Joseph B. Treaster

Joseph B. Treaster, the editor of the 1h2o website, is a former reporter and foreign correspondent for The New York Times. Mr. Treaster, who continues to contribute to The Times, joined the University of Miami School of Communication as the Knight Chair for Cross-Cultural Communication in 2008. He has reported from throughout the United States and from more than 80 other countries for The Times and national magazines and has won numerous awards. He has written several books, including, Paul Volcker: The Making of A Financial Legend and Hurricane Force: In the Path of America’s Deadliest Storms.

Kelly Hearn

Kelly Hearn is an independent correspondent to National Geographic News. His investigative work has been funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and The North American Congress for Latin America. His has made four journalistic expeditions into the Amazon reporting on oil and gas development. His work has been published in The Washington Post, The Nation, The Washington Times and other outlets. He has been a guest on programs including Democracy Now! and given talks at institutions including The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, University of Virginia and University of Miami School of Communication.

Alexandra De Filippo

Alexandra De Filippo grew up in her hometown of Barquisimeto, a small city in the central west region of Venezuela. Because of her Italian heritage, she had the opportunity to travel often to visit Europe and became interested in international affairs. After graduated high school in the United States, at age16 , she continued learning about other cultures through the study of languages, art and history in France and Italy.

Alexandra is a junior at the University of Miami School of Business Administration majoring in Economics and Political Science and with minors in Finance and International Relations.

Sarah Stuteville

Sarah Stuteville, reporter, graduated from Hunter College in 2006.
Her work has been published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the
Seattle Weekly and the Indypendent. She has received several awards including the  Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, student category, in 2005, and the Independent Press Association Award for best feature, 2006.

Alex Stonehill

Alex Stonehill, photographer and videographer. His work has been featured in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Seattle Weekly,
Kenya's Daily Nation, and on PBS. Mr. Stonehill graduated from New School University in 2003.

Jessica Partnow

Jessica Partnow, webmaster and audio producer, has produced material for KUOW Seattle, WBEZ Chicago, and the World Vision Report, a public radio program produced by World Vision, a United States- based nonprofit organization that does development work in 97 countries.  Ms. Partnow, who graduated from Hunter College in 2006,  was a Knight New Media Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism in 2006.

Ernest Waititu

Ernest Waititu, editor-in-chief of Afrikanews.org., a website in Nairobi, Kenya that provides online news from all over the African continent.  Mr. Waititu, who founded Afrikanews.org in 2005,  was born in Central Kenya and studied English and literature at Kenyatta University in Nairobi.  He graduated in 2001 and earned a master's degree in journalism from the  E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. He also has a  master's  in International Affairs  from Ohio University.  Mr. Waititu was an intern on the International Desk of CNN  in Atlanta and has written for the two main daily newspapers in Nairobi, The Standard and The Nation, as well as for The Athens NEWS in Athens, Ohio.

Julia Marino

Julia Marino, a graduate student at the Ohio University School of Visual Communication, is working in East Africa as an intern and videographer for the Common Language Project on the John R Wilhelm International Reporting Scholarship. She has reported on election fraud in Ohio and has reported from Spain and Bolivia. Her articles and multimedia work have appeared in The Akron Beacon Journal, Speakeasymag.com, Southeast Ohio Magazine, Get Out! magazine and SoulofAthens.com.

Abhijit Dasgupta

Abhijit Dasgupta is an alumnus of the Film & TV Institute of India, Pune and a veteran internationally acclaimed television producer. Abhijit has served as station director of Doordarshan (Indian National Television), Bureau Chief of WTN (Worldwide Television News ) and was Production -in-charge of ESPN. Abhijit is currently the Secretary of Kolkata Sukriti Foundation, an eNGO that uses TV to reach the unreached with socially purposive programming.

Omar Salman Al Slaise

Omar Salman Al Slaise holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Production from The American Intercontinental University in London. He is a producer, director and non-linear editor for Bahrain Radio & Television Corporation. With over 10 years experience in the visual production field, Omar has completed more than 20 programs in both Arabic and English for BTV channels including “GCC 25th Summit – Zayed Summit,” and “Beyond the News – Weekly News Program,” and has completed a number of non-linear editing and graphics projects for BTV.

Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Cory Buxton

Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Cory Buxton are professors in the Department of Teaching and Learning, School of Education, University of Miami. The authors of a wide-range of books and articles, they have recently co-authored and published Teaching Science in Elementary & Middle School: A Cognitive and Cultural Approach (SAGE Publications, 2007).