Directory of Dart Society Members

Alysa Landry is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow. Alysa is a reporter at the Farmington Daily Times in Four Corners, N.M. She covers the Navajo Nation and has reported extensively on returning Iraq War veterans. The winner of an Associated Press Managing Editors award for beat reporting, she was previously a reporter for the Patriot-Ledger of Quincy, Mass. Reach her at alysa_phillips@yahoo.com

Amy Dockser Marcus is a 2009 Ochberg Fellow. Amy is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in Boston. She was based in Israel as the Journal’s Middle East correspondent from 1991 to 1998, and has written two books that grew out of her experiences there. She was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for
a series she wrote about the physical, emotional, and monetary challenges facing cancer survivors. Reach her at amydmarcus@aol.com

Amy Herdy is a 2004 Ochberg Fellow. Amy is an independent
writer who lives in Boulder, Colorado. She was previously an investigative reporter for the The Denver Post. She spent more than a year uncovering flaws in the handling of domestic abuse and sexual assault cases in the military, for the series, “Betrayal in the Ranks,” which was a finalist for the 2004 Dart Award. Reach her at aherdy@hotmail.com

Arlene Levinson is a 1999 Ochberg Fellow. Arlene is Licensed Clinical Social Worker at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Mass., where she works with treatment-resistant patients. This is her second career, started in 2002 after 16 years as a reporter for the Associated Press. She has written for the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia, The Charlotte Observer and other newspapers, and published, “An Addict in the Family” in 1986. As an investigative journalist, she was recognized for her coverage of violence as a societal issue. Reach her at arlenerRL@envision.com

Arnessa Garrett is a 2006 Ochberg Fellow. She is an editor at the Dallas Morning News. Reach her at arnessagarrett@gmail.com

Arnim Stauth is a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Arnim is a correspondent for the West German broadcast company WDR. He has covered violent conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Iraq, and natural disasters in the Congo, Afghanistan and Russia. Reach him at arnim.stauth@wdr.de

Brett McLeod is a 2010 Ochberg Fellow. Brett is a journalist for Nine News in Melbourne, Australia, whose work takes him around the globe, to Baghdad, Beirut, Bangkok and Deli. Reach him at bmcleod@nine.com.au

Caleb Hellerman is a 2004 Ochberg fellow. Caleb is producer
for CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He has reported extensively on mental health issues, including suicide and treatments for PTSD.
Reach him at caleb.hellerman@turner.com

Carol Gorga Williams is a 2001 Ochberg Fellow. Carol is a
reporter for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey. She has covered the criminal
justice system, diversity issues, the impact of trauma and PTSD. Reach her at cgorga@ad.gannett.com

Cecilia Balli is a 2010 Ochberg Fellow. Cecillia is a writer-at-large for a Texas Monthly magazine. A native of Brownsville, Texas, she has written extensively on border and
immigration issues, including this piece for Harper Reach her at ceciliaballi@gmail.com

Chris Bull is a 1999 Ochberg Fellow. Chris is a book author and contributor to USA Today, The Washington Post Magazine and GQ. He was national correspondent for The Advocate where he covered Congress, the White House, Supreme Court and federal agencies. He has written on hate crimes, political activism, and education issues. Reach him at chrisbull2@aol.com

Christina Lamb is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Washington, DC, Christina is a foreign affairs correspondent for the Sunday Times of London. She has been a foreign correspondent for more than 20 years, living in Pakistan, Brazil and South Africa. She is also the author of several books. Reach her at christina_lamb@hotmail.com

Clara Germani is a 2009 Mimi Award honorable mention winner.
Based in Boston, Clara is a senior editor for The Christian Science Monitor where she has directed covered of several international projects. See germani@csmonitor.com

Connie Cone Sexton is a 2011 inducted member. Sexton is a senior reporter at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. She started in 1983 at The Phoenix Gazette (which later merged with the its sister paper, the Republic, in 1997). She’s won several awards for her writing, which has included coverage of end-of-life issues and medical and emotional trauma. Along with these topics,
she writes about the death of the everyman or woman as part of the newspaper feature, “A Life Remembered.” Sexton is currently working on a graduate certificate in Trauma and Bereavement and a master’s in Applied Ethics: The Professions with a Concentration in Pastoral Care Ethics and Spirituality at Arizona State University. She expects to graduate in December. Reach her at connie.sexton@arizonarepublic.com

Dan Grech is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow. Dan is Americas reporter for “Marketplace,” covering Latin American business and the Hispanic economy in the United States from WLRN Studios in downtown Miami. He interned at the Boston Globe and the Washington Post before landing a job at The Miami Herald in 2000, where he helped report the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the return of Elián González to Cuba. He also contributed to a staff-written book on the contested 2000 presidential election. In 2003, Grech traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, on a Fulbright fellowship and an Inter American Press Association scholarship. There he earned a master’s degree in Spanish-language journalism, covered Argentina for The Miami Herald and did his first radio
piece on the tango. Reach him at dangrech@gmail.com

Dana Hull is a 2004 Ochberg Fellow. Dana is a reporter for The San Jose Mercury News. He has reported on the California energy crisis, earthquakes, the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, forest fires and sexual abuse by Catholic priests. Reach him at dhull@mercurynews.com

Darius Bazargan is a 2004 Ochberg fellow. Based in London, Darius is a BBC producer for Northeastern United Kingdom. He has covered riots, arms smuggling, currency fraud and gay weddings in South Africa. Reach him at darius2001@hotmail.com

Dave Cullen is a 2002 Ochberg Fellow. Dave is a freelance writer based in New York who writes for The New York Times, National Public Radio, salon.con and slate.com. He is the author of Columbine, a chronicle of the students of Columbine High School through the ten years following the 1999 school shooting that took the lives of 15. Reach him at dave@davecullen.com

Dave Philipps is a 2010 Ochberg Fellow. Dave is the author of “Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home,” published by Palgrave Macmillan. A reporter for The Colorado Springs Gazette, he writes long-form investigative pieces as well as light features. He was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in the local reporting category for his series, on combat soldiers at Fort Carson returning from war and committing violence in Colorado Springs. Reach him at davidnphilipps@gmail.com

David Clark Scott is the 2007 Mimi Award winner. Based in
Boston, he is currently online editor for The Christian Science Monitor. He was previously the magazine’s international editor.
Reach him at scottd@csmonitor.com

David Handschuh is a 1999 Ochberg Fellow. David has been a staff photographer at the New York Daily News for 23 years, covering major news events including Sept. 11, the Columbine High School shootings, and the aftermath of Pan Am flight 103′s crash in Scotland. In addition to his work at the News, David teaches Photojournalism and Multimedia at NYU and runs www.FlyingManatee.com, a travel site and www.NYCFoodPhotos.com,  which shows off his restaurant, food and chef photographs.  Reach him at david@davidhandschuh.com

David Loyn is a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Based in London, he is an award-winning foreign correspondent for the BBC, where he has worked for more than 30 years covering Moscow, Kosovo, Kasmir and Kabul, among others. Reach him at dloyn@yahoo.co.uk

David Wood is a 2001 Ochberg Fellow. David writes about war for Politics Daily. In more than 30 years as a correspondent successively for Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Newhouse News Service and the Baltimore Sun, David has written widely about the trauma of war and the effects of violence on those who inflict and those who suffer is consequences. Reach him at woodwriter@hotmail.com

Deirdre Stoelzle Graves is a 1999 Ochberg Fellow and the current executive director of the Dart Society. Deirdre is a writer and painter who lives in Wyoming. As a crime reporter and city editor at the Casper-Star Tribune, her work focused on social justice. She has traveled twice to Rwanda with the Dart Society.
Reach her at dstoelzle@yahoo.com

Devin Maverick Robins is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow. Devin has worked as a producer and director for National Public Radio for more than a decade on shows including “Talk of the Nation,” “The Tavis Smiley Show” and “News and Notes.” Over the years, her work has included producing more than 50 hours of NPR’s live news coverage of 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as Hurricane Katrina and it’s aftermath. Reach her at devinrobins33@gmail.com

Donna Alvis-Banks is a 2007 Ochberg Fellow. Donna is a recently retired reporter who spent 20 years at The Roanoke Times covering a variety of beats. Dubbed “the compassionate one” in her newsroom, editors often sent her to interview survivors of tragic incidents and gave her the responsibility of narrating stories that saddened and shocked the Southwest Virginia community where she was born and raised. Tops among those stories was the worst school shooting in U.S. history when, on April 16, 2007, a disturbed Virginia Tech student killed 32 people and injured dozens of others before committing suicide. Reach her at donnabicycle@hotmail.com

Donna DeCesare is a 2003 Ochberg Fellow. She is an award-winning photojournalist with extensive experience covering Latin America. She is currently on faculty at the University of Texas-Austin.
Reach her at donnadecesare@gmail.com

Dylan Smith is a 2011 inducted member. Smith is editor and publisher of the online Tucson Sentinel. Dylan used to be the online editor at the Tucson Citizen. After the press stopped rolling there, he worked with some tenacious volunteers to start up TucsonSentinel.com. Prior to his work at the Citizen, Smith was the Executive Director of The Quintessential Stage, a nonprofit theatre company. He has experience in a variety of fields, including nonprofits, restaurant operations, construction planning, and thenews business. He was the Editor and Publisher of ¿K? Magazine, an arts and culture monthly. He worked nearly around the clock in the days following the Jan. 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson of Rep. Gabby Giffords. He is an experienced designer and computer programmer. He serves as an Invited Expert on the World Wide Web Consortium’s HTML Working Group, helping to write the latest specification for the language that runs the Internet. Smith comes from a long line of journalists; his great-grandfather began work as a reporter fresh from high school in 1900. His family operated the Wheaton (Ill.) Daily Journal for over 50 years. Despite his long heritage in print journalism, he’s a firm believer in the power of the Internet to inform and inspire like no other medium for reporting. Reach him at dylansmith@tucsonsentinel.com

Elaine Silvestrini is a 2000 Ochberg Fellow. Elaine is a reporter with the Tampa Tribune, where she covers the federal court beat. Silvestrini has covered criminal trials, a program to help sexual-assault victims negotiate the medical and legal systems and the impact of emotional trauma on the family of a young woman killed by a drunk driver.
Reach her at esilvestrini@tampatrib.com

Ford Burkhart is a 2011 inducted member. Burkhart is an
independent writer and editor based in Tucson since August 2007, when he retired from the New York Times Foreign Desk where he worked for 11 years. He has worked in Tucson recently for the University of Arizona, the Research Corporation and several other organizations. He has a Ph.D. in public administration, from ASU, and taught at several colleges overseas and in the U.S., including the University of Arizona, and has held workshops on the press for Stanford and Columbia University. He has worked for the Los Angeles Times the Miami Herald and The Associated Press. He won a share of a New York Times Pulitzer Prize as a writer of Portraits of Grief after 9/11. As a stringer, he was part of the New York Times reporting team that covered the shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others in January 2011. Reach him at fburkhart@peoplepc.com

Frank Green is a 2001 Ochberg Fellow. Frank covers federal courts, state appellate courts, police and criminal justice issues including death-penalty cases for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. His coverage of the criminal justice system includes exploration of the role of race in capital punishment in a state where the execution rate is second only to Texas. His areas of expertise include federal courts, the death penalty and the wrongly convicted. Reach him at fgreen@timesdispatch.com

Frank is a 1999 Ochberg Fellow. Frank Smyth is a freelance journalist who has reported from many of the world’s trouble spots, including El Salvador, Guatemala, Rwanda and Iraq, where he was held in prison for 18 days. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal Washington Post and New Republic. He also serves as an investigative consultant for Human Rights Watch.
Reach him at smyth.frank@gmail.com

Gary Tippet is a 2004 Ochberg Fellow and the first to be named from Australia. He is a senior writer for The Age in Melbourne where most of his writing focuses on crime, victims and trauma. Reach him at gtippet@theage.com.au

George Hoff is a 2007 Ochberg Fellow. George was managing
editor of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation News in Ottawa, Canada until 2009.
He was previously director of CBC’s global operations and Washington bureau producer. Reach him at georgejhoff@gmail.com

Gina Barton is a 2000 Ochberg Fellow. Gina covers federal court, federal agencies and legal issues for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She also has worked at the Indianapolis Star, the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune and the Huntington (WV) Herald Dispatch. She is also the author of a true crime narrative. Read some of favorite work here and
here. Reach her at writerbarton@yahoo.com

Gretel Daugherty is a 2000 Ochberg Fellow. Gretel is chief videographer for the Grand Junction daily Sentinel. She previously worked as a photojournalist who has worked for the Denver Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Associated Press. She has been active in reporting on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and in fighting for the rights of military veterans who suffer from PTSD. See her work here
Reach her at daughouse@aol.com

Hollman Morris is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Cambridge, Mass., Hollman is a reporter for “Contravía” on Channel One in Colombia. He has received the top award for TV reporting in Latin America. Human Rights Watch also awarded Morris the 2007 Human Rights Defender Award for courageous reporting.
Reach him at hollmanmorris@gmail.com

Huascar Robles Carrasquillo is a 2009 Ochberg Fellow. Huascar covers urban planning and environmental justice for Metro San Juan in Puerto Rico. He has written extensively about land expropriations and citizen displacement.
Reach him at huascar.robles@gmail.com

Jacques Menasche is a 2010 Ochberg Fellow. Jacques is an independent writer, editor, and filmmaker. He began his career as a desk clerk at The New York Times and has since covered conflict and culture around the world. His writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, ESPN The Magazine, Vanity Fair, Fader, The Independent, and Corriere dela Sera.
Reach him at jmenasche@yahoo.com

James MacMillan is a 2007 Ochberg Fellow. Jim MacMillan is an independent multimedia journalist, university educator and instructional new media consultant, based in Philadelphia. MacMillan also spent a year as an assistant professor on the convergence journalism faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Previously, he served as the senior photographer, a photo-columnist and the first solo video journalist at the Philadelphia Daily News, where he worked from 1991-2008.
Reach him at jim@jimmacmillan.com

James Palka is a 2011 inducted member. Palka has been a scenic, travel, and event photographer since 1983 and has been nationally published in magazines, calendars, travel brochures, text books, and on music CD covers. On January 8th, 2011, James stepped into the role of photojournalist when he recorded the Giffords’ “Congress On Your Corner” crime scene. “All my training, all my automatic responses and instincts with the camera as an event photographer came into play, “ he said, “as I was in a state of shock while capturing the scene.” Through the AP, CNN, and other media outlets, his exclusive, iconic images of the scene, including the image of Giffords on the ambulance gurney, were spread across the nation and around the world.
Reach him at jfp1111@gmail.com

Jan Winburn is a 2009 winner of the Mimi Award. Jan is an editor at CNN and previously an editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Baltimore Sun, where she supervised a series that won a Pulitzer in 1997. She specializes in stories that explore nuanced human emotions. Reach her at janwinburn@hotmail.com

Jason Vest is a 2003 Ochberg Fellow. Jason Vest is an investigative journalist best known for his reporting in connection with the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. He is a Senior Correspondent for The American Prospect, and a contributor to the Boston Phoenix, Government Executive, The Nation, National Journal, Salon, and The Village Voice, specializing in intelligence and national security affairs.
Reach him at jav3603@gmail.com

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow. Jeff is a database and investigative reporter for Hoy Chicago. Previously he has written for the Chicago Reporter and South Shore Community News on Chicago’s South Side and the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Herald, the Daily Herald and the Common Review, among many other publications. His areas of expertise include nursing home disparities and police shootings.
Reach him at jkellylowenstein@yahoo.com

Jenny Manrique is a 2006 Ochberg Fellow. Jenny is based in Bogota, Colombia, where she is editor of Votebien. Her areas of expertise include Latin America, human rights and refugees. Reach her at manriquejenny@gmail.com

Jim Trotter is the winner of the 2010 Mimi Award. Jim is West Enterprise editor for the AP’s Western region and is based in Phoenix. He was previously an assistant managing editor and projects editor at the Rocky Mountain News. Trotter has also written for The Sacramento Bee, the San Jose Mercury News, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Miami Herald and the Austin American-Statesman. Reach him at jtrotter@ap.org

Jimmie Briggs is a 2000 Ochberg Fellow. Jimmie is the executive director of Man Up, a global campaign to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls. Man Up Campaign is the brainchild of Jimmie, also an award-winning journalist, author and lecturer. A National Magazine Award finalist and recipient of honors from the Open Society Institute, National Association of Black Journalists, Alicia Patterson Foundation and Carter Center , among others. His book on child soldiers and war-affected children, Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War won him accolades in 2005. Jimmie has served as an adjunct professor of investigative journalism at the New School for Social Research and was a George A. Miller Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois: Champaign-Urbana. His next book is “The Wars Women Fight: Dispatches from A Father to His Daughter.” Reach him at jimmiebriggs@gmail.com

Jimmy Boegle is a 2011 inducted member. Boegle has been the editor of Wick Communications’ Tucson Weekly since January 2003. Boegle is a native of Reno, Nev. He is a 1997 honors graduate of Stanford University, with a bachelor’s degree in communication and history. After college, he worked in The AP’s San Francisco bureau before moving back to the Reno area. He covered
crime and courts for a year and a half with the Daily Sparks Tribune in 1998 and 1999. After his graduation from Stanford, Boegle free-lanced for the News & Review before being named news editor of the paper in August 1999. Five months later, at the age of 24, he was named the paper’s editor, a position he held until October 2001. He moved to Las Vegas in November 2001 to become a staff writer (focusing on politics) at CityLife, then the sister paper of the Tucson Weekly. Several months later, he became CityLife’s news editor, a position he held until joining the Tucson Weekly as editor. Reach him at jboegle@tusconweekly.com

Jina Moore is a 2009 Ochberg Fellow. She is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She specializes in post-conflict and human rights reporting. She has worked from Sierra Leone, Rwanda and eastern Congo. Her areas of expertise include foreign affairs, human rights, and Africa. Reach her at jinamoore@gmail.com

Joan Walsh was the 2008 Mimi Award Honorable Mention winner.
Joan is editor-at-large at Salon.com. Her nominators said that under her leadership the Salon staff has gotten “permission – and a steady nudge of encouragement – to care deeply about what [they] write about, to make it matter.” Reach her at joan.walsh@salon.com

John McCusker is a 2009 Ochberg Fellow. John has been a staff photographer at the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper since 1986. In 2005 he was one of a dozen staffers at the newspaper that stayed behind to document the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. The team was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Reach him at jmccusker@timespicayune.com

John Moore is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow and a photojournalist for Getty Images. John won the 2007 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award from the Overseas Press Club of America for his photograph capturing the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and received 2008’s Best of Photojournalism Award from the National Press Photographers Association. Reach him at jbmoore6400@gmail.com

John Trotter is a 2007 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Brooklyn, John is a freelance photojournalist whose work has been exhibited in the US and in Europe and has appeared in Life, U.S. News and World Report, Nieman Reports, American Photography and numerous other publications. Reach him at anamerican@earthlink.net

Jon Stephenson is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, he is a foreign affairs producer and correspondent for TV3, one of two major news channels in New Zealand. A former print journalist, Jon has focused much of his reporting since Sept. 11, 2001 on the U.S. War on Terrorism. Read some of his favorite pieces here and here and here.
Reach him at jonrstephenson@gmail.com

Joseph L. Rodriguez is a 2003 Ochberg Fellow. Joseph is a documentary photographer. Exhibitions of his work
have been featured throughout the United States as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands and France. Reach him at rodrigj@earthlink.net

Julia Lieblich is a 2002 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Chicago, she is an assistant professor of journalism at Loyola University. She has a master’s degree in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School and during her reporting career wrote extensively about religion and people of faith. Reach her at jlieblich@rcn.com

Juliana Ruhfus is a 2010 Ochberg fellow. Juliana is an award-winning reporter and filmmaker who produces programs with an investigative and human rights focus. She currently works for Al-Jazeera’s English flagship, Power and People. Reach her at juliana.ruhfus@aljazeera.net

Karen Marón, a 2011 inducted member, is a freelance correspondent based in Buenos Aires, who has spent 11 years in war zones, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine. She spent another ten years doing work locally and nationally as a print, radio and TV reporter/producer. Assignments for: Radio France Internationale, BBC Mundo, NBC- Telemundo, and El Tiempo Newspaper, among several other news organizations. Reach her at karenmaron@yahoo.com

Kari Lydersen is a 2009 Ochberg Fellow. Kari Lydersen is a staff writer for The Washington Post in their Midwest bureau, and also freelances for various publications including The Chicago Reader and In These Times. She is the author of three books, and co-author of “Shoot an Iraqi:
Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun.” Reach her at kari.lydersen@gmail.com

Kari Rene Hall is a 2004 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Newport Beach, Calif., Kari is photo editor for the Orange County Register. She is the author “Beyond the Killing Fields” (Aperture Books, foreword by The Dalai Lama) chronicling the lives of refugees surviving at a camp on the
Cambodian border. Her multi-media documentary, “Henry: An Unlikely Hero” on an outlaw biker single dad doing his best to raise his kids at a seedy motel near Disneyland, was nominated for a Pulitzer. See her work here. Reach her at kescamilla@univision.net

Karyn Spencer is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow. Karyn is an investigator for the federal public defender’s office in Omaha. She was previously a reporter for the Omaha World-Herald. She was the paper’s lead writer in its coverage of a 2007 Omaha mall shooting in which a mentally ill
young man killed eight people and himself. Her areas of expertise include crime, foster care and mental health. Reach her at karynspencer@yahoo.com

Kate Bramson is a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Kate has been on the Providence (R.I.) Journal reporting staff since 2002. Bramson spent six months in 2003 covering the rape of a 15-year-old girl by a popular classmate in Burrillville, R.I. The story, Rape in a Small Town won the 2004
Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence. See other major projects here andhere. Reach her at kbramson@projo.com

Kathleen Dreier is a 2011 inducted member. Dreier is a high-energy event and portrait photographer with a photojournalistic and documentary style. She specializes in community/personal/family events, live and studio musicians, weddings, fine art and theater performances, relaxed portraits and unexpected everyday happenings. Her photographs capture the movement, silence and emotion of the moment from the instant a cyclist crashes his head into a rock to grief-stricken parents visiting their children who no longer in their custody. Reach her at info@esens.com

Kathryn Eastburn is a 2001 Ochberg Fellow. A freelance journalist and author, Kathryn was co-founder of the Colorado Springs Independent, an alternative newsweekly in one of America’s most conservative cities, where she served as editor for nearly a decade. Eastburn has written about teen suicide and its repercussions, depression, and the murder of a child
by a family member. Reach her at kathryneastburn@mac.com

Kelly Kennedy is a 2008 Ochberg Fellow. Kelly is a health policy reporter for USA Today. Her areas of expertise include military reporting, PTSD and military health. She has been a medical/health reporter for all of Gannett’s military papers — Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Times. She is also the author the book, They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq.” Reach her at kskennedy@usatoday.com

Ketevan Bochorishvili is a 2001 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Prague, Ketevan is an editor and broadcaster for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Previously she was a correspondent for the BBC Central Asia and Caucasus Service. Reach her at bochorishvilik@rferl.org

Kevin McKiernan is a 2006 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Santa Barbara, Calif., Kevin is a freelance journalist, filmmaker, photographer and television producer who has reported from Central America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. See his latest documentary here. Kevin’s articles and photographs have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Time and other publications. Reach him at kevin@kevinmckiernan.com

Kim Komenich is a 2006 Ochberg Fellow. Kim is an assistant professor for multimedia at his undergraduate alma mater San Jose State University. Previously he was a staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner. He has covered stories in the Philippines, Vietnam, El Salvador, the former Soviet Union and Guyana. He won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. In April 2010, Kim himself made news when he thwarted a bank robbery. Reach him at komenich@me.com

Kristen Lombardi is a 2003 Ochberg Fellow. Kristen is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Center for Public Integrity since 2007. She has been a journalist for more than 15 years. Her investigation into campus rape cases won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in 2010, among
other recognitions. Recently she wrote on the hidden costs of “clean coal.” Previously, Lombardi was a staff writer and investigative reporter at the Village Voice, where she provided groundbreaking coverage of the 9/11 health crisis. Her investigative reports as a staff writer for the Boston Phoenix were widely credited with helping to expose the clergy sexual-abuse scandal in that city. Reach her at klombardi10@publicintegrity.org

Lena Jakobsson is a 2006 Ochberg Fellow. Lena is a producer for In Session at CNN Headline News. Previously she was a producer at Court TV. Among many other stories, she has covered the trials of Andrea Yates, Zacarias Moussaoui and Edgar Ray Killen, and the massacre at Columbine High School. Reach her at lena.jakobsson@turner.com

Liisa Hyvarinen Temple is a 2001 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Tampa, Florida, Liisa is a journalist working in print, broadcast and online. She is also adjunct professor for print and broadcast journalism at University of South Florida and University of Tampa. Reach her at
l_hyvarinien@hotmail.com

Linell Smith is a 2002 Ochberg Fellow. Linell is an award-winning reporter and columnist for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. She writes on arts, health and religion and teaches writing at Goucher College. She can be reached at linellsmith05@yahoo.com

Lisa Millar is a 2007 Ochberg Fellow. Lisa is the North American correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, working in both radio and television as a journalist and presenter. Based in Washington, D.C., she covers major stories in Asia, London and America, including the 2005 Bali bombing and the controversial hanging of an Australian drug runner in Singapore. She won a Walkley Award for investigative reporting in 2005. Reach her at millar.lisa@abc.net.au

Lois Norder is the winner of the 2008 Mimi Award for editors. Lois is the managing editor for investigations at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Her reporters describe her as an idea factory, writing guru, skeptical optimist and crusader for the underdog. She has inspired scores of reporters across the country. Reach her at lnorder@star-telegram.com

Lori Grinkeris a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Lori is a photographer for Contact Press Images. She has photographed victims of violent conflict and war in more than 30 countries. Reach her at lori@lorigrinker.com

Margarita Akhvlediani is a 2007 Ochberg Fellow. She worked as a reporter, editor and producer for Georgian newspapers through the civil wars and social breakdown of the early 1990s. She founded the Causasian new service, Black Sea Press and was a correspondent for the Russian radio station, Ekho Mosky. Reach her at margotakhvledi@gmail.com

Maria Alvarez is a 2002 Ochberg Fellow. Maria is a freelance reporter for Newsday and adjunct professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY). As a reporter for the New York Post, she covered the Elian Gonzalez news story, the murder trial of Kennedy family nephew Michael Skakel and Ground Zero on and after September 11. She is a former reporter for the Hartford Courant and Boston Globe. Reach her at bpcteresa@live.com

Maryn McKenna is a 2009 Ochberg Fellow. Maryn is an independent magazine and online journalist specializing in domestic and global public health policy. Reach her at mmckenna@mindspring.com

Melissa Manware Treadaway is a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Previously a reporter for The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, Melissa has covered numerous tragic stories including that of a death row inmate convicted of stabbing and beating his parents to death and a homeless, alcoholic Army veteran who died in a fire he started to keep warm. Her areas of expertise include crime, trauma and investigative reporting. She is now an analyst for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Reach her at jmwt@ctc.net

Melissa Sweet is a 2006 Ochberg Fellow. She is a freelance health journalist based in Australia. She previously worked at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin magazine and the Australian Associated Press. Reach her at melissa@sweetcommunication.com.au

Michel Marizco is a 2007 Ochberg Fellow. Michel is a freelance journalist and editor of borderreporter.com, investigating and covering issues in the Mexico-U.S. border regions. He has reported extensively on the killings of migrants, and for the last several years has been investigating the cases of missing and murdered Mexican reporters. Reach him at marizco@borderreporter.com

Michelle Trudeau is a 2006 Ochberg Fellow. Michelle is a contributing science correspondent for National Public Radio. Her news reports and feature stories, which cover the areas of human behavior, child development, the brain sciences, and mental health, air on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Reach her at trudeau.npr@gmail.com

Mike Walter is a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Mike is president of Walter Media. Previously he was morning anchor and reporter for WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C., and has won four Emmy awards. Walter was the senior correspondent for USA TODAY LIVE when, on September 11, 2001, he witnessed an American Airlines jet crash into the Pentagon. Mike contributed to two books about the terrorist attacks: Covering Catastrophe and Broadcasting through Crisis. The many stories he has covered during his career include relief missions in Somalia and Russia, the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and the Northridge Earthquake in Southern California. Reach him at mikewaltertv@gmail.com

Miles Moffeit is a 2004 Ochberg Fellow. Miles is an investigative reporter for the Dallas Morning News. In 2008, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer for his series written with Susan Greene at the Denver Post, which demonstrated how destruction of evidence in criminal cases across the nation can free the guilty and convict the innocent, prompting official efforts to correct breakdowns. Reach him at mmoffeit@gmail.com

Miriam Davidson is a 2011 inducted member. Davidson is a Tucson-based freelance journalist who specializes in U.S.-Mexico border issues. She is the author of two books, both published by the University of Arizona Press: “Convictions of the Heart: Jim Corbett and the Sanctuary Movement,” (1988) and Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border” (2000).Her newspaper and magazine credits include The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, and The Progressive. From 1993 to 1997, she covered Tucson and Nogales for The Arizona Republic. She also has worked as a magazine editor and taught journalism at the University of Arizona. Davidson currently serves as a senior writer for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. She lives in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains with her husband and two children.

Moni Basu is a 2008 Ochberg fellow. Moni is a reporter for CNN. She was previously a national and international reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She spent five months during the Iraq War embedded with the Georgia Army National Guard brigade. Reach her at monibasu.com

Natalie Pompilio is a 2001 Ochberg Fellow. She is a Philadelphia-based writer who previously worked as a reporter for the New Orleans Times Picayune and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Reach her at nataliepompilio@yahoo.com

Patrick Farrell is a 2010 Ochberg Fellow. Patrick has been a photographer at The Miami Herald since 1987. He is the recipient of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his photographs of the devastation in Haiti caused by a particularly brutal hurricane season. Reach him at pfarrell@miamiherald.com

Paul McEnroe is a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Paul is an investigative reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He has covered murders, clergy abuse, government wrong-doing and war in his 25-year career at the Star Tribune. He covered the 1991 Gulf War and the current war in Iraq. His areas of expertise include social justice, legal affairs, and the plight of refugees. Reach him at paul.mcenroe@startribune.com

Penny Owen is a 2000 Ochberg Fellow. Penny is a correspondent for the Associated Press and former staff reporter for the Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City. She has covered tornadoes, murder, and the Oklahoma City bombing and subsequent trials. Reach her at pennyowen@att.net

Peter Burdin is a 2003 Ochberg Fellow. Peter is senior producer of the BBC’s newsgathering team. In 1989, he covered the violent suppression of democracy demonstrators in China’s Tiananmen Square. In the 1990s he covered South Africa coming to terms with its apartheid past. Reach him at peter.burdin@bbc.co.uk

Peter Cave is a 2009 Ochberg Fellow. Peter is a veteran reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. For over 30 years, he has covered most of the world’s hotspots, winning Australia’s most coveted journalism award for coverage of Tiananmen Square, fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iraq War. Reach him at peterfcave@gmail.com

Peter J. Spielmann is a 2002 Ochberg Fellow. Peter is an editor and supervisor at The Associated Press and adjunct faculty member at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He was a special correspondent for the Associated Press in Belgium in 1999 reporting on NATO actions as well as international aid efforts in the Balkans. His areas of expertise include human rights, international affairs and UN reporting. See his work at www.humanrightsreporting.com Reach him at pspielmann@msn.com

Petra Tabeling is a 2006 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Koln, Germany, Petra is a freelance print and radio journalist. Her work has appeared in WDR and several German newspapers. Reach her at petra_tabeling@yahoo.de

Philip Williams is a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Based in London, Philip is a senior reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has covered numerous violent and tragic events around the world including terrorist attacks, military coups, earthquakes and tsunamis. Reach him at williamsp57@hotmail.com

Philip Zabriskie is a 2009 Ochberg Fellow. Philip lived in Asia for seven years while working as a staff writer for Time magazine and later freelancing for National Geographic and others, while maintaining an avowed interest in the physical and psychological landscapes of post-conflict situations. Since returning to his native New York in 2008, he has written for several publications and websites, including New York, Condé Nast Traveler, Fortune, Slate and others. Reach him at philzabrikskie@gmail.com

Robert L. Jamieson, Jr. is a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Robert was a metro columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer until it ceased publishing a print edition in 2009. He began as a P-I reporter in 1991, covering education, city hall and general assignment beats. He covered, among many other stories, the crash of Alaska Flight 261, the fatal police shooting of a mentally ill man whose death sparked police to adopt less lethal weapons, and the local Mardi Gras riots. Jamieson’s first news jobs were for the Wall Street Journal and the Oakland Tribune.

Ron Claiborne is a 2003 Ochberg Fellow. Ron is the news anchor for ABC News’ weekend edition of “Good Morning America.” Claiborne joined ABC News in 1986. In addition to
his news anchor duties, he is a general assignment correspondent based in New York, reporting for “World News with Diane Sawyer” and “Good Morning America.” Reach him at ron.e.claiborne@abc.com

Ron Haviv is a 2004 Ochberg Fellow. Ron is an award-winning photojournalist who has produced images of conflict and humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world. As cofounder of the VII agency, he has covered conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean, crisis in Africa, the Gulf War, fighting in Russia, conflict in the Balkans, the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Reach him at haviv@viiphoto.com

Ronke Phillips is a 2009 Ochberg Fellow. With experience in print, radio and television, Ronke has worked for the BBC Day Time, BBC features, BBC New York and GMTV. She currently works for ITV’s London Tonight. Reach her at ronke.phillips@itvlondon.com

Rosemary Armao is a journalism professor at the State University of New York at Albany. Armao is also a consultant and member of the board of directors of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia and of the Organized Crime and Corruption Project based in Bucharest. In a career of nearly 40 years, she has written and edited at a number of U.S. newspapers,
taught in several universities and worked on reporting and media development projects in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. She is a former executive director and member of the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors and a former Knight International Press Fellow. She’s served as a bureau chief for the Baltimore Sun, managing editor of the Sarasota, Fla., Herald Tribune and as state and investigative editor of the Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Sun Sentinel. She holds degrees from Syracuse University and Ohio State University. Reach her at rosemary.armao@gmail.com

Russell Lewis is a 2010 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, Russell is the southern bureau chief for NPR, responsible for the coverage of issues and people important to the southeastern United States. He spent a year in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Reach him at rdlewis@npr.com

Ruth Teichroeb is a 2002 Ochberg Fellow. Ruth is an investigative reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Her stories have uncovered abuse in residential schools for the deaf, revealed police officials’ failure to crack down on domestic violence in the ranks and most recently documented the mistreatment of troubled developmentally disabled adults in the care of private companies. Reach her at rteich5@hotmail.com

Scott North is a 2003 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Everett, Wash., Scott is the assistant city editor in charge of investigations for The Herald in Everett, WA. Previously a crime reporter, North has reported on virtually every aspect of the criminal justice system and helped The Herald develop innovative techniques in covering violence in a sensitive, accurate, and insightful way. Reach him at north@heraldnet.com

Scott Wallace is a 2004 Ochberg Fellow. Scott Wallace is a freelance writer, producer and contributing editor to the National Geographic Adventure Magazine. Wallace has interviewed many victims of political violence beginning more than two decades ago with relatives of death squad victims in El Salvador. Reach him at wallace@scottwallace.com

Seamus Kelters is a 2002 Ochberg Fellow. Based in Belfast, Seamus is a television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. A native of Ireland, Kelters is a co-creator of
“Lost Lives,”a highly detailed chronicle of the lives of the more than 3,600 men, women, and children killed in Northern Ireland from 1966-2000. He joined the BBC as a broadcast journalist and was a journalist for the Irish News newspaper. Reach him at seamus.kelters@btinternet.com

Sharon Schmickle is a 2005 Ochberg Fellow. Sharon is a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She has covered conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the aftermath of the tsunami in South Asia, and school shootings in Red Lake and Rocori high schools in Minnesota. Reach her at sschmickle@gmail.com

Solange Azevedo is a 2010 Ochberg Fellow. Solange writes for Brazilian magazines. In 2009, she was the winner of the Human Rights and Service to Community Award by the Inter American Associated Press. Reach her at solange.azevedo@uol.com.br

Susan Kaplan is a 2010 Ochberg Fellow. Susan has been a public radio reporter at the NPR affiliate WFCR, based in Western Massachusetts, since 1995. Her work focuses on education, innovative technologies and most recently women in the military. Reach her at radiosue@gmail.com

Susan Snyder is a 2007 Ochberg Fellow. Susan is a staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Snyder has reported extensively on violence in the lives of Philadelphia children. In 2005 she spent six months reporting “Writing for Their Lives,” a series documenting how a single eighth grade class dealt with violence in their own families and communities. That series received a National Headliners Award. Reach her at ssnyder@phillynews.com

Tara McKelvey is a 2007 Ochberg Fellow. Tara is a senior editor at The American Prospect Magazine. She is a research fellow at NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security and a contributing editor to Marie Claire magazine. McKelvey is the author of “Monstering: Inside America’s Policy on Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War,” and editor of “One of the Guys: Female Torturers and Aggressors.” She has reporting extensively on war crimes, human rights and related issues. Reach her at taramckelvey@gmail.com

is a 2010 Ochberg Fellow. Teru is a freelance photographer based in New York City. In 1998, he began working as a contributing photographer to Life magazine, and then for other publications including Time, Newsweek, National Geographic and Outside. His current social media project, Basetrack.org, chronicles the deployment of a battalion of US Marines in southern Afghanistan. Reach him at teru@kuwayama.com

Tina Croley is a 2007 Mimi Award Honorable Mention winner. Tina is the enterprise editor at Washington-based “Stars and Stripes.” She was features editor at the Detroit Free Press, where she guided reporters covering traumatic events. Reach her at tbcroley@gmail.com

Tom Zoellner is a 2011 inducted member. Zoellner is the author of three books: Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World, winner of the American Institute of Physics Science award, and The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit and Desire, an American Library Association Notable Book of 2006. His upcoming book is “Train: Smoke, Iron and the Invention of the Modern World.” Reach him at tom.zoellner@gmail.com