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Tuesday Feb 09

PPH Staff

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Written by Administrator Tuesday, 17 February 2009 13:17

Deepa Fernandes :: Executive Director: Deepa Fernandes, is an award-winning journalist, who is the host of Wakeup Call, the morning news show at WBAI 99.5 FM. Since 2003, Deepa has anchored most of the major national broadcasts for the Pacifica Network, including election year events, Supreme Court nomination hearings and major congressional investigations. Deepa is the author of Targeted, Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration, where she writes about immigration policy and history, published by Seven Stories Press in December 2006. Deepa is also a Puffin Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute. Her writings have appeared in the Village Voice, the Nation Magazine and Mother Jones magazine, among many others. She has an MA from Columbia University. Jacqueline Kook :: Associate Director. Jacqueline joins PPH with a range of experience in education and the arts that comes from teaching, program management, and policy research. Jacqueline graduated from Hamilton College with a B.A. in Public Policy and Dance, and a commitment to matching deserving youth with a fair and quality education. Jacqueline used her experiences in developing leadership and mentoring programs for women of color and performance choreography to teach English at an under-resourced all girls’ school in South Korea. When she returned to the U.S., she managed and taught the Active Learning Leads to Literacy program at Leap, forging partnerships with the Department of Education, public school teachers, artists, and cultural institutions. Jacqueline firmly believes the creative arts and multiple literacies can engage all kinds and ages of learners to forge a participatory education. She employs this whether she is facilitating radio journalism, early childhood movement, or fitness classes. Jacqueline is a member of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and the recipient of a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship. Kristal Graham :: is 18 going on 19 and a freshman at Long Island University. For two years now, she has been apart of the Junior Scholars program which teaches youth black history and media. After an introduction to radio through Junior Scholars she became involved in Radio Rootz. Through Radio Rootz her interest changed from majoring in Economics to Radio Journalism. She now majors in Broadcast Journalism. Ever since she was 12 she's set goals and as she matured she realized it was as important to achieve the goals set. For example, she has achieved honor roll throughout her high school career. Her most immense goal is to own her own radio station. Renee Feltz :: CNPI Senior Instructor. Renee entered journalism via the Pacifica radio network when she co-founded the news department at KPFT in Houston, Texas. Her focus on under-represented voices led her to interview more than 25 men and women on Texas Death Row. During Hurricane Katrina she coordinated national coverage for the network. She graduated in 2008 from the Columbia School of Journalism, where she was a broadcast concentrator and a fellow in the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. Renee and her colleague, Stokely Baksh, produced an award-winning multimedia investigative masters project, www.TheBusinessofDetention.com, which examined the main company detaining undocumented immigrants set to be deported. She has also reported for the BBC, NPR, CBC, FSRN, Air America, Making Contact, Indymedia, The Indypendent, Columbia Journalism Review, The Texas Observer, NACLA: Report on the Americas, Mother Jones and the New York Times. Kristofer Ríos :: AmeriCorps CTC VISTA, Kristofer Ríos, is the Program Associate for the Digital Expansion Initiative. Kristofer's passion for community radio began in college where he co-hosted his first weekly show. Since then, he has been a guest host for FM radio stations in Ghana and Brazil, and he continues to produce and host a weekly internet radio show on East Village Radio. Kristofer is also a freelance journalist who has dedicated the last three years to researching, archiving, and preserving music in Ghana, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He was also a recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Research Fellowship. Abdulai Bah :: Abdulai is a member of Nah We Yone (It belongs to us), a NYC-based grassroots organization helping immigrants from Africa. Abdulai is actively involved with immigrant communities through the interpretation services he provides to various NYC & NJ law firms and NGOs handling pro-bono asylum cases. He has reported on the condition of detention of asylum seekers, and has worked on the production of stories involving victims of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. Abdulai holds<br />a Bachelor's degree from the College of Staten Island. Padmini :: Her Bio?? Sylvia Guerrero :: Born in El Salvador, Sylvia Guerrero is a Hofstra University Graduate with a B.A. in Communication. She is currently our Youth Training Director for our Youth Program, Radio Rootz and a freelance reporter. Always interested in the roll of the media, Sylvia Teaches media literacy and radio production in two New York City public schools and hopes to inspire youth to become a part of the same media that influences them. Leigh Ann Caldwell :: Leigh Ann Caldwell, DC Director. Leigh Ann is the Washington DC editor for the nationally syndicated newscast Free Speech Radio News. She is one of the few women to hold the top position of Editor in the lively and complex media market of Washington, D.C. As a former instructor for Rootz in New York who believes in its lessons and philosophy, she felt the youth of DC deserved media justice and was instrumental in the launching of Rootz DC in 2006. Joshua Breitbart :: Policy Director In addition to being PPH's Policy Director, Joshua Breitbart is a principal of The Ethos Group, which advises municipalities and civil society on broadband development, and a producer of the Allied Media Conference, the premier national gathering of community media hosted in Detroit, Michigan. He was a founder of Brooklyn's Rooftop Films, now one of the largest film festivals in New York City. From 2001-2004, he worked with Clamor Magazine as a Consulting Editor and from 2000-2005 he helped organize the global Indymedia movement. Josh writes about media and technology on his blog and is a regular contributor to GovTech's Digital Communities.