Rosebell Kagumire is a Ugandan freelance multimedia journalist, award-winning blogger and communications expert with a specialization in new media, and conflict and development issues. She has worked with Oxfam and writes for Global Voices.
Dionne Bunsha is an award-winning journalist from Mumbai, India. She has written extensively on a diverse range of human rights, social justice, and environmental issues. She is the author of, Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat (Penguin India, 2006) about the aftermath of religious violence in Gujarat, India.
Farah’s work is known for its quiet intimacy. Her long-term projects have focused primarily on the war’s impact on Iraqis, and the last speakers of highly threatened languages. The award-winning photographer has worked on assignment in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, the West Bank, Gaza, and Egypt. Her work appeared in leading international publications including The New York Times and TIME. Nosh appeared on CNN’s Inside the Middle East segment entitled “Someone You Should Know,” which features personalities making an impact in the region. She currently lives in Vancouver with her family.
David Paperny is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver. He has directed a dozen documentary features focused on social issues and extraordinary individuals, and received the City of Vancouver Arts Award. In 2014 he was chosen Producer of the Year by Playback Magazine.
Kevin Patterson is a novelist and journalist from British Columbia, Canada. He has won the Roger Writers’ Trust prize for fiction and has written about war, tuberculosis, escapism, and acculturation. He also practices medicine in Nunavut on the west coast of Hudson Bay and in the ICU in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. He has sailed across the Pacific Ocean in a concrete boat a few times.
Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada’s most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of over sixty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Tate Modern in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.
Gary Knight is an award-winning photojournalist who has covered the civil war in Yugoslavia, the war in Iraq, Israel/Palestine, North Korea, the invasion of Afghanistan, the civil war in Kashmir and the Asian Tsunami. He is the founder of the photo agency VII, which represents some of the world’s top photojournalists.
Melissa Chan is a national and foreign affairs reporter. She was a broadcast correspondent for Al Jazeera America and Al Jazeera English, where she served as China correspondent for five years before her expulsion from the country in 2012 for the channel’s reports. She has also reported from Cuba, Canada, South Korea, North Korea, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Mongolia, Moscow, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Gaza. She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Egyptian-Canadian award-winning journalist and author. Worked for CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera and entered Iraq in 2003 on the first day of the invasion to cover the war for the Los Angeles Times. In 2007 he joined the protection team of the ICRC in Lebanon, protecting the rights of political prisoners, refugees and the missing. In 2011, he was honored with a Peabody Award along with the CNN team for the coverage of the Arab Spring. In 2013 he accepted a post as the Al Jazeera English Egypt bureau chief. In 2013 Fahmy was arrested alongside two colleagues and accused of conspiring with a terrorist group and fabricating news. He was pardoned in September 2015 and took a job as the Global Reporting Centre’s Journalist in Residence. He has co-authored a book titled the Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom
Deborah Campbell is the author of the nonfiction books This Heated Place and A Disappearance in Damascus. She has reported from Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, the UAE, Qatar, Israel, Palestine, Cuba, Mexico, and Russia. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, New Scientist, The Walrus, and other publications. She has won three National Magazine Awards for her foreign correspondence and has guest lectured at Harvard, Berkeley, and Zayed University in Dubai. She currently teaches at the University of British Columbia.
Sandra Bartlett is an award winning freelance reporter and producer based in Toronto. She has worked for CBC Radio where she travelled extensively on assignment; and for NPR’s Investigative Unit in Washington where she collaborated on projects with PBS Frontline, ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist based in London, England, where she photographs for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time. Addario has shot features across the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tara Sutton is a filmmaker and war correspondent, who has reported in conflict zones around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, Colombia, and Liberia. She has received numerous awards, including the Amnesty International Award for Television News for her un-embedded coverage of the battle of Fallujah.
Veronique de Viguerie is a Combat Photojournalist, and has covered an Afghan guerrilla group responsible for the Uzbin Valley ambush, pirates in Somalia, and Taliban militants. She has been awarded the Best War Photo Reportage award, a World Press Photo award, and the Canon Prize for Female Photojournalist.
Andrew Revkin is the founder of The New York Times’ influential Dot Earth blog, where he writes about the global environment, climate change and natural disasters. He is now a senior fellow at the Pace University Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. He is a senior reporter at ProPublica.
Editor. Kim Frank began working as a video editor in 2004, after a long career as a contemporary dancer and choreographer. She edited the Emmy Award winning documentary Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground for PBS Frontline World, and the Emmy nominated In a Small Town for PBS Exposé. Other credits include documentaries for the Discovery Channel, PBS and Omni and news pieces for CNBC, Business Nation, and Dan Rather Reports.
Dorothée Myriam Kellou is an award-winning French journalist and filmmaker based in Paris. Her three-part series on the French company Lafarge’s deal with ISIS militants in Syria was awarded the TRACE International Prize for Investigative Reporting. She is currently developing “Algeria, Out of Place”, a documentary about forced resettlement during the Algerian War of Independence.
Ed Ou is an award-winning photojournalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. He has worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, and The New York Times. Since 2006 Ou has covered the war between Israel and Hezbollah, the fall of the Islamic Courts in Mogadishu, Somalia and a range of other stories in the Middle East.
Janet Tobias is an Emmy award-winning director/producer with 20 years experience working in television for all three American networks, PBS, Discovery, and MSNBC. She is also an adjunct assistant professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the Department of Population Science and Policy.
Martha Mendoza is a Pulitzer prize-winning writer at the Associated Press. She is based in Silicon Valley where she provides breaking news, enterprise and investigative reporting. Mendoza focused on human trafficking in 2015, cybersecurity in 2014 and covered Latin America from 2010 to 2013. Mendoza was a 2001 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a 2007 Ferris Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She also teaches in the graduate University of California, Santa Cruz Science Communications Program and is a senior fellow at the Institute for Justice and Journalism.
Wade Davis is Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 1999 and 2013 he served as Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and is currently a member of the NGS Explorers Council and Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”
An ethnographer, writer, photographer and filmmaker, Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986), an international best seller later released by Universal as a motion picture. In recent years his work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mongolia and the high Arctic of Nunuvut and Greenland.
Davis is the author of 265 scientific and popular articles and 19 books including One River (1996), The Wayfinders (2009), The Sacred Headwaters (2011), Into the Silence (2011) and River Notes (2012). His photographs have been widely exhibited and have appeared in 30 books and 100 magazines, including National Geographic, Time, Geo, People, Men’s Journal, and Outside. He was the co-curator of The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes, first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and currently touring Latin America. In 2012 he served as guest curator of No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in the Modern World, an exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.
His many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the National Geographic. A professional speaker for 30 years, Davis has lectured at over 200 universities and 250 corporations and professional associations. In 2009 he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures. He has spoken from the main stage at TED five times, and his three posted talks have been viewed by 3 million. His books have appeared in 19 languages and sold approximately one million copies.
Davis is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees, as well as the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society for his contributions to anthropology and conservation, the 2011 Explorers Medal, the highest award of the Explorers Club, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration, the 2013 Ness Medal for geography education from the Royal Geographical Society, and the 2015 Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. His recent book, Into the Silence, received the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top award for literary nonfiction in the English language. In 2016 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Ali Mustafa is correspondent with TRT World, the Turkish public broadcaster’s English news network. Ali has previously reported for Al Jazeera English, CBC/Radio-Canada and VICE News. He has covered politics, security and society in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and North America since 2004.
Salimah Ebrahim is a print, broadcast and photojournalist who has reported on the war in Iraq, numerous G8 and G20 summits, the White House and environmental security challenges in Africa. She worked on assignment for Reuters, CBC Television, the Globe and Mail, the Cairo Times and A&E’s Biography Channel.
Mary Kay Magistad, an award-winner journalist and podcaster who often focuses on undercovered long-term trends and social justice issues, lived and reported in East Asia and beyond for more than two decades, first in Southeast Asia for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NPR, CBC and others, then in China, opening NPR’s Beijng bureau and returning for PRI/BBC’s The World. Her podcast, “Whose Century Is It?,” a 2017 Webby Awards honoree, looks at ideas, trends and twists shaping the 21st century.
Joel Bakan is a filmmaker, author, and professor at the UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law. Joel’s 2004 book The Corporation has won widespread acclaim, with its film adaptation earning 25 international awards. He is currently working on the book’s sequel while sitting as a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre in Italy.
Walt Bogdanich is an investigative journalist for the New York Times. He has won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work, the most recent being his “Toxic Pipleline” feature on tainted Chinese imports. He is currently teaching at the Columbia School of Journalism as an adjunct faculty member.
Jennifer Yang is an award-winning journalist with the Toronto Star, where she currently writes about identity and inequality. Previously, Jennifer covered the global health beat for four years, writing from Bhutan, Iceland, Japan, Geneva, Malawi and Sierra Leone, where she was the first Canadian journalist to cover the 2014 Ebola outbreak from West Africa. Jennifer is a two-time UN Foundation press fellow and won a National Newspaper Award for her explanatory feature on the 2010 Chilean mining disaster.
Gary Marcuse is a journalist and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. He has written and directed several films about the emergence of environmental movements around the world. He is a former programming executive for CBC Television in Vancouver and a former chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada.
Jimmy Thomson is a journalist based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. He has been published in CBC, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, National Geographic, VICE, and others, while working in every Arctic country in the world. He has been a recipient of awards from the SPJ, RTDNA, CAJ, and two federal governments.
Olívia Zauli Fellows is a project manager at the Global Reporting Centre. She is a graduate of the UBC School of Journalism and former fellow of the International Reporting Program. Olivia has published pieces in The Globe and Mail and The Tyee, Discovery Channel Canada and currently works as a video producer.
Alberto is an award winning journalist and filmmaker based in Vancouver; he focuses on natural sciences, sustainability and social justice. He is a firm supporter of media and knowledge co-production, promoter of information democratization by offering multimedia projects showcasing a diversity of voices, intersectional content and contextual facts to audiences of different backgrounds. His journalist work on rare diseases in Canada bestowed him with the Edward Murrow and the Jack Webster awards as the team leader of a collaborative team of journalists, academics, physicians, researchers, patients and their families.
Garrett Hinchey is an award-winning multimedia journalist specializing in digital projects and working for CBC North in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. His work has appeared in CBC.ca, the Globe and Mail, ESPN, and Up Here Magazine. A born and raised Yellowknifer and member of the North Slave Metis Alliance, Hinchey won the Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarship in 2014 and was a finalist for the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Innovation Award in 2016 for his work connecting remote communities in the lead up to the Northwest Territories election.
Executive Director and Founder. In 2009, Peter Klein led a team of students on a global investigation about electronic waste, which won the Emmy for Best Investigative Journalism. Peter is a longtime producer with CBS News 60 Minutes, and has produced projects for many of the major American news programs, including Frontline, Nightline, 20/20 and 48 Hours. He has written for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and other newspapers.
Deputy Director. Britney Dennison is a former fellow of the International Reporting Program. She specializes in mental health reporting and international journalism. Her work has won numerous awards, including several Edward R. Murrow awards. Her work has appeared in the Toronto Star, the Tyee, CTV and Al Jazeera.
Managing Director. Twenty-two years of project management experience on dozens of television productions across a number of genres, including documentaries, current affairs, docudramas, reality series and independent features for both Canadian and US broadcasters. Several productions have been award-winning ones. Through the varied roles of producer, writer/director, production manager, and post-production supervisor on a broad span of programs, I have a comprehensive range of creative, financial and business affairs skills.
Financial and Operations Assistant. Julie Sagram has a B.A. in International Relations and dedicates herself to making things run smoothly at the GRC with the hope of facilitating the growth of solutions-oriented journalism on global issues. Previously, she worked for the Canadian Red Cross with their Global Relations and Humanitarian Diplomacy department and has written and published on topics related to security and human rights.
Senior Research Fellow. Jane Lister is a research professor in business and politics at the University of British Columbia. She has over 15 years of applied experience working to improve business environmental practices, and currently explores questions of who wins and who loses along global retail supply chains. She is the author of several books and articles on corporate sustainability governance including Eco-business: A Big-brand Takeover of Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility and the State, and Timber.
Producer. Kathryn Gretsinger’s career in journalism began in the late 80s when she joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Canada’s public broadcaster. Kathryn is committed to public service journalism and works across platforms, but her first love is audio. Her documentaries, programs and interviews have been recognized locally and nationally.
Research Manager. Shayna Plaut is interested in how people represent themselves in their own media, with a particular interest in peoples who do not fit neatly within the traditional notions of the nation-state. As a Fulbright and Vanier scholar, she has lived and worked in Hungary and the Balkans. She served as the Simons Research Fellow from 2015–2016 at Simon Fraser University. She is currently teaching courses on migration as well as social inequalities at the University of British Columbia and is the co-investigator for a CMRC-funded research project critically examining the use of “fixers” in international journalism.
Web Producer. Chantelle Bellrichard is a multimedia journalist who splits her time between the CBC Vancouver newsroom and the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. She works in radio and television at CBC, as a web editor at the journalism school and has published print stories in the Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun and The Tyee. Chantelle graduated from the UBC journalism school in 2012. In 2014 she was the first recipient of the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Aboriginal Journalism Fellowship.
Public Relations Coordinator. Lucy-Claire Saunders’ corporate and nonprofit clients typically face complex challenges in such areas as environmental resources, climate change adaptation and clean energy. As a former wire correspondent, Lucy-Claire covered the United Nations and New York City.
Research Manager. Maya Lefkowich is a social science researcher and a PhD student at the University of British Columbia. Maya’s research expertise include: masculinities, community development and partnership, global health, and knowledge translation/exchange. Maya has published articles on masculinities, body image, mental health, and community-based health initiatives. Maya holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Arts degree from York University, and a certificate in Non-Profit Management from Schulich School of Business.
Intern. Logan Turner is a current student in the School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia. He also has a degree in Political Sciences from the University of Ottawa and one in Global Health from McMaster University. Interested in all things related to health, Logan is currently working towards improving his multimedia journalistic skills.
Intern. Elana is a writer based in Vancouver, B.C., on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. Previously, she has interned with the U.S. Department of State and the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. A Bachelor’s candidate in International Relations and Creative Writing, she is passionate about bringing an intersectional lens to her work.
Intern. Cinar has worked as an Istanbul-based journalist since 2008, reporting on Turkey for a variety of local and international outlets including the Associated Press and Xinhua News Agency. His freelance material has appeared in the Atlantic, Slate and BBC Radio 4. He specializes in politics and international relations, though his reporting has covered a wide range of topics from finance to sports and culture. He is currently pursuing graduate studies in journalism at the University of British Columbia.
Research Assistant. Sharon Nadeem is a Vancouver-based multimedia journalist, interested in global reporting and international affairs. Originally from India, Sharon was brought up in the Middle East, where she developed a fascination for intercultural interaction. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and has worked to combine her skills in programming with her love for storytelling, during her Masters in Journalism at the University of British Columbia. She’s reported on migration, environment and Indigenous issues for the Globe and Mail, BBC, CBC Indigenous, Huffington Post, Yukon News, and Jakarta Post. When she isn’t reporting, she’s either eating or planning her next trip.
Leonard Brody is an award- winning entrepreneur, venture capitalist, bestselling author and a two-time Emmy nominated media visionary. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history, and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date.
Yuen Ying Chan is the founding director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Chan has also spent 23 years working as a journalist in New York, and is the recipient of the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, and won the International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Jon Festinger, Q.C. (LL.B., B.C.L. 1980 (McGill University)) is a Vancouver, British Columbia based counsel and educator. Jon has taught media, communications, intellectual property, and corporate law topics at UBC’s Allard School of Law, for more than two decades, as well as occasionally teaching at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. In addition Jon is a Professor of Professional Practice at Simon Fraser University, a faculty member at the Centre for Digital Media, and Honorary Industry Professor in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.
Reporter, CBC News and is host of Cross Country Checkup on CBC Radio. Has been a reporter for CBC News in Vancouver for over 15 years. His news and current affairs pieces are featured on CBC’s flagship news show, The National. Duncan is also teaches, “Reporting in Indigenous Communities” at UBC’s School of Journalism.
Scott McIntyre is the co-founder, and recently retired Publisher and CEO of the Canadian book-publishing house Douglas & Mcintyre. His career has also embraced more than 40 years of government relations, industry association work, and membership on a variety of cultural and social boards. Scott holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from SFU, and is a member of the Order of Canada. His contributions to Canadian publishing have been recognized by a Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal in 2002, and her Diamond Jubilee medal in 2012.
Tamara Pearl is a therapist, expressive arts therapist, facilitator of cross-cultural dialogue, and an adjunct instructor at Adler University. She has served as Vice President of the Daniel Pearl Foundation since its formation in 2002. She was honored to be Community Engagement Lead at Reconciliation Canada. She also served as a Director on the board of Peace it Together, which brings together Israeli and Palestinian youth to dialogue and make films together.
Sirish Rao is a writer, festival producer and publishing professional with deep connections to the international literary and publishing world. Sirish is the founding Artistic Director of Vancouver’s annual Indian Summer Festival. He has authored twenty books, from commentaries on popular culture to children’s books and retellings of Greek plays. His books have been translated into seventeen languages and won several international awards.
Farid Rohani is a businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a champion for multicultural understanding and human rights. He was a founding member and is the immediate past Chair of the Laurier Institution. Rohani has served on the Royal Canadian Mountain Police (E-Division) Commanding Officers Diversity Advisory Committee, the Scouts Canada British Columbia Diversity Committee, on the Steering Committee of the Vancouver Dialogues Project and on the Lower Mainland Campaign Cabinet of Vancouver Island University. Rohani also publishes widely on immigration, multiculturalism, diversity and ethics. He now manages his family’s Vancouver-based development and real estate holding company.
Former journalist for Reuters, The Industry Standard, former bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires, and former editor-in-chief of The Turkish Times. Schiffrin is on the advisory board of the Open Society Foundation’s Program on Independent Journalism and of Revenue Watch Institute. Her most recent book is “Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World” (New Press 2014).
Founder of the International Center for Dialogue and Education (ICDE). Global social entrepreneur, strategic communications consultant and investigative reporter. He has written for some of Brazil’s largest newspapers and networks and received protection in North America after exposing corruption in the country.
Gabriella Stern has been Director, Media and External Relations, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, since January 2016. She is based in Seattle. Previously, Gabby was a deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she spent nearly 25 years, with stints in Europe and Asia in addition to the U.S. Before joining the Journal, she reported for the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald. Gabby, who holds bachelors and masters degrees from Yale University, is married and has two adult children; she holds U.S. and UK citizenship.
Kirstine Stewart is the Chief Strategy Officer for Diply. She is also the former Vice-President of Media at Twitter and the former Managing Director for Twitter Canada. Prior, to joining Twitter Kirstine was the EVP of CBC’s English services, where she oversaw the network’s English-language radio, television and digital programming, and revenue and operations. She was also the Senior Vice-President of programming for Alliance Atlantis, overseeing HGTV, Food Network, National Geographic, BBC Canada and others. Kirstine is also the author of the national bestseller “Our Turn.”
Salil Tripathi was born in India and lives in London. He chairs PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee. He has been a correspondent in Southeast Asia and has written for many major international publications. His books include Offense: The Hindu Case (Seagull, 2009), The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy (Aleph, 2014, Yale 2016), and Detours: Songs of the Open Road (Tranquebar, 2015). He is currently working on a book on Gujaratis.
Dana Wolfe is a five-time Emmy-award winning journalist and independent media consultant. She was the founding executive producer of the acclaimed live debate series, Intelligence Squared U.S., and served for over a decade as a producer for ABC News, Nightline. Wolfe sits on the board of Retro Report, a nonprofit documentary news organization.
Chris Cannon is an American writer living in Vancouver, B.C. He is the author of five books on culture and politics. His writing and photography have appeared in Rolling Stone, Mens Journal, Billboard, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, the Globe and Mail, the Sydney Morning Herald, and many others. His work has been recognized by the Tides Foundation, the Western Magazine Awards, the National Magazine Awards, the Canadian Arts Council, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the British Columbia Arts Council, and he was the recipient of the 2011 Dave Greber Award for his coverage of Iraq War deserters.
Editor, Europe. Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck is an award-winning journalist and editor based in Brussels. She has reported from across Europe, the US, West Africa, the Middle East and Arctic, focusing on the intersection of politics and money in trade, globalisation, migration and environment. She helped build up an investigative news service in Washington, DC and trained print reporters in investigative and narrative techniques. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, PBS Frontline/World, Newsweek, the Toronto Globe and Mail, Spiegel and others.
Former head of Al Jazeera English and CBC News. Spent thirty years as News and Documentary Producer at CBC News, including eight as Editor-in-Chief. He served as Managing Director of Al Jazeera English and is the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair in News Media and Technology at Ryerson’s School of Journalism.
Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. Is the professor of investigative journalism at Columbia Journalism School, Director of the School’s Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and Co-founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Author and editor of more than a dozen books.
Former Senior Producer, ABC News & NPR. Winner of 13 Emmy Awards and a DuPont for his work as senior producer of ABC News NIGHTLINE from 1987 to 2005. Also served as senior broadcast producer of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and as Director of PM Programming at National Public Radio.
Author and Journalist. Daily Telegraph’s Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for more than twenty years. Writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, the Nation and Daily Times (Pakistan), and is a best-selling author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (which has sold 1.5 million copies and been translated into 22 languages).
American author andNational Security Investigations Editor for Reuters. Atlantic Contributing Editor, CNN Contributor. Won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of the Srebrenica massacre for the Christian Science Monitor. Former New York Times South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi. Shared a second Pulitzer Prize for the Times’ 2008 team coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Producer, PBS Frontline. Longtime producer for PBS Frontline, covering revolution in Central America, the fall of communism in Russia, and the war in Iraq. Among the first journalists to investigate Col. Oliver North’s clandestine network and one of the first western reporters to investigate the emergence of Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network.
Secretary, Alfred Friend Press Partners. Secretary at a non-profit dedicated to building newsrooms that work towards maintaining an informed public via collaboration with international journalists and other organizations with the shared goals. From 1994 to 2003, Susan ran the Knight International Press Fellowship Program (now the Knight International Journalism Fellowships) at the International Center for Journalists (ICJ).
Filmmaker. Director, producer, author, motivational speaker, disability rights activist. Bonnie Sherr Klein is a veteran award-winning filmmaker, most renowned for her passionate National Film Board documentary Not A Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981).
Intern. Logan is a fourth year university student enrolled in the dual degree program between Sciences Po Paris and the UBC Sauder School of Business. Soon to graduate with degrees in both international affairs and finance, Logan intends to pursue a career in international development and impact investing.
Intern. With a passion for exploring how cities adapt to social and climatic change, Rithikha is currently pursuing her studies in physical geography and computer science at the University of British Columbia. She was previously an intern at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region and currently serves as executive director of IdeasXChange, a Vancouver-based social innovation hub. She is a firm believer in the power of story-telling to create more inclusive, cognizant societies.
Intern. Connor recently graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA Hons. in History and International Relations. Previously, Connor worked for the International Reporting Program, run through UBC’s School of Journalism. In addition to pursuing his own research in urban planning, Connor’s future plans include pursing a Masters degree and working for the Global Reporting Centre in a developmental capacity.
Intern. Emma Loy is a multimedia journalist based in Vancouver, B.C., covering topics in science, environment and health. Emma is an avid traveller who discovered her reporting skills while travelling through a remote cholera-stricken village in Papua New Guinea. She holds a B.Sc. in Biology and a Master’s of Journalism. Emma interned at CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks and was a regular contributor to The Ubyssey during her studies at the UBC School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in The L.A. Times, CBC Indigenous and CBC’s Unreserved. Emma is currently working on several projects in data journalism and video storytelling.
