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.

Venkata Vemuri

For more than two decades Venkata Vemuri has reported on a range of issues from India and abroad for Indian newspapers, including The Times of India and The Tribune. He has also headed the news divisions at two 24-hour news channels owned by the India Today Group in New Delhi, Aaj Tak, which broadcasts in Hindi and is the country’s largest privately owned channel, and Headlines Today, which broadcasts in English. Mr. Vemuri has specialized in social journalism and reporting on religion, politics, conflict and international disputes. He is now studying for a Ph.D. at Bournemouth University in England, researching the dumbing-down of news content on commercial television stations. Mr. Vemuri is a member of the British Association for South Asian Studies and a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, 2008.

Ann-Christin Sjölander

Ann-Christin Sjölander is a reporter for KA, Kommunalarbetaren, one of the largest magazines in Sweden. It is published fortnightly. She has worked at newspapers and magazines since graduating from the University of Uppsala with a bachelor’s degree in political science, social anthropology, English literature and German and with a master’s degree in journalism. She specializes in writing about the environment and about the effects of privatization on the work force. Her book, The Water Business, was published in 2005.

Ramu Suravajjula

Ramu Suravajjula is a senior journalist and journalism teacher in Hyderabad, India. He has written for The Hindu, one of the largest English-language daily newspapers in India, Mail Today, a New Delhi-based tabloid, and Eenadu, a vernacular daily newspaper. He teaches journalism at Osmania University and at the University of Hyderabad. Mr. Suravajjula is an alumnus of the Asian College of Journalism in the city of Chennai on the southeast coast of India and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication and journalism from Osmania. He received gold medals for achievement in both of those programs and is working on his PhD at Osmania.

Janet Jarman

Janet Jarman is a widely-travelled, award-winning multi-media journalist living in Mexico City. Her work has appeared in Geo, The New York Times and its Sunday Magazine, The Smithsonian, Newsweek and other national publications in the United States and Germany. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in environmental studies from the University of London.

Lily Norton

Lily Norton is a contributing editor from New Jersey. She has worked at ABC News One in New York City and has presented at many journalism conventions, including the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention. She is a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild, and is passionate about film, broadcast journalism, and online journalism. She is currently an English tutor at Fairfield University in Connecticut and the Asst. Managing Editor of Fairfield University’s Independent Newspaper The Mirror.

Anthony Wojtkowiak

Anthony Wojtkowiak, a graduate of the University of Miami, is an actor, journalist, and filmmaker in Miami. He has covered politics as a member of the MTV Choose or Lose Street Team, and his work has appeared on MTV, MTV.com, Poynter.org, and the Associated Press Online Video Network. In 2008, he reported on malaria research from Kenya, producing blogs and a short documentary for the Knight Center for International Media.

Dee DePass

Dee DePass is a business reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune for 15 years and she currently covers manufacturing. Ms. DePass previously worked at The Washington Times and Richmond Times Dispatch. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College and a graduate degree in Journalism from The University of Maryland.

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.

Joe Nam

Joe Nam is a journalist in Uganda and a media consultant for international organizations. Mr. Nam, who has specialized in reporting on international trade for the past decade, is a contributor to The New Vision, Uganda’s largest national newspaper. He has served as an advisor on press relations to non-profit organizations, including the World Trade Organization and Oxfam, a group founded in Britain with affiliates in 13 countries and focused on international poverty and justice. He is currently assisting private organizations develop business communication skills. Mr. Nam has a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

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.

Timothy Kasonde Kasolo

Timothy Kasonde Kasolo is a Zambian journalist covering telecommunications, the Internet and computing. He writes for the Highway Africa News Agency (HANA), www.highwayafrica.com, based in South Africa, and is a consultant on technology and new media, focusing on digital convergence, social networks, blogging and the impact of technology. Articles by Mr. Kasolo are posted at www.kasolo.org. While working as a professional journalist, Mr. Kasolo is also studying for a masters degree at Malmo University in Sweden.

Anthea Cavell

Anthea Cavell is a biologist, teacher, editor, graduate of University of Cape Town and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, who grew up in a rural area in Zimbabwe where she developed an early interest in the natural world. After marrying ichthyologist Tony Ribbink, she spent many years living at Lake Malawi with her husband and family working with various internationally funded conservation and biodiversity projects.

Francis Makari

Francis Makari is an associate editor at Lanscope Ltd, a communications company in Nairobi that is the Kenya agency for Group Africa Publishing Ltd, a Pan-African firm with offices in eight countries. Mr. Makari was born in central Kenya and graduated from Moi University with a degree in information sciences, majoring in publishing and media studies. He has worked for magazines for more than 10 years and has written extensively on agriculture, tourism, construction and the environment. In 2007, he presented a paper on the role of the media in agricultural research at a scientific conference at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Violet Law

Violet Law is a bi-media journalist with one foot in print and the other in public radio. She has written for the Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times newswire, The Progressive and the Utne Reader and is now a reporter/producer for a statewide radio program on environmental issues in New York. She began her career as staff writer for small newspapers in the northeastern and southern United States. Ms. Law earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago and a master of science degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Michael Ouma

Michael Ouma is a journalist in Nairobi. He is a regular contributor to the Standard, an East African daily newspaper based in Nairobi and to the Highway Africa News Agency at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is a specialist in telecommunications with an interest in water and the environment. Mr. Ouma has also been a reporter for East Africa Business Week, a regional weekly newspaper published in Uganda, and has written for two Nairobi-based print magazines, telecoms and tele.com, where he began his journalism career. Mr. Ouma wrote for the Sunday Standard’s bizbytes, an information and communications technology magazine in Nairobi, until it closed in July 2008.

Joyce Chimbi

Joyce Chimbi is a writer in Kenya for African Woman and the Child Feature Service. She is a 2007 graduate of Moi University in Kenya with a degree in linguistics and literature.

Zachary Ochieng

Zachary Ochieng is a widely-travelled writer, editor, actor and theater critic in Nairobi and the managing editor of The Big Issue Kenya, a monthly magazine, and NewsfromAfrica, an online daily, both published by the lay Christian Koinonia Community. Mr. Ochieng is also the acting editor of the online Highway Africa News Agency in South Africa, and a special correspondent for The EastAfrican, a regional weekly in Nairobi, and several international publications. Mr. Ochieng graduated from the University of Bombay in India with a bachelor’s degree in economics and has reported from Asia, Europe and around Africa. As an actor, he has played leading roles in Nairobi theater in classic and contemporary dramas. He is the winner of five international journalism awards.

Bruce Garrison

Bruce Garrison is a tenured full professor in the Journalism Program of the School of Communication at the University of Miami. Garrison regularly teaches feature writing, travel writing, and news reporting. A former newspaper journalist, Garrison is author of nine books, including Professional Feature Writing and Online News and the Public. He has also authored books about computers and newsgathering, news reporting, news writing, feature writing, sports reporting, and journalism in Latin America. He was awarded a Fulbright grant for the People’s Republic of China in 2004-05.

Yu Liu

Yu Liu is a first-year doctoral student specializing in media studies. Coming from People’s Republic of China, she was a reporter for a national weekly newsmagazine, Lifeweek, in Beijing. She covered stories about trends in Chinese youth culture, new lifestyle trends emerging in modern China, and the effects of new media and technology on China's changing culture. Yu Liu hopes to make a career in college teaching and freelance writing.

Alcione Gonzalez

Alcione Gonzalez will graduate from the University of Miami in December 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and psychology. She has interned at Miami Magazine and Manhattan Magazine. She has written for The Miami Herald, Miami Magazine, IFW magazine, The Miami Hurricane campus newspaper and campus magazine Distraction. She also has written for the JuliB.com Web site. She hopes to make a career as a magazine editor, in freelance writing, and in television news reporting.

Ligia Vidal

Ligia Vidal has contributed articles to The Miami Herald and worked as a freelance producer of the Beijing Olympics for Telemundo Network. Born in the city of Camaguey, Cuba, she has a passion for politics and a tremendous curiosity about the world. As a Latin Americanist, she is fascinated by the region’s history, culture, and socio-political structure.

Andrew Donovan

Andrew Donovan is entering his third year as a freelance high school sports reporter at The Miami Herald. This past summer he worked as a sports and news intern for The Observer-Dispatch in Utica, NY, serving as the newspaper's beat writer on Oneida County American Legion baseball. A senior at the University of Miami, Andrew is majoring in print journalism and political science.

Natalia Vanegas

Natalia Vanegas was born and raised in Medellin, Colombia. She has a great passion for traveling and has had the opportunity to live in Canada and the United States and she has visited Europe and Africa. She worked for two years as a traffic reporter for Telemundo 51, a Spanish-language television station in Miami. Vanegas has developed an interest in convergence journalism and has experience in photography, video, and editing. She is curious and hard working with an incredible interest in visual communication and different cultures. Vanegas is fluent in Spanish and English and is a student with a double major in journalism and international studies at the University of Miami.

Stephanie Genuardi

Stephanie Genuardi is a junior at the University of Miami majoring in print journalism and English literature with a minor in political science. She is a frequent contributor to UM’s student newspaper, The Miami Hurricane, as well UM’s student magazine, Distraction. She has spent the past two summers in her hometown of Philadelphia working at two non-profit organizations, writing for the publications of The Salvation Army and The Pennsylvania SPCA respectively.

Xoli Matomela

Xoli Matomela has worked in radio, television and print. She has completed internships at 702 Talk Radio, Grocott’s Mail in Grahamstown, ETV, Carte Blanche and cueTV. She wants to become a documentary maker focusing on cinema verite documentaries. Xoli was awarded a scholarship with Carte Blanche, South Africa’s leading investigative documentary organization, and will be working for Carte Blanche as an investigative journalist.

Hayley Mueller

Hayley Mueller is in her final year of study, specializing in television. She also writes for campus publications. She has interned at several South African media organizations, including the Mail & Guardian newspaper and Vuleka Productions, a television company. She hopes to go into documentary-making and freelance writing.

David Edmeades

David (Joe) Edmeades is a graduate student specializing in television. Coming from Zimbabwe, he has interned with Zimbabwean media organizations such as The Standard and Independent newspapers and Radio Dialogue, an activist community radio station in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He has also interned with Roger Williams, the American director, on the documentary, “iThemba: My Hope,” shot in Zimbabwe. Joe hopes to make a career in freelance camera work.

Sarah Stuteville

Sarah Stuteville is a reporter who 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 is a 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 is a webmaster and audio producer. She 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 is the 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 is 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.

Walyce Almeida

Walyce Almeida is an associate editor of 1H2O. She has been contributing articles to The Miami Herald for nearly a year and has written for The Miami Hurricane at the University of Miami and the Catalyst at Miami Dade College. She received her bachelor's degree from the UM in journalism and international relations and is currently a graduate student in multi-media journalism also at UM. Throughout her time at the university, she has worked on various online multi-media projects that are featured on the Knight Center for International Media web site.