Aparna Alluri

Reporter

Aparna is a freelance reporter based in India. She has an honors degree in History from Delhi University and a diploma from the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai, India. She has worked for the Hindu, an Indian daily and Frontline, a fortnightly magazine from the same group. During her stint as a full-time correspondent, she covered, among other things, local polls, the aftermath of floods in southern India and separatist agitation in Andhra Pradesh. As a freelancer she has written for Housecalls, an Indian magazine and reported for Himal South Asian on the state of Burmese refugees in India. She is fluent in English, Telugu and Hindi.

Jenny Asarnow

Reporter, Haitian Labor

Jenny Asarnow is a freelance journalist based in Seattle. Until early 2011, she produced talk shows and trained youth at KUOW Public Radio. She also creates programs for freeform community station Hollow Earth Radio. In 2008, Asarnow was recognized as one of public radio's 'brightest makers' by Maker's Quest 2.0 (MQ2), an initiative of the Association of Independents in Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. As part of MQ2's pilot season, she created The Corner: 23rd and Union, a hyperlocal interactive documentary and art installation about race and class on a Seattle street corner.

Terri Bennett

Reporter, Helping Haiti

Terri Bennett is a Doctoral Student of Geography at the City University of New York Graduate Center, specializing in development. She is experimenting with blending the not-so-distant techniques of journalism and ethnography as a volunteer aid worker/researcher/reporter with her current project "Helping Haiti." Her writing has appeared on the Common Language Project website, The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest 1500-Present, and Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration.She has also contributed research to several books, including Our Schools Suck: Young People Talk Back to a Segregated Nation. Terri lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she spends her spare time biking and gardening on her roof.

Anna Boiko-Weyrauch

Reporter, Ghana's Gold

Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is a freelance multimedia journalist, specializing in radio. Her work has appeared on NPR, PRI, American Public Media, VOA, The World Vision Report, and The United Nations Radio News Service among others. She has also written for The Economist and The Nation. Before following stories with a shotgun microphone, she attended the Global College of Long Island University, studying in China, Thailand, India, Italy, Rwanda, Costa Rica, Cuba and Nicaragua. She's fluent in Japanese and Spanish.

Brendan Buzzard

Reporter

I am dedicated to voices in hidden shadows. Over the last few years I have been travelling widely in Southern and East Africa writing, volunteering, and exploring. With a university focus in environmental studies and journalism, I have been trying to merge the two areas. Some of the things I have been involved with are freelance projects related to land, conflict, and equality. In 2005 I worked with a group of young people living on the streets in Zimbabwe to publish a book about their experiences.

David Mark Erickson

Reporter, Safe Haven for Greek Anarchists

David Mark Erickson is a photographer and freelance photojournalist based in his hometown of Seattle, WA. In 2000, David moved to Tanzania where he lived and worked for seven years running community wildlife conservation programs. In 2007, he took a job in Budapest working for an NGO working on the same issues of wildlife conversation, but at a global scale. In 2009, David retired from the nonprofit world and spent the next year as a backpack journalist, traveling from Hungary down the Dalmatian coast, through the Balkans, into the Middle East and then to Australia. David is a passionate photographer and enjoys working in the space where photojournalism and photography overlap. Visit David's gallery and blog to see his photographic and photojournalistic work.

Myles Estey

Reporter

Myles began his career in journalism in 2001, starting up Capital Magazine in Vancouver, Canada, and working as an editor there until stepping down in early 2007. After working in the environmental sector in Canada, Myles moved to Liberia in October 2008, and traveled around the country working as a media trainer and freelance journalist until February 2010, refining his passion for telling stories largely absent from North American media. Since then Myles has written and taken photos for a number of publications including Global Post, Vice Magazine, World Politics review and a number of Canadian publications. He has also worked in various levels of production for documentaries affiliated with CNN, CBC, the Travel Channel and VBS. He runs the blog 'The Esteyonage', and is currently living in Mexico City as a freelance journalist.

Su Fang

Reporter

Su is from Zhejiang Province, China. She holds a BA of Chinese literature and language and is currently a journalism graduate student at the University of British Columbia. She started to work with journalists as an interpreter in 2005, and then decided to pursue her goal of becoming a journalist as well. Her focuses are human rights and environmental issues in China and other southeast Asian countries. She loves traveling and she participates actively in the travelers' network www.couchsurfing.com. Link to her personal blog here: suinvan.blogspot.com.

David Owen Ferris

Reporter

David is a Political Economy of Inequality Major at Knox College, where he works to bring Fair Trade products to campus, is a member of all of the politically correct liberal activist clubs, and is a principal organizer, scavenger, and volunteer for the Knox Free Store. He lived in the mountains of Appalachia for two consecutive summers where he helped run county-wide sustainable emergency home repair centers, fell in love with home construction, the mountains, and homemade grain alcohol. He just spent four months studying progressive people's movements challenging undemocratic development projects in Thailand's Isaan region. He is involved with the Alternative Education Working Group within ENGAGE and the up-and-coming ENGAGE Mining and Land Rights Contingent. If you're in the Midwest and you're interested in alternative education or mining, contact him at doferris@gmail.com.

Grant Fuller

Reporter, Haiti: In the Wake of the Quake

Grant is a freelance radio reporter currently based in Mexico City, primarily working for the public radio show World Vision Report. Before Mexico, he was a radio trainer in West Africa for almost two years and also helped edit a book for StoryCorps, the national oral history project. A native of Austin, Texas, Grant has a BA in Communication and Spanish from Trinity University and a radio certificate from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Sarah Glidden

Cartoonist, The Road to Damascus

Sarah Glidden is a cartoonist whose first full-length book, a graphic-memoir titled "How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less," was published by DC/Vertigo Comics in November, 2010. Her work has also appeared in a number of anthologies, including Syncopated, Vol. 4, a non-fiction collection published by Random House. Her self-published work earned her an Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent at the 2008 Small Press Expo. You can see more of her work at smallnoises.com

Laura Hawkins

Copy Editor

Laura Hawkins is a graduate of the University of Arizona. She has trained under veteran copy editors in the recession-hit newsrooms of the Tucson Citizen and the Seattle Times, and written about local and state politics for PubliCola. She also edits academic papers, novels, websites, freeway signs, restaurant menus...

Leslie Josephs

Reporter

Leslie Josephs is an editor of Latinamerica Press/Noticias Aliadas, an independent bilingual news agency based in Lima, Peru that has been reporting on the marginalized populations of Latin America and the Caribbean for more than four decades.

Keith Lane

Reporter

Keith Lane is a freelance photographer and multimedia producer currently based in Washington, DC. He began his photography career in Southeast Asia working on a variety of health, education, and public policy projects for local and international NGOs. He is a Photography alumnus of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine and holds an M.S. in Environmental Education with a focus on international policy and advocacy from Lesley University. In between freelancing in Cambodia and moving to Washington, DC he had the opportunity to intern at Aurora Select, the assignment division of Aurora Photos. Keith is able to conduct and record field interviews in any and all environments and has worked collaboratively with writers, radio producers, and graphic designers.

Virginia Leavell

Reporter

Virginia works in Khon Kaen, Thailand with a community-based, alternative study abroad program. She's from Charlottesville, VA and graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 in Justice and Peace Studies. In school she worked on the Georgetown Living Wage Campaign, and afterwards helped found the Living Wage Action Coalition to network and help train students involved in student-worker solidarity campaigns.

D Jae Lee

Reporter

Jae is from Framingham, Massachusetts. He holds a degree in Humanities from Rollins College. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Albania. He also coordinated a youth center created by Save the Children to prevent child-trafficking in Kucova (formerly known as City of Stalin), Albania. He is a teacher in Tokyo and volunteers at the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism.

Marianna Leishman

Reporter

Marianna has traveled independently and solo around Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. In her 5th year of Arts/Law at The University of Sydney in Australia, she is specializing in human rights, gender and criminology. Marianna has worked at an Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre on domestic violence & sexual assault cases, has developed a sponsorship project for widows and orphans in Afghanistan, initiated a women's journal for the Sydney University Law Society, in addition to starting an Amnesty International Australia humanitarian writing competition, Freedom Writers. Marianna currently works as a paralegal at an international law firm, volunteers drafting applications for refugees, and is undertaking an internship with UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women.

Ryan Libre

Photographer

Having spent almost 8 years in and out of university, Ryan finally got a degree in Peace Studies. He has spent 5 of the last 6 years in Asia mostly doing photography and volenteering. His 2 most recent projects are Cambodia's Lost Coast and Daisetsuzan National Park. You can see more of Ryan's photos at www.idioimagers.org. Ryan took photographs for Mr. Seng's Homecoming for the CLP.

Julia Marino

Videographer, Water Wars Intern

julia@clpmag.org

Julia is a Master's student in Photography with a concentration in Interactive Multimedia at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. She received her BS with honors in Magazine Journalism from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in June 2007, and was awarded the John R. Wilhelm International Reporting Scholarship to work as the CLP's East Africa intern and Videographer. Last year she co-produced A Danger to Democracy, an audio slideshow focusing on voter fraud in Ohio and its affect on voters in the 2006 midterm elections. She has reported from Spain and Bolivia and published articles and multimedia in The Akron Beacon Journal, Speakeasymag.com, Southeast Ohio Magazine, Get Out! magazine and SoulofAthens.com.

Sebastian Meyer

Reporter

Sebastian Meyer has covered stories from many countries around the world including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. His work has been published in TIME magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times Magazine, and The Guardian, and other esteemed publications. Sebastian Meyer moved to Iraq in 2009, where, in addition to his own work, he has helped create Metrography, Iraq's first photo agency.

Kira Neel

Reporter

Kira is a nomadic performer with a nascent and dedicated interest in radio. Her work centers on the importance of communication, autonomous decision making and the disruption of borders, whether facilitating bilingual street theatre, collecting stories, or translating in health clinics. She holds a degree in Latin American studies from Brown University and is currently living in New York City.

Daniel O'Brien

Video Blogger, The Road to Damascus

Daniel O'Brien, a Seattle native, is a student at Northeastern University in Boston where he studies International Affairs. He enlisted in the Marines in 2005 and was discharged four years later. He deployed twice with Kilo 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines, once on a Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Western Pacific and once to Ramadi, Iraq. Daniel is traveling with the CLP in order to blog, document, and remember what the climatic years of the war in Iraq were like.

Tim Patterson

Reporter

After earning his degree in International Relations from Williams College in 2004, Tim spent two years as the official resident foreigner of the smallest city in all of Japan. Tim eventually plans to settle down in his hometown of Craftsbury, Vermont but these days he keeps no permanent physical address, preferring the open horizon to office walls. Track Tim down at his website, www.rucksackwanderer.com for stories and travel guides from frontier destinations like Hokkaido, Bhutan and the lost coast of Cambodia.

Mary Stachyra

Reporter

Mary Stachyra grew up in the Midwestern United States, but a love for travel keeps her exploring places all over the globe. She graduated from the City University of New York with a master's degree in international journalism, and interned at CNN International and MSNBC's "Morning Joe." She has written for The Times of India, the New York Daily News, Manhattan Media publications and other outlets.

Ernest Waititu

Founder, AfrikaNews.org; Reporter

ernest@clpmag.org

Ernest Waititu, a native of Kenya, has a master's degree in journalism from E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, where he earlier earned a Master of Arts in International Affairs. Waititu received his first degree in English and Literature from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. He has interned with the CNN International Desk in Atlanta and written for The Standard and The Nation newspapers in Kenya and The Athens NEWS in Athens, Ohio. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Afrikanews.org.