Thought Leader Dialogue Participants: 2010

Maud Beelman is the Deputy Managing Editor for Projects and Enterprise at The Dallas Morning News. Her team's reports have won numerous state and national journalism awards for print and online media, including the Online News Association award for investigative reporting and the Sigma Delta Chi award for public service in online journalism.  more>

Sanjeev Chatterjee is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has taught classes in studio and field production, media and society, writing and documentary production at the University of Miami. He received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002 and has been nominated two more times since. more>

Joyce Dehli is vice president for news for Lee Enterprises, which publishes 53 newspapers, their affiliated online sites and mobile products. They include the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison and other mid-size and smaller news operations across the United States.  more>

Margaret Engel is the director of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation and has written for Glamour Magazine, Esquire, Air & Space magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. Her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times. She co-authored the play Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, which premiered at the Philadelphia Theatre Company in March, 2010, starring Kathleen Turner and directed by David Esbjornson.  more>

Ryland Fisher is a former Editor of the Cape Times and has close to 30 years of experience in the media industry. He served several newspapers in senior positions, among them the Sunday Times where he was assistant editor. He is the author of Race (published 2007), a book dealing with some of the issues related to race and racism in post-apartheid South Africa.  more>

Darren Gersh is Nightly Business Report's Washington, DC Bureau Chief. Darren has interviewed many leading economic decision makers ranging from then-Federal Reserve Board Governor Ben Bernanke to Speaker Dennis Hastert, Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin, Larry Summers and Henry Paulson. His reporting from India received a 2008 Loeb Award, one of the highest honors in journalism. more>

David B. Green is a 20-year veteran of journalism, and two years ago joined the editorial staff of Haaretz newspaper, which publishes a daily English-language edition together with the International Herald Tribune. There he edits a monthly book review, a weekly page of original oped articles, and carries out a number of other editorial tasks.  more>

Jennifer 8. Lee was a reporter at The New York Times for nine years. She harbors a deep obsession for Chinese food, the product of which is The Fortune Cookie Chronicles (Twelve, 2008), which explores how Chinese food is all-American. At the Times, she wrote about poverty, the environment, crime, politics, and technology. She has been called, by NPR, a "conceptual scoop artist." more>

Eric Le Reste is the Senior Producer for Canadian Public Television's weekly show Enquête, a specialized documentary based program in investigative reporting. He has been with the CBC for the past 25 years, working as a journalist and producer for national radio and television programs. Many of his documentaries have received prestigious awards, including the CBC National Television Price for best Documentary in 2001. more>

Michele McLellan is a journalist and consultant who helps news organizations and journalism training organizations adapt in a rapidly changing new media environment. Michele is a 2009-10 fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.  more>

Victor Merina is the senior correspondent and special projects editor for reznet, a Web site that focuses on Native American issues and indigenous people.  He also is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism who has lectured and spoken at workshops from South Dakota to South Africa and at venues from Indiana to Indonesia.  more>

Dean Miller was named Director of the Center for News Literacy on August 25, 2009. The center, established in September 2007 and housed at Stony Brook University's School of Journalism, is the nation's first Center for News Literacy designed to educate current and future news consumers on how to judge the credibility and reliability of news.  more>

Georgia Popplewell is a media producer, journalist, editor and blogger from Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in independent television in the Caribbean since 1989 and has written extensively on culture, music, flm and sport. In 2005, she started Caribbean Free Radio, the Caribbean's frst podcast. Popplewell is Managing Director of Global Voices, a Netherlands-based international citizen media project founded at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.  more>

Raul Ramirez is KQED Public Radio’s Executive Director for News and Public Affairs.  As News Director at KQED since 1991, he led the launching of KQED Radio’s statewide news service, The California Report, of the nationally distributed Asian-Pacific program, Pacific Time, and other locally produced programs.  more>

Anette Ruiz Morales was born into a bicultural family (Puerto Rican mother, and Colombian father), and has always been interested in observing, understanding, explaining, and recording patterns of life from different cultural, social, and economic backgrounds. Currently she is participating in a five months fellowship program of The Kettering Foundation where she is focusing her research in studying journalism, media, and democracy, and mapping more democratic practices that have been developed in the U.S. context. more>

Connie Schultz is a nationally syndicated columnist for The Plain Dealer and Creators Syndicate. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for columns that judges praised for providing "a voice for the underdog and the underprivileged."  more>

Michael Skoler is a 2009-10 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is studying successful online content ventures and writing about new business models to support quality news coverage in today’s information-sharing culture.  more>

Vu Thanh Thuy is an award-winning journalist of South Vietnam, the only Vietnamese war correspondent during the Vietnam War awarded the Silver Star for Valor in War and the Best War Report by the Vietnam Press Corps in 1972. With her husband Phuc, Thuy founded Radio Saigon Houston 900 AM in 1999 to engage and unite the voices of Houston's Vietnamese community, but also provide a channel for the outside community to reach the Vietnamese. more>

Linda Bell Grdina serves as a program officer in the Individual and Community Transformation area of the Fetzer Institute. She develops, manages, and promotes projects that build community, promote community engagement, and foster awareness, understanding and application of love, forgiveness, and compassion in daily life. Her work includes projects that explore the role of narrative as a mechanism to shape perception, heal from trauma, and build community.

Gayatri Naraine is a spiritual educator, writer and speaker. Since 1980 she has been the Brahma Kumaris' (BK) representative to the United Nations in New York. Gayatri has been a part of Images and Voices of Hope since its inception, working as one of the main organizers of the first IVoH Conversation in New York City in 1999 and helping to facilitate conversations in Africa, Malaysia, and various locations in the United States.  more>

Roberta Baskin has won more than 75 journalism prizes, including three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Radio-Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous Emmys. But her proudest achievements are righting wrongs, changing laws, and transforming the way companies do business.  more>

Jon Funabiki is a Professor of Journalism at San Francisco State University. He was appointed in August 2006 to teach and to develop the Renaissance Journalism Center, a new interdisciplinary center on emerging opportunities for community, ethnic, and other forms of news media. He joined the university after an 11-year career with the Ford Foundation, one of the world's leading philanthropic institutions, where he was Deputy Director of the Media, Arts & Culture Unit (MAC) and was responsible for the Foundation's multimillion-dollar grantmaking strategies on news media issues. more>

Judy Rodgers has worked at the intersection of media, business, and education for over 30 years.  In the early days of the prerecorded videocassette industry, she worked for CBS and then for CBS-Fox Video in their first forays into this new industry - first in sports and subsequently in educational videos.  During those years she worked with best selling authors such as John Naisbitt (Megatrends), Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence), and public figures such as CBS news anchor, Walter Cronkite.  more>

Bob Steele returned to his Hoosier roots in 2008 to become the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Professor of Journalism at DePauw University, his undergraduate alma mater. He also now serves as the Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw. He teaches a seminar on journalism ethics and another seminar on leadership and responsibility to students from all majors. He also developed a course at the intersection of values, storytelling and writing modeled after the popular public radio project, This I Believe. more>

Maryalice Quinn lives in the details - she's a freelance Logistics Coordinator that works with Images & Voices of Hope to produce annual events including the Thought Leader Dialogues and the IVOH World Summit. While you'll mostly encounter her through email as she's coordinating your travel arrangements, she also works behind the scenes managing the IVOH website.  more>