Victoria Baranetsky
(victoriabaranetsky@gmail.com)

Victoria Baranetsky graduated from Columbia College in 2006 where she wrote her thesis on environmental racism. She has been published on newassignment.net, americanventuremagazine.com and The Spectator. Currently, she is starting an arts non-profit called FireAlarm.

Teri Berg
(tb2231@columbia.edu)

 Teri Berg, an  Ohio native and Buckeye fan,  is a  longtime sportswriter and editor, who has  covered everything from the NFL to boxing and  NASCAR. She loves Roger Clemens and Brett  Favre, and wishes they would retire.

Roopa Gona
(rsg5695@gmail.com)

 Roopa Gona moved to New York in 2002 and  immediately fell in love with it. She's always had  an appetite for life — she developed her passion  for both food and journalism most recently while  working at Gourmet Magazine. Roopa hopes to  use her new media skills to tell better stories in  creative new ways.

Maureen Googoo
(mag2169@columbia.edu)

 Maureen Googoo is a proud Mi'kmaq from Nova  Scotia, Canada. She has worked as a reporter in  print, radio and te levision in for nearly 20 years  in  Canada, where she has devoted much of her  career to covering Aboriginal issues. A graduate  of Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia  and Ryerson University, in Toronto, Ont. Maureen  is learning to combine her skills by specializing in  new media at the Columbia University Graduate  School of Journalism.

Anna-Katarina Gravgaard
(ag2576@columbia.edu)

 Anna-Katarina Gravgaard is a Danish-born  journalist studying in New York on a Fulbright  scholarship. She is part owner of two local papers  in Copenhagen and has worked in journalism sice  she was 13. Her main interest is how media  creates communities. She has an MA in English  Studies and has studied and worked in Scotland  and Belgium. She loves sailing on Ada-Marie, an  old fishing boat from 1906.

Brian Henderson
(brchenderson@gmail.com)

 Brian Henderson is a native of Dayton, Ohio, but  he has made New York a second home.  He  graduated from Fordham University in 2006 with  a double major in English and history and a  concentration in American Catholic studies.

Brian Howard
(bch2108@columbia.edu)

 Brian C. Howard spent five years as managing  editor of E/The Environmental Magazine and has  written for Connecticut Magazine, The Green  Guide, Alternet, Oceana and Britain's Ergo  Living. He was a finalist for the 2005  Reuters/IUCN Environmental Media Awards and  co-edited the book Green Living. Howard lives in  Connecticut with his girlfriend, a neurotic cocker  spaniel and three wily cats.

Bess Kargman
(brk2101@columbia.edu)

 Bess Kargman, a new media concentrator, began  her journalism career after graduating from  Amherst College.  When she's not in school, she  works as a freelance journalist and media  consultant, focusing on the future of news.  Kargman also interns for Marketplace, the  National Public Radio business show.

Tara Kyle
(tdk2107@columbia.edu)

 Tara Kyle was raised in Juneau, Alaska, and  graduated from Dartmouth College, where she  majored in history and minored in religion.  Tara  has worked as an urban education fellow and  immigration legal assistant. She served as the  editor-in-chief and publisher of her college's daily  newspaper and is currently an online editorial  intern for Condé Nast Traveler.

Jennifer Lai
(jl2879@columbia.edu)

 Jennifer Lai has written for the Queens Chronicle  and About.com. She graduated from Wesleyan  University with a B.A. in studio arts and is a  graduate student at Columbia University’s  Graduate School of Journalism.  She loves  movies, reading fiction and health-related issues.  Jennifer plans to freelance as a writer and work  in multimedia journalism.

Lexi Matsui
(amm2188@columbia.edu)

 Lexi Matsui was born and raised the San  Francisco Bay area and graduated from UCLA  with degrees in world arts and cultures and  English. She is currently working on a master's in  journalism from Columbia University with a focus  on new media.

Stephanie Merry
(stephanie.merry@gmail.com)

 Stephanie Merry graduated from the University of  Virginia with a degree in poetry writing and  Spanish. Prior to attending Columbia, she sold  advertising for The Hill newspaper in Washington.  She enjoys watching “The Office,” doing  handstands in yoga class, poetry by Marie Howe  and telling irreverent stories on her blog.

Lorenzo Morales
(lam2164@columbia.edu)

 Lorenzo Morales is a Colombian-born journalist  who recently moved to New York. He has worked  as a senior reporter for Semana, the main  weekly political magazine in Colombia, and has  largely reported on the armed conflict in his  country. He is a frequent contributor of  PiedePagina and Arcadia, two Colombian cultural  publications. He mantains the blog El Agente  Naranja and  is fluent in Spanish and French.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
(ashihab@gmail.com)

 Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was born in Berkeley, CA,  and grew up in California, Kuwait, Egypt, and  Austria. He recieved his B.S. in Communication  from Boston Universityand is completing his M.S.  in Journalism at Columbia University. He interned  at the New York Times Syndicate, and writes for  many blogs, including NewAssignment.net. His  work has been featured in PBS Washington Week  and he speaks English and Arabic and enough  German and French to get by.

Susan Sipprelle
(sms2131@columbia.edu)

 Susan M. Sipprelle is a freelance journalist and a  part-time student at the Columbia University  Graduate School of Journalism.  She has  published articles, often with accompanying  photography, in Manhattan Media's newspapers,  American Profile, The Gotham Gazette, an online  New York City paper, WoodenBoat magazine, and  in many of the North Jersey Media Group  publications.  She has also had essays published  in The New York Times and The Parent Paper.

Paul Suwan
(paulsuwan@aol.com)

 Paul Suwan,  a native New Yorker,  did most of  his growing up in such places as Valparaiso, Ind.,  and Exeter, N.H. After graduating from  Northwestern University in 1999, he spent more  than five years as a sportswriter for The  Journal  News in White Plains, N.Y. He enjoys seeing live  music, collecting vinyl records and watching  Chicago sports.

Sheena Tahilramani
(sat2127@columbia.edu)

 Sheena Tahilramani received her B.A. in literary  journalism from the University of California,  Irvine in June 2005. Before attending the  Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, she  worked at the Los Angeles Times' Orange County  bureau as an editorial assistant. Her articles have  appeared in the Queens Chronicle, the Los  Angeles Times, the State Hornet campus  newspaper and at the Science Museum of  Minnesota. She loves watching movies, traveling,  exploring New York City and watching ice hockey.