seidel joined the Detroit Free Press in 1998 as a general assignment features reporter. He has covered everything from the war in Iraq to Hurricane Katrina.

  He was part of a team that won the 2005 Dart Award for a series about the Detroit Homicide Unit, which was called, “Homicide in Detroit: Echoes of Violence.” His story, “Aftershocks of a Crime Spree,” received honorable mention in the Dart Award Competition in 2004. Seidel has won several state and national awards, including the National Headliner Award for feature writing and the Delta Sigma Chi award for feature writing.

• Jeff Widener

  Jeff Widener has been a photographer at The Honolulu Advertiser since 1997. He is best known for his now famous image of a lone man confronting a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Beijing riots for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990. 

  Before joining The Honolulu Advertiser, Widener worked as a newspaper photographer in California and later in Nevada and Indiana. At age 25, he accepted a position in Brussels, Belgium as a staff photographer with United Press International. Widener has received numerous awards and honors from The Overseas Press Club, Pictures Of the Year International, NPPA Best Of Photojournalism, National Headliner Award, New York Press Club, Chia Award (Sardinia) and the Scoop Award (Angiers, France) along with a number of other local and international citations.

• Jeffrey Dvorkin

  Jeffrey Dvorkin is news ombudsman for National Public Radio.

• Jenna Russell

  Jenna Russell has been a reporter for The Boston Globe since 2000. She has covered higher education and has been a roving regional reporter in New England.
   

  Russell was part of a team of Globe reporters who wrote the bestselling biography “Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy,” published in 2009, and the accompanying seven-part newspaper series on Kennedy's life.

• Jennifer Godwin

  Jennifer Godwin is online news editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

• Jennifer Goren

  Jennifer Goren is senior editor of PRI’s "The World."   She works with the program's global staff of correspondents and reporters, helping them to craft their stories for broadcast. She was a staff producer and writer at public radio station WBUR, Boston, before joining the staff of "The World" in 2005.

  She edited the “Young China“ series, honored with the Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club of America in 2008.  Her work on Jeb Sharp’s series “Rwanda: Trying to Move On” earned the 2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

• Jennifer Pitts

  Jennifer Pitts is a photographer for the Shawnee News-Star in Oklahoma. Here, she respond to a letter from her co-worker Kristen Armstrong about a traffic accident fatality the two covered.

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  Jenny Wishart

  Jenny Wishart, BA (Journalism) QUT Brisbane, is a freelance journalist and corporate communications writer in Brisbane, Australia. Jenny is published in newspapers and magazines on family, government policy, human rights, business and sport topics. Jenny is also a consultant/writer/ producer for Video Media Productions, Brisbane.

• Jeremy Kohler

  Jeremy Kohler is a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO).

• Jeremy Olson

  Jeremy Olson is a staff writer for the Omaha World-Herald.

• Jess Hurd

  Jess Hurd is a London-based photojournalist and campaigning photographer, with 15 years experience supplying images and photo-essays to international newspapers, magazines, trade union journals, NGOs and movements of social change. Her photos are online at www.jesshurd.com and available through her agency Reportdigital.co.uk .

• Jesse Hardman

  Jesse Hardman was working in Chile with the international media development organization Internews when the earthquake struck. He currently lives in New York.

  Jesse Hardman was working in Chile with the international media development organization Internews when the earthquake struck. He has worked in media development throughout South America, as well as in Sri Lanka. He currently lives in New York.

• Jesse Tarbert

  Jesse Tarbert is a former web editor for the Dart Center.

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  Jill Kaufman

  Jill Kaufman is the news director at WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts where she oversees newscasts, features and series reporting. She also reports on issues around western New England. Before coming to WFCR, Kaufman began the global resources desk at PRI’s “The World” at WGBH in Boston. As the executive editor, she commissioned American stories with international angles for the show; for stations, she provided international content to broaden local talk shows, reporter packages and other news production.  Prior to her role at the global resources desk, Kaufman was a reporter at WGBH’s culture desk from 2001 to 2003. She created nationally distributed feature reports for NPR and PRI programs, covering the arts, education and New England history.

  During the time leading up to the 2000 Presidential Primary, Kaufman hosted “The Exchange,” a statewide call-in talk show from New Hampshire Public Radio. During the South Carolina Primary, she hosted NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered. Kaufman has also been a newscaster for NPR’s Only a Game and NPR’s Living on Earth.  She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emerson College and has done graduate work there in broadcast journalism.

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  Jillian Bogater

  Reporter, Cheboygan Daily Tribune

• Jim Killackey

  Jim Killackey is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Jim Killam

  Jim Killam is a freelance journalist, a journalism educator at Northern Illinois University and, since 1995, the adviser for the Northern Star, the NIU student newspaper.

• Jim MacMillan

  Independent journalist, educator and consultant

  Jim Macmillan is an independent multimedia journalist, university educator and new media consultant based in Philadelphia. He is the journalist-in residence at Swarthmore College where he advises students who report and produce War News Radio. He also teaches graduate multimedia reporting courses at the Carter Journalism Institute at NYU, and leads journalism innovation seminars at Temple University.

  From 2009-2010, he was an assistant professor on the convergence journalism faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. For 18 years, he was the senior photographer, photo-columnist and first solo video journalist with the Philadelphia Daily News. On leave from the Daily News in 2004-2005, he was a photographer and photo editor for the Associated Press in Iraq, where he covered over 200 combat missions, and at times managed the AP’s Iraq photo report and staff development in Baghdad. He was honored with the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents, and was included in the Associated Press photo team awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography and numerous additional awards. In 2006-2007, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, and an Ochberg Fellow with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma in later 2007.  He was named one of the Five Biggest Photographers on the Internet by Photo District News, and Philadelphia Magazine’s 2009 Best of Philly “Nuevo Journalist,” for his experiments in social media.

• Jimi Matthews

  A veteran South African journalist, Jimi Matthews is currently Head of TV News and Current Affairs at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, The biggest news organization in Africa.

• Joanna Connors

  Joanna Connors specializes in narrative features for The Plain Dealer of Cleveland.  She came to the paper in 1983 to be the theater critic, and has been the paper’s Arts and Entertainment Editor, the film critic and a columnist.

  Connors got her start in journalism on the copy desk of the Minneapolis Star, and within a year, she was a feature writer for the paper, and soon was promoted to film critic. Connors has written for Glamour, Seventeen, Redbook, and React magazines, and contributed an essay to the anthology  “Superman at 50!”  She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, where she also worked at the Minnesota Daily.  She lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and has two children, Daniel and Zoe. 

• Joannah Hill

  Joannah Hill is a layout editor for The Baltimore Sun.

• Joanne Rathe

  Joanne Rathe is a staff photographer at The Boston Globe.

• Jodie Munro O’Brien

  Jodie Munro O'Brien graduated from Central Queensland University and worked for a Rural Press weekly newspaper as a general reporter for a year before travelling to the United States in late 1998.

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  Joe Hight

  Joe Hight, director of information and development for The Oklahoman/NewsOK.com, was president of the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma’s Executive Committee. In 1995, he led the team of reporters and editors who covered victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. The Oklahoman’s coverage won several national awards, including The Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence.

  
  

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  Joe McDermott

  Joe McDermott is a reporter for The Morning Call (Allentown, PA). 

• John Harris

  John Harris teaches in the Department of Journalism at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.

• John Perry

  John Perry is a reporter for The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• John Pope

  John Pope, a staff writer for The Times-Picayune, was a member of the newspaper’s team that won two Pulitzer Prizes, a George Polk Award, a National Headliner Award and the Medill Award for Courage in Journalism for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

• John Puterbaugh

  John Puterbaugh was the editor in chief of the Northern Star, the Northern Illinois University student newspaper, for the 2007-2008 school year.

• John Taylor

  John Taylor is a reporter for ABC TV's 7.30 program on ABC1.

• John Trotter

  2007

  John Trotter is a freelance photojournalist and 2007 Ochberg Fellow. His work has been exhibited in the US and in Europe and has appeared in Life, U.S. News and World Report, Nieman Reports, American Photography and numerous other publications. A selection of his recent work can be seen on his personal website.

  In 1997 he was a photographer and photo editor for the Sacramento Bee when he was severely beaten by gang members in a Sacramento neighborhood. Trotter documented his own recovery from traumatic brain injury in Life Magazine and in his forthcoming book "The Burden of Memory." He is the recipient of numerous awards within the US and abroad.

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  John Wallace

  Senior Advisor

  John Wallace is director of the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre and a past president of the Journalism Education Association. He has managed and delivered professional development programs for journalists in the Asia Pacific region over the past 20 years.

  His work includes post-conflict work in East Timor, governance-related workshops in the southwest Pacific, and professional dialogue initiatives in China and Indonesia. He has degrees from the University of Melbourne and started in journalism with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Before joining the APJC, he was associate professor in journalism at the University of Queensland.

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  Johnathan Charles

  Charles is the BBC's Frankfurt-based correspondent, covering Germany and the wider Europe. This article and the accompanying photos are used here by permission of the BBC.

• Jon Steele

  Jon Steele is a veteran war cinematographer.

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  Jose Jaime "Nonoy" Espina

  Jose Jaime "Nonoy" Espina is the executive editor of Dateline Philippines, an independent start-up news site, and vice-chairman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. He has been a journalist for more than 22 years, most of these spent in the field.

  Among the subjects he has covered in the Philippines are the communist insurgency and related issues of human rights, internal displacement and social justice. Most recently, he covered the effects of the mass displacement caused by hostilities between the Philippine military and secessionist rebels in central Mindanao.

• Joseph Pyle

  President, Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation

  Joseph Pyle is president of the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation., a Quaker-based philanthropic organization in Philadelphia. He has more than 20 years’ experience in behavioral health, serving eight years as a chief executive officer at various institutions, including MeadowWood Behavioral Health System, Northwestern Institute of Psychiatry, Malvern Institute and Friends Hospital.
   

  Pyle joined Friends Hospital in 1999, and has been part of its executive team since that time. In 2004, he was named interim chief executive officer by the Board of Managers, and set into place significant changes that improved patient care, contained costs, and brought the hospital into full licensure and accreditation with all regulatory agencies.

  Prior to his administrative positions, Pyle held various clinical positions, including clinical director of adolescent services at MeadowWood Hospital and psycho-educational specialist at Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. He held special education teaching positions in the Pennsauken, New Jersey and Montgomery County Intermediate Unit school systems.

  Pyle sits on several non-profit boards; the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Family Planning Council, where he has recently been appointed treasurer. He also serves on WHYY’s Health and Science Advisory Board and the advisory board for the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at the Drexel School Public Health. He has most recently been appointed to the Board of Friends Behavioral Health System. He has served on the boards of the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems, the Delaware Valley Health Care Council, and served as co-chair of the Pennsylvania Health Funders Collaboration.

• Joseph Rodriguez

  Rodriguez is a self-employed photojournalist. Exhibitions of his work have been featured throughout the United States as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands and France. He also has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. For the book East Side Stories: Gang Life in East LA, Rodriguez spent three years photographing life in Los Angeles neighborhoods.

• Joseph Shapiro

  Joseph Shapiro is a NPR News Investigations correspondent. He has worked at NPR since 2001, covering health, aging, disability and children and family issues on the Science Desk before moving to Investigations.

  Before coming to NPR, Shapiro spent 19 years at U.S. News & World Report, writing about healthcare and medicine, aging and long-term care, disability and chronic illness, children and families, poverty, civil rights, and other social policy issues. He also served as the magazine's Rome bureau chief, White House correspondent and congressional reporter.

• Judith Matloff

  Judith Matloff was a foreign correspondent for 20 years, lastly as the bureau chief of The Christian Science Monitor in Moscow and Africa. She teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and and is the author of Fragments of a Forgotten War (1997) and Home Girl (2008).

  She is the recipient of various awards, including a MacArthur Foundation grant, a Fulbright fellowship and the Godsell, The Monitor’s highest accolade for correspondence. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Newsweek and The Economist. She is a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. 

• Judy Kuhlman

  Judy Kuhlman is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

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  Judy Tierney

  Judy Tierney worked as a freelance journalist on ABC's “This Day tonight”, “To Market to Market” and current affairs radio. Judy also produced an arts programme for 7ZR (now 936 ABC Hobart). In the '70's Judy travelled overseas and lived in the U.S.A., England and Kuwait with her family. On her return to Australia in 1979 Judy took a full time position with ABC TV’s “Nationwide”.

  In 1990 Tierney became presenter of the “7.30 Report” and the morning current affairs slot on 7ZR. She has also produced numerous documentaries including one on the Port Arthur massacre for ‘Australian Story’ and another on the training of the Special Operations Group in Tasmania. Judy has won numerous state and national awards for her journalistic work and is a regular speaker at community and public events.

• Kael Alford

  Kael Alford, is a documentary photographer, writer and educator whose work has been published in international magazines. Her work is featured in the book Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq. During her Nieman fellowship at Harvard University in 2009-2010, Alford made her first short film, "After the Storm." An essay about her current project appears in the Spring 2010 issue of The Nieman Reports. Alford is represented by Panos Pictures in London.

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  Karen Brown

  Karen Brown covers health care and general assignment stories for WFCR public radio (Amherst, MA) - with a focus on mental health, children's issues, and community-based initiatives. Her features have aired nationally on National Public Radio, American RadioWorks, Marketplace Radio, Justice Talking, and other outlets.

  She also produces national radio documentaries on health and mental health issues, interweaving personal stories with policy issues. "A Burden to be Well: Sisters and Brothers of the Mentally Ill," looked at the lingering effects of growing in a family with mental illness. "A Mind of Their Own: Children with Bipolar Disorder," followed three families trying to navigate adolescence while dealing with a severe, and controversial, mental illness. And her documentary, "Trauma and Recovery: A Cambodian Refugee Experience," revealed the long term effects of trauma on Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge, and the cultural barriers to getting them help. Her documentaries have won national awards from RTNDA (Edward R. Murrow Award), American Women in Radio and Television (Gracie Allen Award), New York Festivals, Mental Health America, Association of Health Care Journalists, PRNDI, and the inaugural Daniel Scorr Journalism Prize.

• Karen Klinka

  Karen Klinka is a reporter for The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

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  Kate Bramson

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  Kate Bramson, a 1993 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, has been on the Providence Journal reporting staff since August, 2002. Prior to joining the Journal, she was the education writer for the Duluth News Tribune in Minnesota. From October, 1995 to Feburary, 1997, she was news editor for Budapest Week and The Budapest Sun in Hungary.

• Kathy Kieliszewski

  Kathy Kieliszewski is a four-time National Emmy Award winning multimedia producer at the Detroit Free Press.

  The most recent Emmy was awarded for a 5-part series documenting The Boys of Christ Child House, a foster home on Detroit's west side. Her work at the Free Press has been recognized at the NPPA Best of Photojournalism competition, the 2009 Webby Awards, as a finalist in the Pictures of the Year International's documentary project of the year, as well as through numerous photography and picture editing awards. She is a graduate of Michigan State University.

• Kayana Szymczak

  Kayana Szymczak is a freelance photographer based in Boston, MA.

• Kayla Williams

  Kayla Williams is a former sergeant and Arabic linguist in a Military Intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).  She is the author of “Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army,” a memoir about her experiences negotiating the changing demands on today's military.

  Kayla Williams is a former sergeant and Arabic linguist in a Military Intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). During her deployment to Iraq, Williams was at the forefront of troops' interaction with Iraqis, while also navigating the challenges of being part of the 15 percent of the Army that is female. She is the author of “Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army,” a memoir about her experiences negotiating the changing demands on today's military. Williams graduated cum laude with a BA in English Literature from Bowling Green State University and earned her Masters in International Affairs with a focus on the Middle East from American University. She sits on the board of directors of Grace After Fire, a nonprofit dedicated to helping women veterans. She currently lives near Washington, D.C. with her husband, a combat wounded veteran.

• Kelley Benham

  Kelley Benham is enterprise editor at the St. Petersburg Times.

  A product of the Poynter Institute's high school journalism program, she earned a bachelor's in journalism at the University of Florida and a master's at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She joined the Times in 2003 and worked as a beat reporter and feature writer before becoming an editor in 2006. She won a number of national awards including the Ernie Pyle and National Headliner. In 2008 she edited Winter's Tale by John Barry, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

• Kelly Furnas

  Kelly Furnas became editorial adviser of Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech in 2005 after working for newspapers in Las Vegas and Tallahassee, Fla.

• Kelly Hochenauer

  Kelly Hochenauer is a Features Editor at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Kenna Griffin

  Kenna Griffin is a doctoral student in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She is a former student in University of Central Oklahoma’s groundbreaking Victims in the Media course.

• Kenny Malone

  Kenny Malone 

• Kern Konwiser

  Kern Konwiser is a writer, director and producer of award-winning theatrical films, documentaries, cable and network movies and series, new media, live events and dance.

  Among his credits are the HBO film “Miss Evers’ Boys” (winner of 5 Emmy Awards, 3 NAACP Image Awards, among others); the documentary films “On Hallowed Ground” and “Crossover” and the feature film “Shanghai Kiss.” He received a Bachelors of Arts from Cornell University and a Masters of Fine Arts from USC’s School of Cinema-Television Graduate Screenwriting Program.

• Kerry Drake

  Kerry Drake, opinion editor for The Casper Star-Tribune, covered the Matthew Shepard case 10 years ago.

• Kevin Cullen

  Kevin Cullen is a metro columnist at The Boston Globe. He has been a reporter at The Globe since 1985, working as a law enforcement reporter, legal affairs correspondent, reporter-at-large and foreign correspondent.

  Cullen has covered the conflict in Northern Ireland for more than 20 years, and had several stints on the Spotlight Team, the Globe’s investigative unit. He was part of the investigative team that broke open the story of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, for which the Globe was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. With other members of the investigative team, Cullen is co-author of Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church. He was a contributor to a book on contemporary Anglo-Irish relations, Britain and Ireland: Lives Entwined II, and his work appeared in the Best Newspaper Writing: 2006-2007 anthology, as well as the 2007-2008 edition.

• Kevin Dayton

  Kevin Dayton came to The Honolulu Advertiser in 1997 as the capitol bureau reporter. Previously he worked at the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, the Associated Press, Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star. He holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii and an undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona.
   

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  Kevin Kawamoto

  Kevin Kawamoto, MSW, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Hawaii School of Communications and teaches courses in journalism and multimedia.

  He was also a former assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Communications. Prior to teaching, he worked at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University in New York City. Kawamoto was also a degree fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu and a visiting student at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan.

  In the summer of 1999 he worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer through an Excellence in Journalism fellowship sponsored by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

  Kawamoto's research focuses on computer-mediated communication, the social impact of technology on human communities, and cross-cultural and international communications.

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  Kimina Lyall

  Director and Company Secretary

  Kimina Lyall is currently the Group Executive for Corporate Development at Australian Unity, a company with business operations in healthcare, financial services, aged care and retirement living. Before joining Australian Unity, Kimina spent almost 15 years as a journalist, including a period as Southeast Asia correspondent for The Australian.

  Her experiences during that posting led to a Walkley award nomination, along with the publication of her first book, Out of the Blue - Facing the Tsunami. Along with her work with the Dart Centre, Kimina is a board member of Great Connections, an organisation which aims to connect retired volunteers with high-level management skills with the not-for-profit sector.
   
  Prior to her study and work as a journalist Kimina spent time in the community sector including working in youth housing and on policy issues concerning young women and care and protection issues. Kimina has also been involved in volunteering at several community radio stations in Melbourne.

• Kole Kleeman

  Kole Kleeman is a professor in the mass communications department at the University of Central Oklahoma. His research focus in the Victims and the Media Unit at U.C.O. concerns anti-violence education for print and broadcast journalists, understanding trauma and victimization, and creating greater awareness and sensitivity to under-represented groups in the media. 

  He published “Victims and the Media:  A Semiotic Analysis of Hate Crime Reporting and the Media” in The American Journal of Semiotics (2003).  He presented a working paper on Trauma and the Holocaust along with the research of two of his Victims and the Media students at Florida State University in 2006.  Kole published “A Media Literacy Approach to Violence:  Anti-Violence Education Strategies in the Classroom” in The Texas Speech Communication Journal (April 2008). Dr. Kleeman has directed student research and publication in the Victims and the Media Unit since 1998 at U.C.O.He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.   

• Krista Kjellman Schmidt

  Krista Kjellman Schmidt is web producer and deputy editor of news applications for ProPublica.

  She was an associate producer in the investigative unit of ABC News for almost three years. The Blotter, the investigative unit’s web page on which she played a key role, has, during this period, been honored with the Online News Association Award for investigative journalism, a George Foster Peabody Award and an IRE Award.

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  Kristen Armstrong

  Kristen Armstrong is a reporter for the Shawnee News-Star in Oklahoma.

• Kristen Lombardi

  Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity

  Kristen Lombardi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Center for Public Integrity since 2007.  Previously she was a reporter at the Village Voice and at the Boston Phoenx, where she provided ground-breaking coverage of the Boston clergy-abuse scandal.

  Her investigative reports have explored social issues ranging from sexual abuse to mental health to criminal justice matters. Her work for the Center has been honored by the Investigative Reporters and Editors, the National Press Foundation, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the John B. Oakes Environmental Prize, and the Society of Environmental Journalists. ournalist who has worked for the Center for Public Integrity since 2007. She has been a journalist for more than 15 years and is a 2011 Nieman Fellow. Her investigation into campus rape cases for the Center won the 2011 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, the 2010 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, among other recognitions. She was awarded a fellowship from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma for her coverage of child sexual abuse, and is active in the Dart Society.

• Kristin Harty

  Kristin Harty joined the Delaware News Journal as a general assignment reporter in September 2005. Her most recent narrative project, a three-part series about seven men who drifted for days in the Atlantic on a four-man life raft, appeared in The News Journal earlier this year. Harty graduated from the University of Illinois and received a Masters of Arts from the University of Mississippi.  She has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Marion, Indiana.
   

• Kristin Jones

  Kristin Jones was a staff writer for the Center for Public Integrity. She is now U.S. Correspondent at South China Morning Post and reporter at the Rocky Mountain I-News Network.
   

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  Lara Solt

  Lara Solt joined The Dallas Morning News as a staff photographer in 2003.  Before coming to Dallas, Lara freelanced in the New York City area.  Previously she worked as a staff photographer for Copley Newspapers / Sun Publications in the Chicago area. Solt has won multiple awards in Pictures of the Year, World Press Photo and other competitions. She is a graduate of Ohio University¹s School of Visual Communications. Her primary interest has always been storytelling, with a focus on community photojournalism, and most recently with multimedia.

   

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  Larry McCormack

  Larry McCormack, a photojournalist with the Tennesseean in Nashville, got his start in small town newspapers. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University in 1980 with a degree in Mass Communications he worked for the Daily News Journal in Murfeeesboro until July 1981. He then moved to the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle until 1983 when he accepeted a position with the Nashville Banner, where he stayed until it closed in 1998. He has been with the Tennessean since 1998 and continues to photograph business, news, sports, fashion, food, and everthing that is required in this challenging field. Though he started photographing in black & white he has advanced through color and for the past 11 years has been producing all his images with a digital camera and processing with a computer.

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  Laura Sullivan

  Laura Sullivan has been on NPR's national desk since December of 2004. During her tenure, she has covered crime and punishment issues for “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” “Day to Day” and other NPR programs. Sullivan's 2006 news series “Life in Solitary Confinement,” which examined the state of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, received two honors: the 2006 Gracie Award for "Outstanding News Series" and the 2007 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.

  Before coming to NPR, Sullivan was the Washington correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, where she covered the Justice Department, the FBI, and terrorism. In 1996, Sullivan and two other Northwestern University students completed a project that freed four men, including two death-row inmates, who had been wrongfully convicted of an 18-year-old murder on the south side of Chicago. The case led to a review of Illinois' death row and a moratorium on capital punishment in the state. The project won a special citation from Investigative Reporters and Editors and numerous other awards.

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  Leon Alligood

  Leon Alligood is a state news reporter for The Tennessean, a position he has held since the Nashville Banner, the afternoon newspaper, ceased publication in 1998. He worked there for 11 ½ years. Prior to his arrival in Nashville, he began his career with stints at two weekly newspapers.

  Assignments have taken him as far away as Afghanistan and Iraq, but usually he is found covering the small towns of Middle Tennessee. Over the years his writing has won numerous state, regional and national honors. He is a Georgia native and a graduate of the University of Georgia. He is married and his wife, Bertie, is an 8th grade teacher and they have two grown sons, Arthur and Shep, and a dog named U.G. Lee.

• Linell Smith

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  Linell Smith is a feature writer for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. His recent work includes an in-depth portrait of a woman living with bipolar disease. She also has lectured on journalism and feature writing.

  Smtih won the Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence for "The Joeseph Palczynski Story" a two-part series on the lives of six women victimized by one man's physical and psychological abuse.

• Lisa Beckloff

  Lisa Beckloff is a reporter at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City.

• Lisa Chedekel

  Co-Founder, Connecticut Health Investigative Team

  Lisa Chedekel is a senior writer and co-founder of the online news service C-HIT (the Connecticut Health Investigative Team), which has a section devoted to veterans’ issues. She is an award-winning investigative reporter who wrote for the Hartford Courant for 15 years, covering a wide range of beats, from politics to healthcare.

  In 1999, she was among a team of journalists awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting. In 2006, Chedekel co-authored a series on mental health in the military that won the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, the George Polk Award and the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting; in 2007, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting.  Before writing for The Courant, she was a staff writer and columnist for the New Haven Register.

• Lisa DeJong

  Lisa DeJong has been a staff photographer for The Plain Dealer of Clevaland since 2007. She was previously on staff at the Flint Journal and Muskegon Chronicle in Michigan and the St. Petersburg Times in Florida.  DeJong was named Photographer of the Year in the Ohio News Photographers Association competition in 2009, and was runner-up in 2008.

  She was also runner-up for Michigan Press Photographers Association photographer of the year when she worked in Muskegon. Her work has been featured in the Columbia Journalism Review and has received accolades from Pictures of the Year International, Best of Photojournalism, the Associated Press and the Association for Women in Communications. She graduated with a degree in journalism from Michigan State University in 1992.

• Lloyd Young

  Lloyd Young is picture editor at The Boston Globe.

• Mackenzie Carpenter

  Mackenzie Carpenter is a staff writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where she has worked since 1990. She has written numerous prize-winning series on such diverse issues as liver transplant allocation; child care in the United States; the education of gifted children; domestic violence, and divorce and custody issues. Her 1997 series, "Children of the Underground," dealt with mothers who hide their children in violation of custody orders. It won a number of national, state and local awards and was republished in international newspapers and magazines, including Corriere Della Serra and Elle. Ms. Carpenter began her career as an assistant to Washington D.C. political correspondents Martin Agronsky and Paul Duke, moving on to become a field producer for public television in Washington, D.C. and, later, as host and producer of a program on politics for the Pennsylvania Public Television Network. She also worked as a reporter for the Journal-Inquirer in Manchester, CT, and United Press International's state capitol bureau in Harrisburg. She was raised in Princeton, N.J. and Tokyo and received a bachelor's degree in English from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1976 and a master's degree in studies in law from Yale Law School in 1987.

• Maggie Steber

  Maggie Steber is a documentary photographer whose body of work has centered on Haiti for the past 25 years. She has worked in 61 countries and has received awards from the World Press Photo contest, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year International and the Leica Medal of Excellence.

  Steber has received two grants to work in Haiti as well as a Knight Foundation grant in support of the New American Newspaper project.

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  Manoucheka Celeste

  Manoucheka Celeste is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington.  Originally from Port-au-Prince, she earned her B.S. in Journalism and M.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Florida.

  Celeste studies transnational media representations of race, class, gender, and citizenship with focus on the Caribbean, particularly Haiti, Latin America and the United States.  She is interested in the relationship between (re)presentation and material realities. 

  She has presented her research nationally and internationally including in Paris at the Conference for Young Scholars. She is co-founder of the Women of Color Collective at UW, which hosts the Dialoguing Difference Conference.  Her article on Haitians and Haitian immigrants in media will be published in the 2011 edition of "Images that Injure."

• Marego Athans

  Marego Athans is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun.

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  Maria Benning

  Maria Benning is a journalist based in Hannover, Germany.
  

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  Maria Godoy

  Maria Godoy is an editor with NPR's digital news division, where she oversees national news coverage.  From the national debate over gay marriage, to the downfall of GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, to a colorful virtual journey with an aerial photographer, Maria uses a mix of formats — text, images, audio, video and interactive Web tools — to tell news and feature stories online.  She was part of the NPR news teams that won the 2007 Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for Excellence in Reporting on Drug and Alcohol Issues and the 33rd annual Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio & Television.

  She is also a 2008 Ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute.  Godoy is currently spearheading npr.org's 2008 elections coverage and previously worked on the 2006 and 2004 campaign coverage.  Prior to joining NPR in 2003, Godoy worked as a science and technology reporter/television field producer for TechTV and as a daily science news editor at discovery.com.  A native of Guatemala, Godoy received her B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and was also an English literature fellow at the University of Sheffield in England. 

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  Mark Brayne

  Mark Brayne was the Director of Dart Center Europe until 2008.

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  Marsha Sills

  Marsha Sills is a staff reporter at The Daily Advertiser. Sills started her career at the newspaper in late 2001 as a night cops reporter and covered the unfolding investigation of the 2002 murder of a local woman whose death was linked to serial killer Derrick Todd Lee.

  For the past two years, Sills has covered higher education. Most recently, health-care issues have been added to her beat coverage. During Hurricane Rita, Sills reported from Lake Charles, La., which was hit hard by the storm.

  Sills has worked on other special projects for the newspaper including coverage of the 2004 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and a local team’s trek to the 2005 Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA.

  She graduated from the University of Louisiana in 2000 with a journalism degree.

  Sills, 27, is a native of Libuse, a small community in central Louisiana.

• Mary Self

  Mary Self is a psychiatrist, author and cancer survivor.

• Matt Ironside

  Matt Ironside is a student in the University of Washington News Lab.

• Matt Rainey

  Matt Rainey is a photographer for the Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ).

• Matt Sloane

  Matt Sloane is a producer for CNN Medical News.

• Matthew Kaufman

  Matthew Kauffman has been a reporter for The Hartford Courant for 21 years, and is currently assigned to the paper's investigative desk, where he works on longer-term projects. He also specializes in computer-assisted reporting and manages the newsroom's databases and Intranet. Outside the paper, he teaches a graduate-level course in computer-assisted reporting at Quinnipiac University. Before joining the investigative desk in 2004, Kauffman was a business writer and columnist, covered legal affairs, and wrote from the paper's New Haven bureau. Prior to joining The Courant, Kauffman covered local news for the Wausau Daily Herald in Wisconsin and was a reporter and editor at New Jersey Reporter magazine.  He graduated from Vassar College with a degree in political science.

• Matthew Reilly

  Matthew Reilly is a reporter for the Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ).

• Meg Moritz

  Meg Moritz is a professor and UNESCO Chair at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Colorado, Boulder. 

• Melanie Anstey

  Melanie Anstey is married to a high profile foreign correspondent. She is a freelance documentary maker, and now works for the Rory Peck Trust in London.

• Mervyn Jess

  Mervyn Jess is a reporter for BBC North Ireland.

• Michael A. Fuoco

  Michael A. Fuoco is an enterprise reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Since joining the paper in 1983, he has written spot news stories, features, enterprise pieces, and investigative stories.

  For more than a decade, he was the Pittsburgh police beat reporter. He has won national, state and regional awards for his writing. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from John Carroll University and a master's degree in journalism from Penn State University and is a fellow of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland. For a dozen years, he taught writing at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Michael Usher

  Michael has been a reporter with Australia's Nine Network for almost 20 years, where he has worked as US news correspondent, London news bureau chief and Nightline presenter.

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  Michelle Mostovy-Eisenberg

  Michelle Mostovy-Eisenberg is a reporter for the Middletown Transcript.

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  Migael Scherer

  A teacher and consultant to the Journalism and Trauma Program, Scherer has spoken on television, radio talk shows, and at workshops and conferences on the subject of trauma, victims and the media. She is the author of Still Loved by the Sun: A Rape Survivor's Journal.

• Mike Cane

  Mike Cane is a recent graduate of the University of Washington and a Seattle-based freelance writer.

• Mimi Burkhardt

  Mimi Burkhardt has served in several roles since joining the Providence Journal's copy desk in 1980. She has been night metro editor, an assistant city editor, and a projects editor. For the past three years she has been a training editor, working closely with the newspaper's two-year interns and other reporters on the state staff. It was in her role as a consultive editor she worked with Kate Bramson on the award-winning story.

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  Minerva Canto

  Minerva Canto covered immigration and U.S.-Mexico issues for the Register from 1999 to 2004, reporting in both countries on topics such as the effects of Mexico's crackdown along its border with Guatemala, unemployment in the maquiladora industry and Vicente Fox's presidential campaign.

  From 2004 to 2005 she was a local columnist. She is a native of Mexico City and was a former staff writer for The Associated Press in Los Angeles and San Diego and worked for daily newspapers in New Mexico, Washington state and Oregon.

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  Nadya Azhgikhina

  Nadya Azhgikhina is secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists.

• Nael Shyoukhri

  Nael Shyoukhri is a distinguished Palestinian cameraman who has worked for the Reuters news agency in the West Bank since 1995. In 1998 he was seriously wounded by rubber bullets fired by Israeli soldiers while covering unrest in Hebron. With support from Reuters, Nael has been an important contributor to the Dart Centre's discussions in London about how organisations can best prepare and care for employees exposed to psychological trauma.

• Niala Boodhoo

  Niala Boodhoo is the only Miami Herald reporter who also does regular radio reporting, including hosting, and producing the weekly Miami Herald Friday Business Report.
   

  She is a 2010 NPR Economic Reporting Fellow, and has been a business reporter since 2000 for the Associated Press, Reuters, and most recently, The Miami Herald.

• Niki Canham

  Niki Canham is a German & History student at University College, London.

• Nina Berman

  Nina Berman is a widely published documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. She has received awards from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Open Society Institute Documentary Fund and the World Press Photo Foundation. 

   

  She is internationally known for her photographs of wounded American military personnel, and her “Marine Wedding” portrait — showing a disfigured marine and his bride on their wedding day — is considered an iconic image from the Iraq war.

• Nina Tietzel

  Tietzel comes from Munich and is currently studying for a Masters degree in international journalism at London’s City University.

• Paolo Pellegrin

  Paolo Pellegrin is an internationally renowned photographer. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine.

  He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2001 and a full member in 2005. Pellegrin is winner of many awards, including eight World Press Photo and numerous Photographer of the Year Awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006 he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.

  He is one of the founding members of the touring exhibition and installation "Off Broadway" along with Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli and Ilkka Uimonen. He has published four books. He lives in New York and Rome.

• Pat Gilliland

  Pat Gilliland is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Patrice Keats

  Dr. Patrice Keats is an Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator in the Counselling Psychology Program in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. 

  Her primary program of research is in the field of traumatic stress studies including secondary traumatic stress, vicarious witnessing, acute and posttraumatic stress responses, and trauma treatment. She has conducted research, written and presented scholarly papers both nationally and internationally through publications and conference proceedings.

  Currently, she is the principle investigator of a national project that focuses on the experiences of photojournalists and journalists who photograph and report on trauma, disaster, and conflict events. Dr. Keats also practices as a counsellor in British Columbia with trauma survivors from civilian and military populations using both group and individual therapy.

• Patricia Callahan

  Patricia Callahan is a reporter for the Denver Post.

• Patricia Meisol

  Patricia Meisol is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun.

• Patricia Wen

  Patricia Wen covers children and family issues for the metro section of The Boston Globe. A staff writer since 1986, she had previously worked on the education and health-science staff, as well as served for three years on the Globe’s Spotlight Team, the newspaper’s investigative reporting unit.

  In 2004, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for a series she wrote on a troubled mother’s decision to release her children for adoption. That same series won her a 2004 Casey Medal for Medal for Meritorious Journalism for distinguished coverage of children and family issues. She was also part of the Globe’s 1990 Spotlight Team that won the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for public service for a series on the Massachusetts judiciary. Prior to joining the Globe, Wen worked as a reporter at The Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ and The Advocate in Stamford, CT.

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  Patrick Cox

  Patrick Cox has reported and written series on international terrorism (1999), Middle East history (2002), the U.S.- Mexico border (2004) and Hiroshima's Survivors (2005). Cox has also filed reports from around the world: the Balkans and the former Soviet Union (ethnic conflicts and emerging democracies), South Korea and Japan (soccer's 2002 World Cup) and Chile (some of the world's largest telescopes).

  Before joining The World, Cox reported for public radio stations in San Francisco, Portland, Oregon and Boston. In 1998 he was awarded a Knight International Press Fellowship and spent six months training journalists in Moldova, Romania and Hungary. His favorite job, though, was at Copenhagen University's Philosophy Department where he cleaned the bathrooms.

• Patrick Dugan

  Chief Judge, Philadelphia Veterans Court

  Patrick Dugan is the chief judge of the Philadelphia Veterans Court, which provides a holistic “Treatment Court” approach to criminal justice involving veterans. Judge Dugan is also a Captain in the US Army Reserves. He first enlisted in the Army Reserves in 1981 as a Nuclear Biological Warfare Specialist, and from 1983-1989 was active duty as an airborne infantryman. He served with the 82nd Airborne Division as a M60 Gunner in Recon 1/505 Airborne Infantry, in South Korea with the 2nd Infantry Division, and in Panama with the 1/508th Airborne Infantry. Upon returning home he earned his B.A. and J.D., and for over a decade practiced law with a special emphasis on children and the poor.

  At the start of the Iraq war in 2003, Judge Dugan re-enlisted and served in Mosul as part of the 416th Civil Affairs from Norristown PA. He served as a Political Officer and Public Administration Officer for the US Embassy. He was instrumental in forming one of the first Women’s Empowerment Groups in Iraq, and assisted in forming many local NGOs. He was a direct liaison to numerous Iraqi officials with the US State Department and US military. In 2005, Dugan received a Direct Commission to US Army JAG, and was deployed to Bagram Afghanistan in 2006. He served in a military legal capacity for the 82nd Airborne and the 10th Mountain Division as the Chief of Legal Assistance and Federal Claims Commission. While waiting for release from active duty, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell appointed him in 2007 to judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court where he presides over thousands of preliminary hearings and trials each year and soon after to the Philadelphia Veterans Court. He has received many medals and honors for his service. Judge Dugan is on the Board of the Directors of the Philadelphia Korean Memorial, Philadelphia’s City Veteran Advisory Commission and Philadelphia Comfort House.

• Patrick Hamilton

  Patrick Hamilton covered the 2004 tsunami as an award-winning photographer for The Australian.

• Patrick Murphy

  Former U.S. Congressman

  Patrick J. Murphy is an attorney in Philadelphia. A former U.S. Congressman and decorated U.S. Army veteran, he has a long history of service to both public and private sector groups in the Philadelphia region, in Washington and nationally. He has extensive experience defending and prosecuting clients in litigation matters in civil, criminal and military courts.

  After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he volunteered for overseas deployment, serving in Bosnia (2002) and in Baghdad during the Iraq war (2003–2004). While in Baghdad, as a captain in the Army’s U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, he worked to reconstruct the justice system and was awarded the Bronze Star for Service.

  In 2006, he was first Iraq war veteran elected to Congress, representing Pennsylvania’s Eighth District. He worked to implement measures for fiscal responsibility at the federal level and to pass laws that benefit active members of the military, veterans and their families. He was the author and chief sponsor of the bill repealing the Defense Department's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy concerning gay service members and played a significant role in the passage of the 21st Century GI Bill, which provides individuals with various resources upon completion of military service.

• Paul Hu

  Paul Hu is a photographer for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

• Paul Meyer

  Paul Meyer has worked as a government and general assignments reporter since 2003 for The Dallas Morning News.  His stories have included an investigation into failures to protect human trafficking victims, coverage of the plight of Palestinian asylum seekers and reporting from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  Meyer earned his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2000, and prior to entering journalism, he lived and worked in Russia, Mongolia, China and Nepal.

• Paul Sullivan

  Executive Director, Veterans for Common Sense

  Paul Sullivan is executive director of Veterans for Common Sense. He served as an Army cavalry scout during the 1991 Gulf war. Since 2007, he has testified seven times before Congress about the needs and concerns of veterans. During 2008, VCS appeared in more than 300 news articles related to veterans, national security and civil liberties.
   

  From 1995 to 2000, Sullivan worked for the National Gulf War Resource Center, where he was instrumental in providing advocacy for the passage of the Persian Gulf Veterans Act of 1998, a law that would expand healthcare and disability benefits for Gulf War veterans. From 2000 to 2006, Sullivan worked as a project manager at the Veterans Administration, where he prepared statistical and analytical reports related to the Gulf war and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  While at VA, he provided staff support for then-VA Secretary Anthony Principi’s Task Force for Seamless Transition and wrote the 2004 Task Force report.

• Paula Domenici, Ph.D

  Adjunct Assistant Professor, USU Center for Deployment Psychology

  Paula Domenici, Ph.D., is a licensed counseling psychologist working as head of the Division of Training Programs at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. In this capacity, she oversees training courses for military and civilian mental health professionals and presents workshops to clinicians from various disciplines on psychology-related topics.  From 2006 to 2007, she worked as the deployment behavioral health psychologist for the CDP at the National Naval Medical Center, where she saw Marines in both the outpatient behavioral health clinic and inpatient casualty care unit. She performed psychological evaluations and provided individual and group treatment for PTSD and other post-deployment concerns.

  Prior to joining the CDP, Domenici was an APA Congressional Fellow at the office of Senator Hillary Clinton, where she covered mental health, aging and deployment-related veterans’ issues in the legislative arena. She also has worked as a staff psychologist and postdoctoral fellow at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, providing individual and group therapy to OIF/OEF, Vietnam and WWII veterans. Dr. Domenici is a co-author of  “Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families,” which has sold nearly 150,000 copies.

• Penny Owen

  Penny Owen began her career as an intern for The Daily Oklahoman in 1992, where she was hired after graduating with a B.A. in Journalism. She worked her way through the lower echelon of the newsroom with police and general assignment reporting; then, three years into her career, Ms. Owen found herself on the front lines of covering the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, then known as the worst domestic bombing in U.S. history.

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  Peter Drought

  Peter Drought is Senior Camera Operator and Senior Field Operator for News and Current Affairs at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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  Philippa Goodrich

  Philippa Goodrich is a producer for the BBC.

• Pierre Savary

  Directeur des études à l’Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Lille

  Directeur des études à l’Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Lille

• Pierre Savary

  Directeur des études à l’Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Lille

  Directeur des études à l’Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Lille

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  Rachel Dissell

  Metro Reporter, The Plain Dealer

  Rachel Dissell is a Metro reporter for The Plain Dealer where she focuses on the impact of violence against women and children and other social justice issues. She has written investigative pieces about Cleveland’s response to sexual assault, gun violence and teen dating violence. Dissell also covered a massive federal county corruption probe.

  Dissell was awarded the 2008 Dart Award with photographer Gus Chan for their nine-part series “Johanna: Facing Forward” that chronicled the life of a Cleveland teen who was raped and shot by her ex-boyfriend. In 2011, Dissell was honored with End Violence Against Women International’s first ever Media Excellence Award. Dissell and colleague Leila Atassi also won numerous statewide awards for their series probing the Cleveland police and their response to rape victims in the wake of the serial killings of 11 black women by convicted sex offender Anthony Sowell. The eldest of seven children, Dissell grew up in and around the poverty, drug use and social ills that often are central to the stories she covers. In addition to her journalism work, Dissell is a mentor to children aging out of the foster care system and participates in several therapeutic programs for children who have witnessed violence.

• Ralph de la Cruz

  Ralph de la Cruz is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

• Randal Beam

  2010

  Randal Beam is an associate professor at the University of Washington Department of Communication. He teaches courses on journalism and the mass media and is a co-author of “The American Journalist in the 21st Century: U.S. News People at the Dawn of a New Millennium.”

  The book, based on a national survey of about 1,300 newsmen and newswomen, examines the social characteristics, values, working conditions and ethical beliefs of U.S journalists. Beam also has co-authored an article about journalists and trauma. He is active in the Media Management and Economics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). He serves on the editorial boards of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and of the International Journal on Media Management.

• Rebecca Droke

  Rebecca Droke has been a staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for three years. Before that she worked at the Durango Herald. She graduated from Ohio Unversity's School of Visual Communication in 2005.

• Rebecca Solnit

  Rebecca Solnit is the author of thirteen books, including 2010's Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; 2007's Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics; 2005's A Field Guide to Getting Lost; 2004’s Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; and 2003’s River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, which won a Guggenheim in its research phase and several awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism after publication.

   

  An activist and a longtime San Franciscan, she writes about landscape, cities, and other geographies, the environment, politics, and visual culture. A contributing editor to Harper's, columnist for Orion, and frequent contributor Tomdispatch.com, she is also a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award.

• Regina H. Boone

  Regina H. Boone has been a staff photographer at the Detroit Free Press since 2003.

  The Virginia native has covered breaking news, features, and national news, including covering Rosa Parks’ death, and helped chronicle Barack Obama’s journey to the White House. She was a part of the Free Press coverage of the historic 2008 Presidential Inauguration.  She has also worked on special projects, including the national Emmy-winning “Boys of Christ Child House.”  Regina has also received awards from the Michigan and Virginia Press Photographers Associations.  She has been a Knight Fellow, and she traveled to Senegal in 2007 as a National Association of Black Journalists Fellow.  She received an undergraduate degree in political science from Spelman College and worked on her master’s degree at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication. Prior to joining the staff at the Detroit Free Press, Boone worked at the Richmond Free Press in Virginia.

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  Renee Byer

  Renee C. Byer is an award winning photographer who started her photojournalism career at the Peoria Journal Star. (Illinois). Other photo positions include stints at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) Statesman Journal in Salem (OR), The Oregonian in Portland (OR), Syracuse newspapers in Syracuse (NY), The Hartford Currant (CT), The Transcript-Telegram in Holyoke (MA). She currently is on the photo staff of the Sacramento Bee, (CA).

  Byer has won numerous NPPA Pictures of the Year Awards, Society of News Design awards and was National Co-chair for Women in Photojournalism from 1994-1998..

  Byer received a B.S. degree from Bradley University, Peoria, Il. and also attended Syracuse University in a multimedia master's program.

  While at the P-I, Byer worked closely with reporter Carol Smith on the story "The ones she left behind," in order to shoot sensitive photos to accompany the story about the life of a father and baby son who were devastated by the suicide of "mom" who was suffering from serious post-partum depression.

• Reza Afshari

  Reza Afshari is a professor of history and human rights at Pace University. He specializes in the historiography of human rights, focusing on the Middle East.

• Rick McFarland

  Rick McFarland is a photographer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

• Rick Nease

  Rick Nease is an award-winning art director and illustrator for the Detroit Free Press.

  For over 26 years, Rick has worked as an artist in the newspaper industry, first with The Toledo Blade for 10 years and then the Free Press. Known for his conceptually creative and diverse styles, Rick is often tapped for the large display illustrations and portraits that adorn the Free Press. Rick’s work has also appeared in newspapers across the country including The New York Times and Chicago Tribune as well as Time, Entertainment Weekly, Crains and other national magazines. 

• River Smith

  River Smith is a postdoctoral fellow in clinical psychology for the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is a recent graduate from the University of Tulsa. Her research interests include the impact of exposure to traumatic events on individuals exposed in their line of duty, including military personnel and journalists. She currently works in primary care psychology, where a large part of her clinical activities involve the identification of veterans in need of treatment for PTSD.

• Rob Perez

  Investigative Reporter, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

  Rob Perez is an investigative reporter for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He has won numerous state, regional and national honors, including the National Headliner and Best of the West awards as well as the 2009 Dart Award for the series “Crossing the Line: Abuse in Hawai’i Homes.” He is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting.

  Perez began his journalism career more than 30 years ago in Guam, where he's from. He has also worked for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Orange County Register, Sun of San Bernardino County and Florida Today. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego.

• Robert Anda, M.D.

  Senior Researcher of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology

  Robert Anda is a Senior Researcher in Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the principal investigator with the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, which examines the health and social effects of adverse childhood experiences over the lifespan.

  Anda graduated from Rush Medical College in 1979 and received his Board Certification in Internal Medicine in 1982. In 1984 he completed a Fellowship in Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin where he also received a Master's Degree in Epidemiology. He spent 20 years in the U.S. Public Health Service at the C.D.C. conducting research in a variety of areas including disease surveillance, behavioral health, mental health and disease, cardiovascular disease investigations, and childhood determinants of health. Anda has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications as well as numerous government publications and has authored several book chapters. In addition, he has received numerous awards and recognition for scientific achievements.

• Robert Benincasa

  Robert Benincasa is a producer for National Public Radio in Washington, DC. He works mainly on web and radio stories that involve data analysis and multimedia data presentations.

  Prior to joining NPR, Benincasa was database editor for the Gannett News Service, the wire service subsidiary of the Gannett Company.  During 10 years in that post, he produced database-driven enterprise projects and searchable online databases for use by Gannett's daily newspapers and television stations. Benincasa won a 2006 Philip Meyer Award for an investigative project comparing the quality of heart care at more than 3,000 hospitals across the country.

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  Robert Holloway

  Robert Holloway is Deputy Head of AFP's English-language news service.

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  Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.

  Lecturer, Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance

  Robert Jay Lifton, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, has written about various destructive historical events, and is the author of a recent memoir, Witness to an Extreme Century.

  He is the author of more than 10 critically-acclaimed books and hundreds of scholarly and popular articles. He is the recipient of countless honors and awards including a the Lifetime Achievement Award from The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; The Lisl and Leo Eitinger Award from The University of Oslo; the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; a National Book Award, and a wide variety of honorary degrees from national and international academic institutions.

• Robert Medley

  Robert Medley is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Robert Nickelsberg

  Robert Nickelsberg is a photojournalist currently documenting the ongoing effects of terrorism in South Asia and the Middle East. He has worked in photojournalism for more than three decades. Recent work includes assignments in Afghanistan and Iraq for publications such as TIME and the New York Times.

  Nickelsberg traveled to Central America in 1979 and photographed the final days of Nicaragua's Somoza government. In 1981, he moved to El Salvador and began a four-year stay covering Central America, where he became a contract photographer for Time Magazine. Nickelsberg moved to Southeast Asia in 1986 and New Dehli, India in 1988 where he lived until 1999. Nickelsberg has extensively documented the insurgency in India's Kashmir, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan and Pakistan and India's Hindu nationalism movement. Nickelsberg relocated to the U.S. in 1999. Since then, he has photographed in Florida, the Caribbean, Cuba and Colombia.

• Robin Fields

  Robin Fields has worked for the Los Angeles Times since 1999, and as a full-time investigative reporter since 2002. Stories she has done in recent years include investigations into rogue political fundraiser Norman Hsu, California’s adult guardianship system and abuses at the J. Paul Getty Trust. Fields began her career at the Sun-Sentinel in South Florida. Fields has received a National Journalism Award for investigative reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Public Service Award and an Associated Press Managing Editors Public Service Award.

   

• Robin Gaby Fisher

  Robin Gaby Fisher is a reporter for the Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ).

• Rodolfo Gonzalez

  Rodolfo Gonzalez is a photographer for the Austin American-Statesman (Austin, TX).

• Roger Simpson

  Roger Simpson is a former executive director of the Dart Center and co-author of "Covering Violence: An Ethical Guide to Reporting about Victims and Violence," published in 2000 by Columbia University Press.

• Ron Haviv

  Ron Haviv s a renowned documentary photographer, and co-founder of the VII photo agency. His work on humanitarian crises and conflicts has been published internationally in magazines including Stern, Paris Match, Newsweek, and the New York Times Magazine. In 2004 he was named an Ochberg fellow by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and joined the Dart Society. His books include: "Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal," "Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul" and the recently published "Haiti: January 12, 2010." This latest work is a book/exhibition conceived in collaboration with de.MO, The Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University and VII to benefit Partners In Health and its Stand with Haiti campaign.

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  Rose Palmisano

  Rose Palmisano a Register photographer, has covered border issues for 12 years. She documented the lives of migrant workers on both sides of the border and of illegal immigrants living in the United States. She spent several months photographing homeless children in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. 

  She also has worked in Latin America, covering cultural issues and the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua. She joined the Register in November 2002. She grew up in New Mexico.

• Roya Hakakian

  Roya Hakakian is a writer, poet and journalist. She is a fellow at Yale University's Whitney Humanities Center, a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and a board member of Refugees International.

  Hakakian has collaborated on over a dozen hours of programming for leading journalism units on network television. Her opinion columns, essays, and book reviews appear in English language publications, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal among them. She is also a contributor to the Weekend Edition of NPR's All Things Considered. Roya is a member of the editorial board of the journal, World Affairs: A Journal Of Ideas And Debate.

  Born and raised in a Jewish family in Tehran, Roya came to the United States in May 1985 on political asylum. She lives in Connecticut. 
  

• Russell McCrory

  Russell McCrory is a designer at The Honolulu Advertiser where he has worked since 2004.  Previously, he worked for the Orlando Sentinel as a page designer. His background includes features design, graphics design and copy editing at Texas newspapers including The Victoria Advocate, Valley Morning Star and The Monitor.

• Ruth Morris

  Ruth Morris is associate producer and web editor for WLRN's "Under the Sun." 

  Ruth came to South Florida to cover immigration for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.  Before that, she worked as a freelance journalist in Latin America, reporting on Colombian drug violence and Venezuelan politics.  She has also worked in Israel, covering the Palestinian intifada, and in Cuba, as a member of that country’s small foreign press corps.  Ruth returned to freelancing six months ago.  She also teaches creative writing at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.  Ruth edits and writes for the Under the Sun website. 

• Sacha Pfeiffer

  Host and Senior Reporter, WBUR

  Sacha Pfeiffer is host of WBUR’s “All Things Considered.” She was previously host of “Radio Boston,” the station’s weekday show highlighting interesting people, places and issues in Boston and beyond. Pfeiffer joined WBUR in 2008 after more than a decade as a reporter for the Boston Globe, where she was on the Spotlight investigative team that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its stories on sex abuse in the Catholic church.

  At WBUR, Pfeiffer was initially a senior on-air reporter covering health, science, medicine and the environment, and she has received two Associated Press Awards for broadcast reporting and three Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio and Television News Directors Association.

  After graduating magna cum laude from Boston University with a double major in English and history, Pfeiffer got her start in journalism at the Dedham Times, a weekly newspaper south of Boston. She moved to the Globe in 1995, first as a general assignment reporter, then covering state courts, then doing investigative work. During her four years on the Globe’s Spotlight Team, she produced series on financial abuses by private foundations, George W. Bush’s military service, shoddy home construction and the Catholic Church’s cover-up of clergy sex abuse. The latter series also won a George Polk Award for National Reporting, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, and Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, among other honors. From 2004 to 2005, Pfeiffer was a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University, where she studied at Stanford Law School. When she returned to the Globe, she created a legal affairs beat and also covered nonprofits and philanthropy. Pfeiffer is a co-author of Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church and has been an adjunct faculty member at Boston University’s College of Communication.

• Saed Hindash

  Saed Hindash is a photojournalist at the Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s largest newspaper. In 2002 he won the Dart Award, along with reporter Matt Reilly, for a story about a Siberian orphan who was beaten and froze to death in the custody of his adoptive parents in central New Jersey. Before joining the Star-Ledger, Hindash worked for newspapers in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and in Everett, WA.

• Sammy Mack

  Sammy Mack is a freelance writer and assistant producer at WLRN's "Under the Sun." 

  Growing up on the Gulf Coast, Sammy published her first articles in the St. Petersburg Times‘ Monday morning kids section. In 2008, she was a Poynter Summer Fellow.  She came back to Florida after a stint in New Orleans, where she covered health care and got her masters degree in public health.

• Sandi Davis

  Sandi Davis is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Sandra L. Bloom, M.D.

  Psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy

  Sandra L. Bloom, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist and associate professor of health
  management and policy and co-director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at
  the School of Public Health of Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is also past president of
  the International Society for Traumatic Studies. From 1980 to 2001, Bloom was
  medical director of the Sanctuary programs. Her first book, Creating Sanctuary: Toward the
  Evolution of Sane Societies, describes the experience of Bloom and her colleagues as they
  learned what it means to become “trauma-informed.”

  In 2005, Bloom partnered with Andrus Children’s Center to establish the Sanctuary Institute
  to train a wide variety of human service delivery programs in the Sanctuary model, a trauma-informed approach to organizational change. She currently serves as distinguished fellow of Andrus Children’s Center and has developed over 100 programs nationally and internationally in adopting the Sanctuary model. These programs include residential settings for children, group homes, schools, substance abuse programs, shelters, outpatient facilities, child welfare agencies and juvenile justice programs. Bloom is a past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. A new book, co-authored with Brian Farragher, chief operating officer at Andrus Children’s Center, is Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery, published by Oxford University Press in 2010. The third volume of the series, Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Organizations, will be published this year.

• Sara Tiegreen

  Sara Tiegreen is a clinical psychologist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Durham, NC.  She worked with Elana Newman as a graduate student at the University of Tulsa and currently assesses and treats military veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder.

• Sarah Schweitzer

  Sarah Schweitzer has been a reporter for The Boston Globe for a decade. She has covered Boston City Hall, presidential elections, higher education, and roamed the New England countryside as a roving reporter.

  Most recently, she has been a news feature writer focused on wealth and cultural issues in the Boston region. Schweitzer began her professional journalism career in Concord, NH working for the Concord Monitor, and later worked in the Tampa bureau of the St. Petersburg Times.

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  Scott North

  As a courts and crime reporter for The Herald in Everett, WA, Scott North has developed innovative techniques in covering violence in a sensitive, accurate, and insightful way. He was a 2003 Ochberg Fellow and is the President of the Dart Society.

• Shaheen Buneri

  Shaheen Buneri is a journalist based in Peshawar, Pakistan. He covers issues related to politics, society and cultural heritage for national and international media.

• Sharon Dowell

  Sharon Dowell is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Sharon Stewart

  Sharon Stewart is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

• Sheila S. Coronel

  Sheila S. Coronel is director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a co-founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and author and editor of more than a dozen books, including “Coups, Cults & Cannibals,” a collection of reportage; “The Rulemakers: How the Wealthy and Well-Born Dominate Congress;” and “Pork and Other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines.”

• Sheri Fink

  Sheri Fink, a medical doctor and journalist, has reported on health, medicine and science in the U.S. and from every continent except Antarctica.

  She was a frequent contributor to the public radio newsmagazine PRI’s “The World,” covering the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and international aid in development, conflict and disaster settings. Her articles have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Discover and Scientific American.  Fink's book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs, 2003), won the American Medical Writer's Association special book award and was a finalist for the Overseas Press Club and PEN Martha Albrand awards. Fink received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford, and worked with humanitarian aid organizations in more than a half dozen emergencies in the U.S. and overseas. She has taught at Harvard, Tulane and the New School. Most recently Fink was the recipient of a Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health from the Kaiser Family Foundation and she is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

• Sonya N. Hebert

  Sonya N. Hebert is a staff photographer at The Dallas Morning News. Prior to joining The Dallas Morning News in 2007, Sonya interned at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. and attended the Ohio University School of Visual Communication.

  Before becoming a photojournalist, Sonya worked as an assistant director at the U.S. Senate Press Photographers’ Gallery, served as a special assistant to the director of communications in the Clinton White House and worked as a program officer at the President’s Interagency Council on Women in Washington, D.C.

  Sonya was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature photography for the project “At the Edge of Life,” an empathetic look at dying patients navigating the end of life. Among other awards, Sonya received a 2010 national Edward R. Murrow Award, the 2010 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, a 2009 ASNE Community Service Photojournalism Award and the 2009 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. Sonya’s photography and multimedia storytelling have been recognized in national contests such as Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association: Best of Photojournalism.

• Staton Breidenthal

  Staton Breidenthal is a staff photographer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

• Stefanie Friedhoff

  Stefanie Friedhoff is special projects manager at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She is also a freelance journalist and science writer for U.S. and European media such as Time and Folio/Neue Zuercher Zeitung.

  Friedhoff started a career as a freelance correspondent based in Cambridge, Mass., in 1998. Previously, she worked for BZ, Berlin’s largest daily newspaper, where she was news editor and editor of the Sunday magazine. She was a 2001 Nieman Fellow and organized a number of educational workshops and conferences for the foundation before joining the staff part time in 2006.

• Stella Chavez

  Stella M. Chávez is a staff writer for The Dallas Morning News where she covers neighborhoods and diversity in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Chávez began her career at The (Lakeland) Ledger covering small towns in Polk County, Florida and the migrant farm worker community. She also wrote the paper’s first weekly column about diversity called “Faces of Polk.”  After leaving The Ledger, she joined the staff of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, where she covered local government as well as immigrant communities. She helped cover several national stories, including the Elian Gonzalez saga and the 2000 election debacle.  A native Texan, Chávez graduated in 1995 from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants.

• Stephanie Klein-Davis

  Stephanie Klein-Davis is a photographer for The Roanoke Times.

• Stephen Engelberg

  Stephen Engelberg is the managing editor of ProPublica.

  He came to ProPublica from The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, where he had been a managing editor since 2002. Before joining The Oregonian, Mr. Engelberg worked for The New York Times for 18 years, including stints in Washington, DC and Warsaw, Poland as well as in New York. After beginning his career at the Times, he worked as a reporter for the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia and for The Dallas Morning News before returning to the Times to write news and investigative articles on national security matters. After a stint as the Times bureau chief in Warsaw immediately following the collapse of Communism, he resumed his work as an investigative reporter in 1993. Engelberg shared in two George Polk Awards for reporting: the first, in 1989, for articles on nuclear proliferation; the second, in 1994, for articles on U.S. immigration. A group of articles he co-authored in 1995 on an airplane crash was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Engelberg’s work since 1996 has focused largely on the editing of investigative projects. He started the Times's investigative unit in 2000. Projects he supervised at the Times on Mexican corruption (published in 1997) and the rise of Al Qaeda (published beginning in January 2001) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. During his years at The Oregonian, the paper won the Pulitzer for breaking news and was finalist for its investigative work on methamphetamines and charities intended to help the disabled. He is the co-author of Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War (2001).

• Steve Anderson

  Steve Anderson is a page designer for the Detroit Free Press.

• Steve Jackson

  Steve Jackson is a reporter for the Westword in Denver, CO.

• Steven Sayers

  Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

  Steven Sayers, PhD has been a psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine since 2001 and associate professor since 2010.

  His primary area of research includes family factors in mental health and he is currently focusing on family issues in returning combat veterans. He has also worked with VA Central Office on several clinical initiatives over past several years to improve veteran and family services at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center and other medical centers. Sayers currently directs an outreach project involving telephone-based coaching of family members who are trying to encourage a veteran to seek mental health care. In 2008, he presented testimony to the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs regarding his research with veterans and their family members.

• Steven Wilmsen

  Steven Wilmsen is enterprise editor on the Globe's Metro desk.

  Joining the Globe in 1997 from the Denver Post, Wilmsen worked as an investigative business reporter and at City Hall before turning to editing.  He is author of the book, Silverado: Neil Bush and the Savings and Loan Scandal, about the involvement of then President George H.W. Bush's son, Neil, in the $1 billion failure of a Denver thrift.  His work has appeared in publications including the Washington Monthly and Playboy.

• Sue Jameson

  Sue Jameson is a Good Morning Television correspondent.

• Summer Nelson

  Summer Nelson is a graduate student and research associate at the University of Tulsa.

• Susan Hall-Balduf

  Susan Hall-Balduf is a copy editor for the Detroit Free Press.

• Susan Kaplan

  Reporter, WFCR

  Susan Kaplan has been a reporter at WFCR, an NPR affiliate in Western Massachusetts, since 1995. Her work focuses on education, innovative technologies and, most recently, women in the military. Her stories have been heard on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and On the Media. Most recently, she reported on military sexual trauma among women veterans that ran during a week-long series on All Things Considered. Her work has received numerous AP awards. For six years she hosted a weekly public affairs program on the PBS affiliate WGBY in Springfield, Massachusetts.

• Susan Pack

  Susan Pack is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

• Susan White

  Susan White is senior editor for ProPublica.

  She worked at the San Diego Union-Tribune from 1994 until 2007, serving ultimately as the newspaper’s enterprise editor. She played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of corruption by former U.S. Rep. Randy Cunningham. Her experience at the Union-Tribune included stints as border editor and writing coach. Earlier in her career, Ms. White worked for 14 years as a reporter and television critic at the Lexington Herald-Leader.

• Susanne Reber

  Susanne Reber is NPR's Deputy Managing Editor of Investigations.

  Prior to joining NPR, she led the investigative unit at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Under Susanne's leadership, the CBC's investigative team earned top prizes, including the 2008 Michener, and awards from the Online News Association, the Radio and Television News Directors Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors. Reber has also done extensive work as an investigative field reporter, covering stories in Czechoslovakia, Johannesburg and Saskatchewan.

• Suzanne Kreiter

  Suzanne Kreiter has been a staff photographer at The Boston Globe since 1985. 

  During her 25-year career as a photojournalist, she has traveled extensively and covered events ranging from the Nicaraguan civil war to pollution behind the Iron Curtain to the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

• Syed Nazakat

  Syed Nazakat is a senior journalist from Indian Kashmir based in New Delhi, India.  He has reported extensively from one of the most conflict ridden and heavily militarized zones in the Indian subcontinent – the Line of Control that marks the border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir. He is a fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism, Manila.

• T. Christian Miller

  Senior Reporter, ProPublica

  T. Christian Miller is a senior reporter at ProPublica, based in Washington D.C. Before he joined ProPublica in 2008, he spent the previous 11 years reporting for the Los Angeles Times.

  Earlier in his career he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle and the St. Petersburg Times. He has received the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for online reporting, two Overseas Press Club awards, a Livingston Award for Young Journalists, the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Reporting and a certificate of recognition from the Daniel Pearl awards for outstanding international investigative reporting. Miller is the author of Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq. 

• Tamie Ross

  Tamie Ross is a staff writer at The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, OK.

• Theo Douglas

  Theo Douglas is a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, CA.

• Thomas Huang

  Thomas Huang is Sunday & Enterprise Editor at The Dallas Morning News. He is also an adjunct faculty member of The Poynter Institute, a school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla.

  In 2008, as a Poynter Fellow, he taught seminar sessions in ethics, diversity and leadership issues. He was co-editor of Poynter’s Best Newspaper Writing book for 2008-2009. He has worked at The Dallas Morning News since 1993, first as a feature writer, then as features editor, and now as the Sunday Page One editor. Before moving to Dallas, he worked at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, where he covered courts, city hall, demographics and general assignments. He is past president of AASFE and serves on the advisory board of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and the national advisory board of the Asian American Journalists Association. He is also a contributor to the Nieman Storyboard’s Editors’ Roundtable.

• Torri Minton

  Award-winning journalist Torri Minton had a 16-year career at the San Francisco Chronicle and was a college journalism instructor before her death from cancer in August 2004. While at the Chronicle, Minton specialized in light, amusing features, but also reported major news stories, including the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and Polly Klass’s kidnapping and murder in 1993. She received a National Mental Health Association Gold Award for her reporting on earthquake survivors, and was honored by the Leukemia Society of America for a series on a 5-year-old girl with leukemia. Minton received the 1994 Dart Award Honorable mention for her personal reporting of her sister’s stabbing. Minton left the Chronicle in 2002 to teach journalism classes at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and Laney College. She was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in April 2004 and died on Aug. 4, 2004.

• Trina Sargalski

  Trina Sargalski is an independent radio producer and freelance writer.   She curates and produces pieces for the segment “All in a Day’s Work,” as well as producing other features for Under the Sun.

  She also designed, writes, and edits the series’ award-winning website. Trina is the creator and editor of Miami Dish, a multimedia blog about “all things local and edible in South Florida.” 

• Ung Bun Y

  Ung Bun Y is a journalist based in Cambodia and a student at the Department of Media & Communication of the Royal University of Phnom Penh.

• Valentin Areh

  Valentin Areh is a Slovenian war correspondent.

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  Virginia Crompton

  Virginia Crompton is a BBC producer, whose experience recording a World Service radio programme on water in Africa is a reminder that trauma is a part of daily experience in many parts of the world – and how important it is for journalists and their editors to be aware of that as they prepare for assignments there.

• Waveney Ann Moore

  Waveney Ann Moore is a general assignment reporter for the St. Petersburg Times.

  She was a member of the team that covered Rev. Henry Lyons, former head of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A, who was sent to prison for swindling more than $5.2 million. Born in Guyana, South America, Moore grew up an avid reader in a country without television. She came to the United States in 1971 and is a naturalized American citizen. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in English and Communications from the College of New Rochelle in New York. She worked for the Kansas City Star and several gourmet food magazines before joining the Times in 1994.

• Will T. Mari

  Will T. Mari is a doctoral student in the department of communication at the University of Washington.

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  William Birnbauer

  William Birnbauer is a reporter for The Age (Melbourne, Australia).

• William Coté

  William Coté is emeritus professor of journalism at Michigan State University where he was coordinator of the Victims and the Media Program. For almost twenty years he was a professional journalist at the Ypsilanti Press and the Booth Newspapers State Capitol Bureau.

• Yosri Fouda

  Yosri Fouda is a senior editor with the Arabic television station Al-Jazeera, and was the first journalist to interview leaders of Al-Qaeda following the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

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  Yvette Cabrera

  Yvette Cabrera is an Orange County Register local news columnist who writes about the Latino community in Orange County, and also serves as the newspaper’s Latino coverage coordinator.

  She has tackled health issues such as diabetes and alcoholism among Latinos, explored the obstacles facing Latino immigrants, and dealt with topics ranging from the cultural taboos tied to AIDS/HIV in the Latino community to the bicultural lifestyles of today’s Latino youth.

  Prior to the Orange County Register, Yvette worked at the Los Angeles Daily News as a metro reporter covering immigration, Latino issues and the communities of the Northeast San Fernando Valley.

  Previously, she worked as a news reporter at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., and at the Los Angeles Times.

  While at the Los Angeles Daily News she received a first place award from the California Chicano News Media association for her news-feature "Fighting Chance," about a young Sylmar boy's struggle to receive a bone marrow transplant to fight his leukemia. The story highlighted the need for the Latino community to step forward and join the national bone marrow registry to help other Latinos diagnosed with cancer.

  In 1998, Yvette was honored by the Comisión Femenil of the San Fernando Valley, a chapter of the national Latina organization, for her work in covering the Northeast Valley's Latino community.

  In 2003, she was honored with a Crystal Award from the Orange County chapter of MANA, a national Latina organization, for contributing to the positive image of Latinas in the media. She was also a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2003.

  The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Yvette was born and raised in Santa Barbara, Ca. She graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles, majoring in history with an emphasis on Latin American studies and a minor in anthropology.

  She is currently a statewide board member and professional vice president for the California Chicano News Media Association, as well as a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

• Zhao Xue

  Zhao Xue is a graduate student in International Journalism at City University London. She is originally from Beijing, China.