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Andrew White
Director, Center for New York City Affairs at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
Director of the Center for New York City Affairs at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. He is a writer on New York City politics, government, neighborhoods and grassroots movements. Much of his work explores the impact of government social policy on urban poverty and on working class communities. He teaches courses on the news media, the politics of policy, New York City government, and criminal justice. Previously, White was editor of City Limits magazine and executive director of City Limits Community Information Services, where he founded the Center for an Urban Future, City Limits Weekly and Child Welfare Watch, which he continues to edit. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Newsday, The Daily News, The American Prospect and elsewhere.
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Jordan Moss
Executive Editor, Bronx News Network; Editor, Norwood News
Jordan Moss has been editor of the Norwood News since 1994 and is executive editor of the Bronx News Network, which publishes newspapers and Web sites in low-income neighborhoods in the borough. He co-founded the Independent Press Assocation-New York, now New York Community Media Alliance. He has written for several publications, including Newsday, City Limits, Social Policy, Mother Jones, and The Nation. A graduate of Vassar College, Moss lives in the Kingsbridge Heights section of the Bronx with his wife and daughter.
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Veena Merchant
Editor, News India-Times and Desi Talk
Editor of News India-Times and Desi Talk, both newsweeklies in English, targeting Indian Americans. She is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Indian American Center for Political Awareness (IACPA), a non-profit organization to educate Indian Americans about the U.S. political process and how to influence it. To foster new leadership within the Indian American community, IACPA started Washington Leadership Program (WLP) in 1994. WLP sends out college students to participate in an eight-week summer internship program on the Hill. During 2004-05, IACPA co-sponsored a political talk show, "Capitol Debates," hosted by Merchant, on T.V. Asia, which is a 24-hour ethnic satellite and cable channel. The show was specially timed just before the 2004 elections to discuss and debate the issues concerning Indian Americans. Because of its popularity, it was extended beyond the elections for almost a year. She was the deputy publisher of India Abroad Publications from 1973 to 2000. In India, Merchant headed a television series in the mid-eighties on the national television channel, Doordarshan. She was editor-in-chief of Chic magazine, a product-driven publication; she was special sections editor for Star & Style, a film magazine; and editor-in-chief of the annual publication of Eve's Weekly, a popular women's magazine.
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David Greaves
Founder and President, DBG MEDIA
Founder and president of DBG MEDIA, publishers of Our Time Press, a bimonthly newspaper distributed in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He is president of the Board of Directors and acting executive director of the Magnolia Tree Earth of Bedford-Stuyvesant and a member of the Steering Committee of the New York Community Media Alliance. As co-publisher, editor-in-chief and writer for Our Time Press, Mr. Greaves has won numerous individual and company awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists and the Independent Press Association- New York, as well as community recognition from Bedford Stuyvesant Community Legal Services, Restoration Safe Haven, Stuyford Eagle Association and other community-based organizations. As Vice-President of William Greaves Productions, Inc, David, a former filmmaker, won over 40 international film festival awards & and three Emmy nominations. Among the films are documentaries such as From These Roots about the Harlem Renaissance, Voice of La Raza with Anthony Quinn, and Nationtime Gary: the First Black Political Convention. Greaves was a production manager and assistant editor of The Fight of the Century: Ali/Frazier A documentary about the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight. The film broke new ground, being the first to use 12 cameras to document a heavyweight championship fight. He was also co-editor of Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take 1, a feature film done in 1968 which is now getting extensive art house attention. David is also the author of The Sycamore Tree, a children's book.
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Tomasz Deptula
Editor and Commentator, Nowy Dziennik
Editor and Commentator of Nowy Dziennik (Polish Daily News) in New York and editorial liaison at Newsweek with Polish Newsweek. In 1980 he founded his first newspaper (not controlled by the official censorship system), in communist Poland. He published articles in several Polish underground magazines until 1988, when he came to the USA. He has been affiliated with Nowy Dziennik – Polish Daily News in New York since 1991. In 1993 he became the managing editor of this newspaper and its executive editor in 2001. Since 1995 he has collaborated with many Polish magazines, and is currently a U.S. correspondent for Newsweek Polska (the Polish edition of Newsweek Magazine) and Dziennik, one of the largest Polish dailies, published in Warsaw. In 2002/2003 he was granted the first IPA-New York Ethnic Press Fellowship. He also spent one year (2004/2005) as the John F. Knight Foundation's Fellow at Stanford University. After coming back from California he rejoined Nowy Dziennik where he currently works as commentator and editorial writer. Deptula is the recipient of several Ippies Awards.
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David Moore
President, David and Katherine Moore Family Foundation
David Moore, principal in the David and Katherine Moore Family Foundation. Moore retired from journalism in 1995. Moore edited and published Connecticut and Westchester Business Journals and International Business magazine. From the early 80s until retirement, he served as chairman of Connecticut District Export Council and a director of Westconn International Trade Association. Currently, he serves on several boards including, Westchester Community College Foundation, Port Chester Carver Center, the Gateway Center campaign committee; Port Chester-Rye Town Community Council; and the New York Community Media Alliance; Moore is an active member of The Workplace Inc. in Westchester; and serves on the Hope House, Port Chester, NY advisory committee member.
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Azadeh Khalili
Former Deputy Commissioner for the New York City Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs under the Bloomberg Administration
Former Deputy Commissioner for the New York City Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs under the Bloomberg Administration. The Office is a bridge between immigrant communities and New York City government, providing policy analysis and constituency services. From 1994 to 2001, Azadeh served as the CEO of the Youthbase, an agency that works in collaboration with the New York City Board of Education to provide technical assistance to all New York City public high schools on youth-centered HIV/AIDS education. Prior to founding Youthbase, Azadeh worked on behalf of marginalized communities and individuals serving immigrants, prisoners, former-offenders, and inner-city youth.
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Greg Ruggiero
Editor, City Lights
Editor with City Lights, the legendary San Francisco-based publisher. Ruggiero co founded the Open Media Series in 1991, and has since published some of the most outspoken scholars, social justice advocates, and dissidents of our time, including Angela Y. Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader, Arundhati Roy and Subcomandante Marcos. In 1996, Ruggiero began working with an unlicensed FM radio station on New York City's Lower East Side where for two years he hosted a weekly show using the on-air name of "DJ Thomas Paine." Under a MacArthur grant received by the National Lawyers Guild in 1999, he took a three-month sabbatical from Seven Stories Press to work as a national organizer for the advance of low-power community radio. Ruggiero worked as senior editor with Seven Stories Press from 1997 to 2005 during which time he published such critically acclaimed and bestselling titles as 9-11 by Noam Chomsky, Silencing Political Dissent by Nancy Chang, Israel/ Palestine by Tanya Reinhart, and Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis. In November 1999, Ruggiero traveled to Seattle for the historic anti-WTO protests, and while there worked with friends on the first of what has since become a global network of Independent Media Centers. Represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, in February 2002 Greg won a First Amendment victory in Federal District Court. The case, Ruggiero vs. the FCC proved that the U.S. government's lifetime prohibition against individuals who had engaged in civil disobedience from applying for a low-power FM license was unconstitutional. The victory was later overturned by an en banc decision, and the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected to hear the case. Outside of Seven Stories Press, Ruggiero has co-edited several books, including Critical Mass, Voices for a Nuclear Free Future (Open Media 1996), The New American Crisis: Radical Analysis of the Problems Facing America Today (New Press 1995), and Open Fire (New Press 1993). Ruggiero's work is archived by theTamiment Collection at New York University in Manhattan.
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Abu Taher
Executive Editor, Bangla Patrika
Executive Editor of Bangla Patrika, a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper based in Brooklyn and distributed nationally. He is an active community leader and an award-winning journalist.
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