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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mohamed Fahmy is an Egyptian-born Canadian award-winning journalist, war correspondent and author. Fahmy has worked extensively in the Middle East, North Africa, for CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera English. Between 2014 and 2015, he was imprisoned in Egypt for exercising his profession as a journalist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Producer. Sarah Carter is the CBS News Johannesburg Bureau Chief and Adjunct Professor at the UBC School of Journalism. Carter began her career as a Video Journalist at the New York Times Television. She went on to work as Johannesburg Bureau Chief at CBS News. Sarah has won numerous awards including a Peabody in 2000 for “Death by Denial”, a one hour special on AIDS in Africa for 60 Minutes II, and an Emmy for the IRP project “Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground.” She is based in Johannesburg, where she lives with her husband and three daughters.
Producer. Trisha Sorrells Doyle is an Emmy award-winning journalist and freelance producer. A Columbia Law School graduate, Trisha began her career at ABC News where she worked on major programs, including Nightline and 20/20. She went on to work as an associate producer with CBS News 60 Minutes where she routinely covered international stories, including terrorism, the global AIDS crisis, and the war in Iraq. She splits her time between New York City and Connecticut.
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.
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.
Project Manager. 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.
Field Producer. 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.
Producer. Calyn Shaw is a senior writer at CBC News Network. He received his MJ from UBC in 2012. While at UBC he reported on violent land conflicts in Brazil for The New York Times as part of the IRP. Calyn also holds an MA in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick. His work has appeared in The New York Times, CBC, ESPN the Magazine, The Globe and Mail, CBC.ca and TheTyee.ca
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.
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.
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.
Research Fellow. After more than a decade living in Latin America, Europe and Asia, I came to Canada in 2013 to begin a Masters of Journalism at the University of British Columbia, where I have worked with print, online, audio and visual storytelling. My work has been published by the Washington Post, The Tyee, Megaphone Magazine, Huffington Post Canada and AlterNet. In 2014/15, I worked on a year-long investigation on mental health in low-resource regions, through a fellowship with the International Reporting Program at UBC. In 2016 the project received an Edward R. Murrow award.
Research Assistant. Si Chen is a graduate student at UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is a multimedia journalist from China who lives and works in Vancouver. She has experience in print, video, online journalism as well as data visualization. Her work has been published in the Southern Metropolis Daily, The Tyee, Global News and The Globe and Mail.
Research Assistant and Web Producer. Luiz Lopes is a multimedia journalist and graduate student at UBC’s School of Journalism, focusing on global health, algorithm bias and VR. He’s had internships at CBC’s The National and The Globe and Mail, in Canada, and Globo TV, in Brazil. He’s also worked with experienced journalists at The Associated Press in stories ranging from political protests in Brazil to a report that revealed dangerously high levels of viruses from human sewage in Rio Olympic water venues. His work has appeared on the AP wires (The New York Times, Yahoo, USA Today, Al Jazeera), CBC, The Globe and Mail, Globo TV and Folha de S. Paulo.
Research Assistant. Olivier Musafiri is a Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs candidate at the University of British Columbia. He’s deeply passionate about Global policies around good governance and development. He has an outstanding experience working with United Nations in programme management and research. Olivier is fluent in both French and English, currently he serves as Vice President of Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs students association at UBC.
Research Assistant. João Vitor Corrêa is a journalist based in Vancouver, BC, Canada who is deeply passionate about visual storytelling. Originally from Maceió, Brazil, he currently works with leading journalists, scholars and media partners around the world on innovative, solutions-oriented journalism projects at the Global Reporting Centre. He’s also a Master of Journalism candidate at the UBC School of Journalism, where he’s specializing in International Human Rights and Gender reporting. His work has appeared in cross-format publications such as TV Globo, the CBC, The Tyee and Global News TV.
Production Assistant. Frederick Blichert is a student at UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is a Vancouver-based freelance film critic and arts journalist. His film and book reviews, features, essays, and news have appeared in various publications internationally. He recently completed a monograph on Joss Whedon’s 2005 cult film Serenity, which will be published by Columbia University Press/Wallflower Press in 2017.
Production Assistant. Stefan Labbé is a Vancouver-based journalist whose work has been featured in The Globe and Mail, OpenCanada and the CBC. He has covered a little bit of everything, from indigenous sexuality to international security. As a graduate student at the UBC School of Journalism, he is currently reporting a feature length documentary and is a fellow with the International Reporting Program. When he’s not over-reporting, Stefan enjoys rock climbing in the sun and camping in the rain.
Development and Production Consultant. 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.
Project Consultant. Rabia Mir is a MA student in Educational Studies at University of British Columbia. Rabia has worked in investment management for six years in US, UK, Singapore and Pakistan. She was also Project Director for United World College in Pakistan where she oversaw the selection, promotion and operational aspects of the program. She graduated from Harvard University in 2007.
Intern. Erika Witt is a student intern at the Global Reporting Center. She is currently pursuing a degree in Religion, Literature, and Arts as the conclusion of a dual degree program between University of British Columbia and Sciences Po (Institut d’études politiques de Paris). Her past work in student documentary filmmaking has received recognition by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ student chapter of Northern California, and additionally, she has experience as the former co-editor of Sciences Po’s literary and cultural magazine. She hopes to orient her future work around the intersection between culture, politics, and social justice.
Douglas was born and raised in Venezuela. He has worked as a journalist and has developed a career as a communication and marketing consultant for some government, multinational and private organizations. Douglas moved to Vancouver in 2012 and he’s currently completing a Double Master Degree in Global Communication at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Communication University of China (CUC), where he’s working on how government policy frameworks shape media industries, and the implications of this for the formation of public spheres. He’s building on this work by studying media literacy within alternative and online spaces.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
