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I’m a Costa Rican investigative journalist with vast experience in cross-border collaborative projects with newsrooms in Latin America and the US. Until recently, I collaborated with the Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística (CLIP). Before that I worked as Data and Investigations editor for Univision Noticias in Miami. I was a fellow in the 2019 class of the John S. Knight fellowship at Stanford University, where I explored ideas to create a collaborative network of journalists to do more investigative reporting on immigration issues. Currently I'm an adjunct professor at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. My work has been recognized with numerous awards, including a national Emmy for outstanding feature story in Spanish, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the 2017 Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award from the Spanish daily El País, the 2015 Global Shining Light Award, after a five-month cross-border collaborative investigation on cigarette smuggling in South America.

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Mariah is an Emmy winning documentary filmmaker with a focus on wildlife and conservation whose work has taken her to six continents. She has produced content for PBS (Nature, History Detectives), Netflix (Human: The World Within) Discovery Channel (Hate in America), National Geographic (Lockdown, Doomsday Preppers), A&E (Intervention In-Depth), Al Jazeera (Close Up) Animal Planet, Amazon, History (Hidden Heroes), Weather Channel, MSNBC, VICE, Vocativ, Mic, Mongabay, Google, and The Smithsonian Institution. Mariah’s feature doc producing credits include Amazon Studios’ WILDCAT (2023 Emmy Award winner, Jackson Wild Finalist 2023, Sundance Doc Fund, Telluride Film Fest, AFI, IDFA, National Board of Review Top 5 Documentaries of 2022), MADINA’S DREAM (SXSW, Telluride Mountainfilm), END OF THE LINE (DOC NYC), and MARY JANES (Woodstock, Mill Valley). Her 2019 feature documentary SILENT FORESTS is about the fight to save forest elephants from ivory trafficking in Africa’s Congo Basin. It screened at Santa Barbara, Big Sky (Finalist – Feature Competition), Brooklyn Film Festival (Spirit Award), Jackson Wild WWD (Winner – Stories of Hope) and is a One World Media Award Winner. Mariah is passionate about illuminating the myriad intersections between humans and animals, and celebrating those dedicated to protecting wildlife. She is a proud Jackson Wild Summit Fellow (2021) and Explorer’s Club Fellow.

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Eunice is a producer/director based in New York City, and a recipient of Tribeca Film Institute’s All-Access Grant, Chicken & Egg Pictures Accelerator Lab Grant, and ITVS Diversity Development Fund. Given her background as a former broadcast producer, Eunice Lau has a propensity toward telling stories concerning social justice. Her short film "Through the Fire" was a finalist at the 2013 Student Academy Awards, while her feature "A-Town Boyz” which chronicles the struggle of Asian American youth growing up in America's South received the Spike Lee Fellowship. With her training in narrative filmmaking, she seeks to bring a cinematic form to documentary films to evoke visceral emotions in audience. "Accept the Call" is a continuum of her exploration on the definition of the American identity and capturing the journey of the immigrant. She is a Storyhunter since 2016, working for clients such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Amanda Florian is an American director, journalist, and entertainer based between the U.S. and Shanghai, China. She grew up in the entertainment industry, training in classical Italian at the age of eight--and in musical theater and pop shortly thereafter. As a young girl, she'd frequently travel to New York City to train in theater, dance, and voice. Florian, alongside her triplet sisters, has performed on NBC, at The Billy Graham Library, and at Seacrest Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina. For 10 years, she and her sisters volunteered to sing at the Festa Italiana, an annual festival in Charlotte that raises money for those with special needs. Her first documentary film was a 23-minute short on homelessness in Johnson City, Tennessee. And in 2017, Florian devoted a year to traveling and documenting people, venturing all over the continent of Asia. Since then, she has worked on a variety of music videos, scripts, and other creative works.

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Anna Louie Sussman is a writer and editor based in New York, with extensive experience reporting on gender, economics, and arts and culture. She has been the senior writer and editor of Newsweek/The Daily Beast’s Women in the World Foundation, and reported extensively on finance and the economy, covering the shipping and energy industries for Reuters, and economics and the labor market for The Wall Street Journal. Somewhere in between, she researched and helped write “Fast Forward,” a book on how to advance women and girls in the global economy, with a foreword by Hillary Clinton. She currently covers gender, inequality, reproduction, and the business of art. She has interviewed Thomas Piketty about income inequality, heard a Yemeni imam justify contraceptive use with Quranic citations, and gotten Jeff Koons to explain why artists should embrace the market. She has reported from over a dozen countries in the Middle East, South America, Europe, and North America. She lived and worked for five years in the Middle East, logging time in Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Damascus, Tunis, Rabat, and Sana’a. She was born and raised in New York, and recently became a lukewarm Knicks fan again.

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Trae Bodge is an accomplished lifestyle journalist and TV commentator who specializes in smart shopping, personal finance, beauty, toys, parenting and retail. In addition to monthly “Best Buys” segments on CBS2 NY, Fox 5 NY and ABC/WJLA in DC, she has appeared on dozens of TV shows, including Rachael Ray, Inside Edition, CNBC and network affiliates nationwide. Trae has been named a Top Voice in Retail by LinkedIn and a top personal finance expert by GoBankingRates and FlexJobs. She is a contributing editor at Woman’s Day magazine and her writing and expert commentary have appeared in Forbes, USNews.com, Kiplinger, Marketwatch, MSN Money, Yahoo Finance and numerous others. Trae has been featured as a beauty tastemaker in Elle, InStyle and Essence and has served as a judge on panels for Redbook, Parents and The Handbag Awards. She is also co-founder of the cult cosmetic brand Three Custom Color Specialists.​ Trae loves delicious food, vintage clothing, beautiful art, rocking music, and new places. She spends her free time with her 13-year old daughter, Sadie Mae, her husband, Chris, their guinea pig, Chewy, and family and friends.

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I’m a multimedia journalist born in Cuba, currently based in New York City. I moved to the U.S. in 2016 to pursue a Master's degree in Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, as part of the inaugural class of the Spanish-Language Concentration. I’ve previously worked as a reporter in Havana, Cuba, and covered several events that shape the new relations between Cuba and the United States. I reported on President Obama’s visit, the reopening of the American embassy in Havana and the Rolling Stones' concert, among other events. While at CUNY, my work is especially focused on minority groups, immigrants, and the role of religion among this diverse Latino communities in New York City. I discovered the story of a Lutheran priest who has adopted 27 minors in an attempt to save them from deportation. I have also travelled to Israel and the West Bank on a reporting trip during June of 2017. In the summer of 2017, I settled in California to intern with Emblematic Group, a Virtual, augmented and mixed Realities production company based in Los Angeles.

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Kristen Bateman is an author, writer, editor and creative consultant. She is the author of The Little Book of New York Style. Order it here! Her other 2024 forthcoming books include: The Met Gala Lookbook, Interior Style: Maximalist, The Little Book of Tom Ford, and Icons of Style: Zendaya. She specializes in writing features for print and digital publications including: Vogue, W Magazine, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Dazed, Town & Country, The New York Times Style Section, T magazine, The Cut, CNN Style, Architectural Digest, and many, many more. She also writes the shopping newsletter Doll Dealbook, runs the jewelry brand Dollchunk and occasionally writes on her own independent website on beauty, fashion and culture, called Sudden Chic. On the consulting side, she has worked with brands, agencies and individuals leading content marketing, copywriting, social strategy, creative direction and much more.

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Majid Mohammadi is a freelance writer and researcher of Iranian politics and society. He served as an associate professor at Glenville State College, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, and an International Policy Fellow at the Open Society Institute. His projects at Princeton and OSI focused on Shi`i Islamism in post-Revolutionary Iran and judicial reform in Egypt and Turkey respectively. In 2005 he became a fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Prior to moving to the U.S. in 2000, he worked in workshops to draft legislation and policies in the area of media and culture in Iran. These policies were to improve the rule of law, free flow of information, and vindication of human, civil, and constitutional rights in Iran. He received his education from Shiraz University (BS in Electrical Engineering), Tehran University (MA in Philosophy), and Stony Brook University (PhD in Sociology).

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I am a multilingual journalist with over three decades of experience. I write in Sindhi, Urdu, English and Punjabi languages. I worked previously as a correspondent for BBC Urdu for 10 years based in New York City. I worked as a reporter, columnist, and their first ever blogger. I have also written regular blogs for Deutsche Welle Urdu. I have been a columnist in Pakistan's largest circulated Urdu daily 'Jang' newspaper. I worked as senior reporter for English monthly Newsline in Karachi, Pakistan for 10 years. I have also worked as a reporter for English dailies 'The Muslim' Islamabad, and 'Frontier Post.' My columns and articles have also frequently appeared in the 'News On Sunday,' 'Thursday Review of the Dawn,' 'Daily 'Times', Lahore, 'Himal Magazine South Asian , Kathmandu, Nepal. My ground breaking works on LGBTQI and sex workers in South Asia are included in two books; 'Islamic Homo sexualities Culture, History and Literature' published by New York University Press,1997, and "Fallen Angles: Sex Workers in South Asia" Published by Rolli Publisher, Delhi 2001. I have been editor for "Sindhi daily 'Qhalq' and a correspondent and columnist for "Sindhi daily 'Barsat' in Islamabad". I also worked for numerous other Sindhi newspapers such as 'Kawish', 'Pehnji Akhbar', and 'Ibrat.' I have been a regular writer for Punjabi language Website wichar.com. My other published work includes English translations of 18th century Sindhi poet, Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai in book form titled 'Catching a Glimpse of Beloved' published in 2015. I have written a book of my Sindhi poetry titled "Guldan Ja Qaidi Gulab". I have also published two books of my Urdu and Punjabi poetry. My forthcoming book is a collection of my BBC Urdu columns (2003-2014) entitled "Phir Wohi Train". I am also a recipient of the Excellence in International journalism Award from Johns Hopkins university. Other awards include All Pakistan newspaper society (APNS), and Kodikara award from Regional center for strategic studies in Sri Lanka. I am also a recipient of fellowships such as Hellman/Hammett grants from Human Rights Watch, Europeans Union, SIDA Norway, and PANOS South Asia awards. Currently, I work as a freelance writer for 'Naya Duar Urdu', 'The Friday Times' and "Dissent Today.' Human interest Stories and the concerning human rights have been my forte throughout my career. I am also renowned in South Asian literary circles as a multilingual poet and writer. In addition; I have written Urdu and Punjabi songs/lyrics for Pakistani Urdu films and numerous plays including a BBC Urdu radio play. I also worked as researcher in documentaries for BBC Urdu and for scholars on South Asia. I worked as translator for a documentary aired on PBS.

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After graduating from Oberlin College and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (MPA 1975), Les co-founded the Labor Institute (1976), a non-profit organization that designs research and educational programs on occupational safety and health, the environment and economics for unions, worker centers and community organizations. In addition to his current book, Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice (Labor Institute Press, 2015), he is the author of How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour (John Wiley and Sons, 2013); The Looting of America, (Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2009); The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi, (Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2006). The Mazzocchi story won the Independent Publisher Award for best biography. He is currently helping to build a national economic educational train-the-trainer program with unions and community groups. All proceeds from his current book go back into this campaign.

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D'Shonda Brown currently serves as the Associate Editor of ESSENCE's Girls United. As a Brooklyn native and Spelman College alumna with a BA in English, D'Shonda has a deep-rooted appreciation for Black women, culture, hip-hop and style. A suicide attempt survivor, rape survivor and mental health advocate, D'Shonda's mission is to be a voice for the voiceless, have tough conversations through her writing and destigmatize negative connotations through her work. Before graduating from the number one HBCU with a BA in English, D'Shonda had internships at Johnson & Johnson, Adult Swim, and ABC 7 News - WJLA. Once realizing her passion lied in the realm of journalism and storytelling, she was a respected multimedia freelance culture journalist who has bylines in Forbes, HYPEBAE, HighSnobiety, REVOLT, HelloBeautiful, Coveteur, Shape, Health, and more. Over the years, D'Shonda has interviewed notable influencers, celebrities, and public figures including Gabrielle Union, Chloe x Halle, Desus & Mero, Tinashe, Kelly Rowland, Tracee Ellis Ross, Migos, T-Pain, Issa Rae, and Big Sean.

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Maia Szalavitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, which was recognized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse with its 2018 Media Award. Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids was the first to expose the damage caused by the “tough love” business that dominates adolescent addiction treatment. She has written for numerous publications from High Times to the New York Times, including TIME, the Washington Post, the Guardian, VICE, Scientific American, and the Atlantic— and she is author or co-author of five other books. With Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, she co-wrote the classic work on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and also Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential— And Endangered. She has won awards from the Drug Policy Alliance, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology for her 30 years of groundbreaking writing on addiction, drug policy and neuroscience.

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MD ARIFUL ISLAM Sterling, VA   *   Email: x   * Phone: x   CAREER OBJECTIVE: Seeking a challenging position in creative industries (specially as as an camera person /DOP /visualizer and reporter /broadcaster /producer )as I can learn and add some value.   PROFILE: With over 10 years of experience, of which 10 of those years were gained both domestic and overseas,  I have the availability to work as a team member of any production team & I am well acquainted with the camera & Direction team in every desired sector mentioned below.   EXPERIENCE Fairfax public access completed course on Studio camera & outdoor camera Worked as an volunteer camera person with FPA (Fairfax public Access ) production team . Team member /Producer /Broadcaster NRB Connect.TV(A Bangla community television from USA from (2016 -2020) Founder Walk to serenity A startup organization on mental health support (producer tv program-“mental health matters “   * THE PAGES FASHION MAGAZINE,  Dhaka, Bangladesh Executive Editor......................................................................................January 2015-2016   * ASIAN TELEVISION, Dhaka, Bangladesh Chief Operating Officer ...........................................................................January 2014-2016   * GB TELEVISION, Dhaka, Bangladesh Head of Business Development................................................................January 2013 -2014   * ATN EVENTS, Dhaka, Bangladesh Senior Producer (Events and activation).................................................January 2012-2013   * OMZ COMMUNICATION, Dhaka, Bangladesh Project Manager........................................................................................January 2011-2012   * STV US, Dhaka, Bangladesh Free lance Producer (program, Marketing and events)...........................January 2008-2009   * TELEPRESS LTD, Dhaka, Bangladesh Senior Manager (Customer services and events).................................January 2007-2008   * DE COORDINATOR LTD, Dhaka, Bangladesh Creative Planner (admin, customer care and events).........................  January 2006-2007      EDUCATION * Ispahani Public School and College, Chittagong, Bangladesh Secondary School Certificate (Humanities/Arts) 2001   * Govt. commerce College, Chittagong , Bangladesh Higher Secondary Education (Business Studies) 2003   * Darul Ehsan university, Dhaka, Bangladesh Bachelor's (English) 2011     SKILLS * Actively Volunteered United Nations71st General Assembly 2016 * A Red Cross Crescent Volunteer since 2001 * Well acquainted with Red Crescent and First aid training * Senior Patrol leader at Ispahani public school Scout team 1999 * Achieved Chartered President of Leo Club International Dist 315 B-4           References available upon request. Employment Eligibility: Authorized to work in the US for any employee.(permanent resident)

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Ryan Christopher Jones is Mexican-American photojournalist and anthropologist originally from Central California, currently living in Cambridge, MA. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, ProPublica and The Washington Post, and often works on stories of labor, environment and migration across the United States and Mexico. Two of his 2021 collaborations with the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism examined the nebulous politics of water in California’s Central Valley. Other recent work also includes in-depth reporting during the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City and Boston, the overdose crisis, NYC housing crisis, and economic mobility. He has written about the ethics of photojournalism in two 2018 op-eds for The New York Times, “How Photography Exploits the Vulnerable” and “The Deja Vu of Mass Shootings.” In 2022-23 he was a judge for the Pulitzer Prizes and was also awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for his coverage on under-reported communities across the U.S. He is currently a PhD student in Social Anthropology at Harvard University, where he will continue to study the political ecology of water, space and power in California, with a focus on the ways that Latinx and farmworker communities are responding to climate devastation across the Western United States.

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Gabriella A. Moses is an award-winning director, writer, and production designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her latest short films Sticky Fingers and Leche are currently playing the festival circuit. Her award-winning thesis film Las Mañanitas has played at numerous international film festivals winning Best Ensemble Cast, Production Design and Score at NYU's First Run Film Festival and Best Film at the Katra Film Fest Series. Her production design work has been featured across top film festivals across the globe including Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca and SXSW. Her clients include VOGUE, Estée Lauder, Instagram, Google, Casper, Target, Walmart, Keystone, Bombas and Capsule Pharmacy to name a few. Gabriella was selected by the Hispanic Coalition of NY as one of their 2015 Rising Latino Stars. She also served as a Shadow Director for the 2015 ABC Diversity Showcase. Gabriella is currently developing her directorial debut feature, Leche, which has received support from 2016 Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Lab, the 2017 NYWIFT "From Script to Pre-Production" Workshop, 2018 Sundance Screenwriter's Intensive, 2018 Tribeca Film Institute All Access Lab and 2018 . Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund program. She most recently was a TFI x Chanel Through Her Lens Fellow. Principal photography on Leche is scheduled for summer 2021. She believes in sharing stories with underrepresented protagonists that test viewer’s perceptions of identity and their imaginations.

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I believe that indigenous people, stories and ideas can contribute to understanding and solving the world's biggest and most pressing challenges. This belief inspires my writing and gives strength to my voice. My work has appeared in The Guardian, Jacobin Magazine, Huffington Post, Salon, Fusion, Indian Country Today and other publications. I was awarded High Country News’ 2017 Diverse Western Voices Award and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Indigenous Fellowship. I grew up in a single-mother household in Oakland California, and am a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and a descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude with History Departmental Honors from Columbia University and received a Clarendon Scholarship to read for a master's in Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford, where I graduated from Somerville College in 2016.

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Asli Pelit, a dynamic storyteller who covered sports deals for Sportico and created impactful visual stories for USA Today and VICE on HBO, now hosts La Previa, a Spanish-language sports business podcast. Before moving to the U.S. to (un)cover the business of global football, she spent a decade in South America producing and anchoring "THE CONTINENT of 10s," a weekly documentary series on soccer, business, politics, and culture that ran for five seasons (65 episodes). Asli has reported from five Copa Americas, three World Cups, and countless soccer matches across Europe, South, and North America. Fluent in five languages, she's a true polyglot with a global perspective. She earned a B.A. in Journalism from NYU, M.A. in Latin American Studies from University Havana and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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I am a documentary filmmaker currently based in Brooklyn, New York. I have been a freelance filmmaker here for the last 9 years, though last year I lived in Uganda and have spent significant amount of time abroad in other places as well. My education and background is primarily in documentary filmmaking, but I worked in all phases of production on content for HBO, PBS, Comedy Central,&Sundance Channel. I direct, shoot, record sound, and edit, and have my own equipment. I love seeing new places, talking to strangers,and finding small stories that represent much bigger ideas. I am exploring the idea of success and what that means to different cultures around the world and how they go about achieving that. Im also interested in creating stories that inspire others to emulate good ideas.

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I am a filmmaker and photographer with ten years of experience in short film production, promotional video work, documentary production, event photography, interviewing, and script writing. I am the founder and President of EHFAR Films, which I established in March of 2013. My experience as a videographer and photographer has granted me the opportunity to travel and film internationally, specifically across Italy, Turkey, England, and Rwanda. My team (ft. Award-winning DP Marina King and Director Laura Martinelli) has partnered with The Hewlett Foundation, Big Picture Learning, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), Southern New Hampshire University, The Met, The Adventures of Mr. Clown, Paul Mitchell of N. New England, YMCA, MassChallenge, WEI and has shot a combined 40 short films.

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