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Beginning his career as a metro reporter at the Washington Post, Acting Associate Professor Neil Henry also wrote major award-winning stories as investigative reporter, national correspondent, assistant foreign editor, and Africa bureau chief. A graduate in political science from Princeton University, Professor Henry earned a master's degree from Columbia University's School of Journalism. His three years in the Nairobi bureau brought him to 30 countries; he covered wars in Liberia and Ethiopia as well as popular movements for democratic change in Cameroon, Zambia, and Nigeria. Along with his continued interest in Africa, Professor Henry also focuses his attention on issues of journalistic ethics and mass media, urban society, and race. He's working on "Letters to Zoe," a memoir about racial integration in the 1950s and '60s.
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Jeffrey |
Jeffrey Bartholet, a Koret Foundation Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism, has served as Newsweek Magazine's bureau chief in Tokyo, Jerusalem and Nairobi. Former Middle East correspondent.
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Lynn
Burke, 27, is originally from Boston,
MA. After graduating from Harvard in 1994, she spent a year in
Cairo freelancing for the Middle East Times and learning Arabic
at the American University in Cairo. Now an intern at the Oakland
Tribune, she has written for several Bay Area newspapers including
the East Bay Express. She will graduate from UC Berkeley's Graduate
School of Journalism in May, and desperately hopes to find a job.
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Sherri
Day |
Sherri
Day describes her 12-day stay in South Africa as “a time
of incredible enlightenment, a truly spiritual experience, in short,
the trip of a lifetime.” The 22-year-old first year student's
trip to South Africa was also her first visit abroad. A 1998 Magna
Cum Laude graduate of Clark Atlanta University's Mass Communications
program, Day chose to explore a variety of topics and media in Africa.
She used the mediums of print and radio to delve into life in the
economically depressed black township of Alexandra and to learn the
intimate details of spousal abuse -- one of the country's most violent
ills. Day also wrote about black South Africans' new sense of black
pride as expressed through their hairstyles, and she examined the
issue of homeless children who live on the streets of Cape Town.
Day
is a former communications intern at United Parcel Service's corporate
headquarters. She is also a previous intern at The Albany Herald.
This summer she will have a rotating reporting internship in the
business, metropolitan and feature sections of The Sacramento Bee.
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Since graduating from the University of California
at Santa Barbara, Jessie
Deeter
has spilled drinks on several minor artists, experienced
varying degrees of stomach upset in several third-world countries,
taught Pony Club to small children, covered the "art scene"
for a small Japanese-American newspaper, been the only female taekwondo
practitioner in a small town in Morocco , survived a loft community
in downtown Los Angeles, done her time as an "assistant"
and tried to make a living as a free-lance writer. In her current
incarnation as a graduate student, she is planning an upcoming trip
to the Middle East, a documentary and a career.
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Chris
Jenkins |
First-year
student Chris
Jenkins, 28, is originally
from New York City. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1993
he worrked with adolescents in foster care in the South Bronx, first
as a caseworker then as a Program Director. He has written for several
Bay Area publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle and
Berkeley Voice.
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Second-year
student Vicki
McClure moved to San Francisco six years ago from her
native Texas. She produced a public affairs show on KALW 91.7
for three years, worked on two short films and slaved at several
temp jobs before going to graduate school. While her primary interest
lies in making documentary films, she hopes to find some way to
continue writing stories for print publications.
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Suzanne
Pardington |
Suzanne
Pardington,
a second-year student from Portland, Oregon, graduated from Scripps
College in 1993. She taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer in
Cameroon, West Africa from 1994-1996 and returned to Cameroon in
January to write a magazine article about the high drop-out rates
of the girls she taught. Last summer she interned at the Sonora
Union Democrat in Sonora, California.
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Nandi
Pointer, 28, is originally from
Oakland, California. After graduating, cum laude, from Howard
University in 1994 , she worked for a non-profit educational reform
foundation in Washington, D.C. She has written for several Bay
Area publications including, Asian Week, The San Francisco Chronicle,
& The Novato Advance. Last summer , Nandi took a bite out of the
big apple, working for MTV in the news and specials department
on an hour-long premiere episode of True Life, entitled I'm a
Porn Star. Upon graduation this May, Nandi plans to work in long-form
television as a producer and continue freelance writing in her
spare time. That is if there is any spare time after caring for
her 3-year-old daughter, Jadah.
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Erica
Terry |
Erica
Terry is a native New Yorker -- New
Yok City that is (public pools and low-key movie stars) -- who came
to California in search of sun and a new career. She was a PR director
for a NYC charity when she decided to switch sides and join the journalism
profession. She plans to pursue a career in long form television as
a field producer, but she firmly believes media synergy will keep
her writing forever. Click here for resume |