Julian Rubinstein, Senior Producer and Editor

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Julian Rubinstein is an award-winning independent journalist, author, producer and adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. His magazine work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Details, Travel + Leisure, Salon and others, and earned inclusion in Best American Essays, Best American Crime Writing, and twice in Best American Sports Writing. His non-fiction book, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, about the Hungarian folk hero Attila Ambrus and the tumultuous post-communist era in Eastern Europe, was the winner of Borders “Original Voices” Book of the Year, a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Fact Crime, a finalist for the Anthony Award for Best Non-fiction, and a New York Times “Editors Choice.” He co-produced, directed, and composed music for an audio cabaret style adaptation of the book that was named a finalist for the Audie Award for Best Audio Book. Johnny Depp purchased the film rights.

Natalie Jeremijenko, Senior Producer, Technologist

Named one of the most influential women in technology 2011 by Fast Company, and one of the inaugural top young innovators by MIT Technology Review, Natalie Jeremijenko directs the Environmental Health Clinic, and is an Associate Professor in the Visual Art Department at NYU. She is also affiliated with the Computer Science Dept and Environmental Studies program. Previously she was on the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, and Faculty of Engineering at Yale University. Her work has been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, 2006,1997; the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial 2006-7; in 2010 solo exhibition at the Neuberger Museum, Connected Environments, surveying recent work; and X, 2010 at the UTS. Wired magazine has called her “one of the three or four most dynamic people on the face of the earth.” She has been developing indices for more than a decade. She was born and raised in Australia and currently lives in New York.

Elizabeth Rubin, Senior Producer and International Editor

Elizabeth Rubin is an award-winning independent journalist. She has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, for which she is a contributing writer. She has also covered conflict zones in Central and South Asia, Russia and the Caucasus, Africa, and the Balkans for the New Yorker, Harper's, Time, National Geographic and others. Her journalism has been honored with a Livingston Award, a Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, and been named a finalist for a National Magazine Award, and the Michael Kelly Award. In 2011, she was honored with the John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement. She is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and holds a master's degree in philosophy from Oxford University.

Monica Campbell, Contributing Editor and Producer

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Monica Campbell is an independent journalist based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle and Newsweek among others. Campbell served as the Mexico consultant for the Committee to Protect Journalists, and from 2009-10, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. In 2010, Campbell researched the escalation of violence in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, for the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In 2011, Campbell participated in Basetrack, an experimental online media project tracking the deployment of the First Battalion, Eighth Marines in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. During her time there, Campbell reported for PRI's The World, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and currently, in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross, is preparing a series about Afghan health care. Campbell holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from New York University, and has worked as an editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit in New York and a staff writer at MacWeek in San Francisco.

Anjum Asharia, Assistant Producer

A native Texan, Anjum studied philosophy at Wellesley College, where she hosted a weekly radio show at the campus station, WZLY. She has previously worked with the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, and the Family Literacy Involvement Program at the Children's Museum of Houston.

Matthew Hockenberry, Technology consultant

Matthew Hockenberry is a technologist and scholar studying material culture. His work focuses on understanding web media, the history of logistics and modern environmental ideologies at New York University's Media, Culture, and Communication department. As a visiting scientist with the MIT Center for Civic Media he co-created Sourcemap, a collaborative platform for sharing "where things come from," and he currently serves as the director of Sourcemap Foundation.

Susan Bernofsky, Contributing Editor; Translations

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Writer, translator and scholar Susan Bernofsky, currently based in New York, considers Berlin her second home. Her lifelong fascination with German literature began when she first read the Grimms' fairy tales in the original as a high school student. She takes particular interest in the lines of influence linking eighteenth and nineteenth century German thought to modern and contemporary literature and theater in the German-speaking world and beyond. Her work on the intellectual history of translation connects current translation theory to ideas in Romantic philosophy, drawing on her own expertise as an acclaimed literary translator. Her writings on literature and culture are informed by her experience of living between two continents and cultures. She holds degrees from Princeton University (PhD, Comparative Literature) and Washington University (MFA, Fiction Writing), and has over a decade's teaching experience.

Alvin J. Báez, Contributing Producer; Latin America

Alvin J. Baez is an award-winning photographer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. For the past ten years he has worked as a staff member for daily newspaper El Vocero, and internationally he has focused on documenting marginalized communities and revealing exploitation by larger interests. Baez has developed multimedia pieces and photo essays on the effects of global warming on the indigenous communities of the Amazonian river basin, the life of communities in one of the most polluted places in the world, Old Fadama, Ghana, and a series of stories on the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. For his work, Baez has won numerous awards and honors by NGO's, journalism organizations, and the government of Puerto Rico, including the Overseas Press Club, the Puerto Rican Journalist's Association and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. His work has been published widely in national and international publications, and he has worked with international news agencies such as Getty Images and Agencia EFE. Most recently, he created VISO Photo, a photo news agency formed by a network of Latin American photographers portraying the issues that affect marginalized groups across the continent. Baez began his career after graduating with a bachelor's degree in Communications and History, having been recruited to cover the conflict between the U.S. Navy base in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and local residents.

Yasmine El Rashidi, Contributing Editor, Middle East

Yasmine El Rashidi is an independent journalist and producer. Her continuous coverage of the Egyptian revolution for the New York Review of Books was collected and published as an instant e-book by Random House as "The Battle for Egypt." She previously was a Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, and has been a contributor to the Washington Post, TIME, Aperture and Bidoun. She lives in Cairo.

Milton Allimadi, Contributing Editor

Milton Allimadi publishes The Black Star News, which focuses on news critical to African American readership as well as Africans on the continent and African immigrants in the U.S. He was born in Uganda and attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Loves local and international news, reading, writing, travelling, soccer, football, basketball, boxing and the beaches in the Bahamas.

Lara Santoro, Contributing Editor

Lara Santoro is an award-winning independent journalist and the author of the novel, Mercy. She spent ten years as a foreign news correspondent, based primarily in Rome and Nairobi working for Newsweek and The Christian Science Monitor. Her work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Boston Globe, The London Telegraph, The Times of London and The Sunday Times. She holds a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Smith College, a master's degree in French literature from the Sorbonne, and a master's in fine arts from New York University, where she was the recipient of the Developmental Fellowship, a biannual award.

Jessica Lustig, Contributing Editor

Jessica Lustig has worked since 1993 as an editor at publications including Time Out New York, New York Magazine, and Details. She has written features for New York, Fast Company, and the New York Times.

Connor Dickie, Technology consultant

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Connor Dickie is a scientist, artist, inventor and futurist who explores the edge of human-machine communication. He has developed a number of novel computing platforms that augment and share human memory and maximize attention. His interests lie in the creation and dissemination of modern mythologies that will inform and empower future generations. Connor was the Experience Director of the 2008 "Changing the World" youth innovation conference, Technical Director of the "10sec 1bayt" national poetry conference in Tajikistan, and is also the Creative Director of "kameraflage Inc.," a company he founded to commercialize a new type of patent-pending display technology that he invented specifically to address cyborg and camera culture. He is currently a Mozilla WebFWD Fellow.

Mike Edwards, Technology Consultant

Michael Edwards received his Masters of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School for Design and his BA in Anthropology from the University of Virginia. He is formerly research faculty at Parsons, charged with designing social networks and games in the educational and public interest. As an instructor at Parsons and Fordham Graduate School of Education, he has taught his students to bring new technical ideas into their creative and scientific practice. Over the past few years, he has collaborated with health care workers in Malawi designing interfaces to diagnose malnutrition in children, worked with teachers and curriculum designers to create gesture-based interactive games to teach math and science, and designed games for a range of partners including the Red Cross. He is now the IT Systems Designer in the Exhibitions Department of the American Museum of Natural History.

Shreeya Sinha, Contributing Producer

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Shreeya Sinha is an award-winning journalist and producer. She won Pictures of the Year International and was nominated for a Webby for ‘Undesired', a multimedia project featuring photojournalist Walter Astrada on violence against women in India. The project was MediaStorm's first investigative piece and was featured on MSNBC.com and at Visa Pour L'image, the international festival of photojournalism at Perpignan, France. In 2010, Shreeya won the national Foreign Press Association Award for her dedication to international journalism and received the highest honors at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism for her thesis, Ricocheting Bullets- a multimedia project on psychological trauma in gangsters and their effect on communities. She grew up in India, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Bangladesh and the foothills of the Himalayas. She received her master's degree with honors from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's in Politics and International Relations from Brandeis University.

Todd Gitlin

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Todd Gitlin is an award-winning writer, sociologist, communications scholar, novelist and poet. He is the author of twelve books that have been widely translated, including The Sixties and The Twilight of Common Dreams, both New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year. His work has been published in various periodicals and journals including Harper's, The Nation, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and many others. He was the third president of Students for a Democratic Society, in 1963-64, and coordinator of the SDS Peace Research and Education Project in 1964-65, during which time he helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War and the first American demonstrations against corporate aid to the apartheid regime in South Africa. He holds degrees from Harvard, University of Michigan, and UC Berkeley, and has taught at Yale, NYU, Berkeley, the University of Toronto and others. He is currently chair of the Ph.D. program in Communications at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Dale Maharidge

Dale Maharidge is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of nine books of non-fiction. He spent fifteen years as a newspaperman, for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Sacramento Bee. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, George Magazine, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New York Times and others. Most of his books are illustrated with the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Michael Williamson. The first book, "Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass,” inspired Bruce Springsteen to write The Ghost of Tom Joad and Youngstown; the book was reissued in 1996 with an introduction by Springsteen. His second book, "And Their Children After Them" won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1990. His new book is “Someplace Like America.” He is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting professor at Stanford University and is currently an associate professor of journalism at Columbia University.

Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras was nominated for an Academy Award®, an Independent Spirit Award and an Emmy for My Country, My Country (POV 2006). She received a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Emmy and an Independent Spirit Award for Flag Wars (POV 2003), made with Linda Goode Bryant. Poitras is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Media Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation/Tribeca Film Institute. She has attended the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab as both a fellow and creative advisor. She is currently working on the third part of a trilogy about America post 9/11. Before making documentaries, Poitras worked as a professional chef. She lives in New York City.

Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the New School for Public Engagement. His research, teaching and creative practice engages the critical role of technology, artistic interventions and DIY cultures among communities in contested spaces. Nitin previously taught at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) and conducted research at the MIT Media Lab on networked collaboration for sustainable product design, ubiquitous computing and responsive media in urban spaces. Nitin is affiliated with the MIT Center for Civic Media where he established the Department of Play, a research collaborative to design participatory media tools for marginalized youth. Since 2006 he has conducted research and digital storytelling initiatives with youth in the West Bank and Gaza. Nitin is currently completing a documentary film, Flying Paper, about the participatory culture of kite making among children in Gaza, with support from National Geographic.

Graeme R. Goldsworthy

Graeme R. Goldsworthy, a former officer in the British Army, is a recognized academic, consultant, and practitioner of International Relations, International Security, and Public Health. He has worked on various Humanitarian Mine Action NGOs, including MAG and the HALO Trust, coordinating and implementing landmine removal programs in South East Asia, Africa and Central America. Goldsworthy, with Co-Editor and Co-Principal of the IIPF/HTF, K.J. Wetherholt, is currently conducting research in LIC and asymmetric warfare, leading a multi-disciplinary team from Harvard University Medical School, Harvard's Disaster Medicine Section, its International Center for Disaster Resilience, and the VUMC on the socio-economic and psycho-social effects of SALW on affected populations. Goldsworthy is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, the University of Bradford, and Webster University (M.A.). Co-Principal of The International Information Policy Foundation and The Humanitas ThinkWorks Foundation, and Co-Executive editor of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Media and Information Policy (MIPJ), Goldsworthy, along with Wetherholt and Emmy-Award winning MediaStorm, is currently producing a series of documentaries for PBS on SALW and their effects on vulnerable populations in conflict.

K.J. Wetherholt

K.J. Wetherholt is Co-Founder/Principal of International Information Policy Foundation (formerly the Humanitas Thinkworks Foundation) and Executive Editor of the International Media and Information Policy Journal (MIPJ), having been former Board Chairman/Co-Founder of The Humanitarian Media Foundation (HMF) and Chief Consultant for the HMF Consultancy.Wetherholt is currently involved in Information Policy and Operations in Human Security, having been a former protégée of Joseph Kruzel (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs, creator of NATO program Partnership for Peace, diplomatic envoy killed in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995) whose concentrations included the Psychology of International Relations, International Security and Humanitarian Affairs, and Information Operations in International Politics. She was also a member of the working group among the principals of ThomsonReuters Foundation, BBC World Service Trust, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN Foundation, the British and American Red Cross, and Internews on the formulation of comprehensive, coordinated information dissemination protocols for human security and crisis and conflict-affected populations.Wetherholt is also the foremost proponent in formalizing a policy structure for media and information policy (MIP) in International Relations, inclusive of aggregation, analysis, and dissemination of information and coordination of humanitarian information operations in crisis and conflict.In addition to being an award-winning producer working on various documentary projects regarding the effects of conflict in the international sphere, she is also a contributor to various publications on media, information, and humanitarian affairs, having written a book on WWI, The Illumination, which will be coming out in 2012. She is also working on the book Critical Nexus: Media, Information, and Humanitarian Crisis.

Jim Brady

Jim Brady is a leading digital strategist for journalism and media companies. As executive editor of washingtonpost.com, he led the company to numerous awards and acoolades. He is currently leading Project Thunderdome for Journal Register Company, which will redefine how JRC produces journalism for the digital age. Before joining JRC, Brady served as general manager of TBD, a new local news operation dedicated to comprehensive coverage of Washington D.C. region that combines the values of traditional journalism and the power of citizen journalism. Brady also spent four years at America Online, serving as Group Programming Director, News & Sports; Executive Director, Editorial Operations; and Vice President, Production & Operations.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

Joshua Wolf Shenk's essays have appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, Time, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. His book Lincoln's Melancholy was named one of the best books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlanta-Journal Constitution. He has taught creative writing at NYU, the New School, and Washington College. He curates public programs and designs creative strategies for non-profits, universities, and foundations. His current project is a book for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on creativity and collaboration.