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Victor
Tan Chen, Editor
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Victor Tan Chen is a doctoral candidate in sociology
and social policy at Harvard University. Formerly a newspaper reporter
for Newsday, he has written on religion, race relations, immigration,
and politics. His work has appeared in the Minority Law Journal,
the Philadelphia Daily News, The Miami Herald, and The
Oregonian. He graduated from Harvard in 1998 with a degree in
history and literature. The son of Taiwanese immigrant parents, Chen
was born in New York, and grew up in the suburbs of South Jersey.
He now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. E-mail:
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Jia-Rui
Chong, Literary Editor
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A proud-to-be-hyphenated Chinese-American Jersey
girl, Jia-Rui Chong currently writes for the Los Angeles Times.
She received her bachelor's degree in American history and literature
from Harvard, where she focused on interracial and interethnic relations
in nineteenth-century American culture. At Harvard, she was editor
in chief of Diversity & Distinction and a columnist for The
Harvard Crimson. She received her master's degree in English literature
from Oxford University. Her thesis examined landscapes, politics,
and twentieth-century Afro-American fiction. Chong has also been the
recipient of several poetry awards, including the Joan Grey Untermyer
Poetry Prize. She has worked for Newsweek, U.S. News & World
Report, and The Atlantic Monthly. E-mail:
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Maureen Farrell, Senior Editor
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Maureen Farrell currently works as a public affairs
assistant at The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank in Manhattan.
She graduated from Duke University in 2001 with a degree in English.
At Duke, Farrell co-founded the university's chapter of National Student
Partnership, a student-driven volunteer service organization that
linked Durham, North Carolina residents in need with critical personal,
social, and business resources to help them obtain and maintain regular
employment. She also held internships at WNBC in New York, where she
worked for senior political reporter Gabe Pressman, and at WNCN, NBC's
affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. Farrell currently resides in
Manhattan but counts Venice, Italy, where she studied abroad, and
Durham, North Carolina, as her homes away from home. E-mail:
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Enrique Gili, Advisory Board
Liaison
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Raised two blocks from the barrio and across the
street from the synagogue, Enrique Gili grew up dreaming of someplace
lush. As an over-ambitious unachiever, he holds degrees from universities
that no one really cares to brag about. His former stomping grounds
are the glaciers and alpine meadows of the Pacific Northwest; seeking
higher ground has inspired his work ever since then. He writes from
San Diego, California. E-mail:
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Ben Helphand, Projects Editor
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Originally from Eugene, Oregon, Ben Helphand studies
the history of religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School,
and journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
He is an associate editor at Troika
magazine. E-mail:
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Nicole
Leistikow, News Editor
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Nicole Leistikow is on the move again, this time
to Delhi, India. Although it had looked like she might settle down
for a while, adventure calls. She has enjoyed her year in Baltimore
teaching public high school and looks to return to the city soon.
Past highlights include: finishing a master's degree in twentieth-century
English literature at Oxford, writing a thesis on the marketing of
South African/Botswanan author Bessie Head, visiting South Africa,
and developing a strangely un-American accent. Leistikow has also
lived in New Haven, Connecticut, where she received a bachelor's degree
in English from Yale University and got certified to teach secondary
school. As usual, she looks forward to writing about her new city.
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Jasper Lin, Creative Director
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Laura Pohl, Photo Editor
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Laura Elizabeth Pohl lived in three countries by the time she was
ten years old and hasn't been able to sit still since. After graduating
from American University, Pohl worked for a year at USA Weekend
magazine and moved on to Dow Jones Newswires in New York. She
is now a Dow Jones reporter in Seoul, South Korea. When not working,
Pohl can be found practicing martial arts, trying to keep her one
plant alive, or traipsing around Asia. E-mail:
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Dustin
Ross, Visual Editor
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Dustin Ross, who grew up in Colorado, has been exploring
photography since high school. He is a graduate of Tufts University,
where he studied music and history. He also studied at the University
of Bangalore in Karnataka, India and the Universidad Católica
in Quito, Ecuador. Ross has previously worked as an editor for Work.com,
a news website of Dow Jones, and as an editor, reporter, and photographer
for the International Advisory Group, focusing on Latin America
news. E-mail:
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Keith
Rushing, Commentary Editor
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Keith Rushing, a New York City native, is currently
working as a crime reporter at The Daily Press in Newport News,
Virginia. Rushing, a graduate of The Columbia School of Journalism,
has worked as a reporter at daily and weekly newspapers in New York,
Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. E-mail:
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Solargun, Technology Consultant
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Based in New York City, Solargun focuses on art/design/technology.
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Gloria Suen, Finance Director
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Gloria Suen, a native of Hawaii, lived in a grass
shack and surfed all day, until she went to Philadelphia to broaden
her horizons. After a hard-core education spent playing intramural
volleyball and tennis, she graduated in 1998 from Wharton School of
Business at the University of Pennsylvania, with a degree in international
studies and business. She spent a year and a half as a business analyst
for Proxicom, a web consulting and development company. After
a year stint as a manager of strategic planning and product development
at Etrana (formerly ActBig), a leading provider of technology solutions
to businesses, she decided to leave the startup world to work for
"the man," in Citibank's e-business solutions group. A wannabe
marathon runner, Suen enjoys congee rice broth and jogging through
Amazon rain forests. E-mail:
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Marc Suskin, Pulse Editor
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Marc Suskin is currently enrolled in a dual-degree
program between Columbia Law School and Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Originally from the college town of Oberlin, Ohio, Marc received his
bachelor's degree from Yale University, where he studied history and
international studies when he wasn't singing college a cappella. Passionate
about human rights and public international law, Marc has most recently
interned in the International Justice department at Human Rights Watch
in New York City. Although he loves living on the Upper West Side
of Manhattan, Marc awaits with great anticipation his impending move
to Paris and all that cheese and red wine. E-mail:
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Chika Watanabe, Recruitment
Director
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Chika Watanabe finds her home somewhere between
cultures. After her childhood in Spain and Japan, she graduated from
Swarthmore College with a degree in sociology and anthropology, focusing
on the national identity of Tibetan refugees in South Asia. She has
experience working for nongovernmental organizations around the world,
but she is temporarily settled at the American Civil Liberties Union,
working on their Immigrants' Rights Project. Her future plans include
a master's degree in forced migration at Oxford, working at an NGO
in South Asia or Latin America, traveling in Mongolia, and dipping
her feet in documentary film. She definitely suffers from wanderlust.
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Contributing Staff
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Jamie Freed, Copy Editor
Jamie Freed hails from Santa Barbara, California,
and is a graduate student in the business and economic reporting program
at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is currently
an intern and stringer for Newsweek's Chicago bureau. Jamie
graduated from Brandeis University in May 2003 with a bachelor's degree
in American studies and history and was the Forum (Op-Ed) editor and
a regular columnist for the student newspaper, The Justice.
E-mail:
Mimi Hanaoka, Copy Editor
Mimi Hanaoka is currently working on her master's
degree at Columbia University, where she studies comparative religions.
Though she flirted with many academic departments during college,
she ended up graduating with a degree in philosophy and religion.
Continuing in the vein of academic greediness, she endeavors to enrich
her studies in religion through interdisciplinary work and is currently
expanding her field of study to include history and political science.
Born into Japanese and Welsh heritage and raised in Tokyo, Hanaoka
is always looking for new places to call home. E-mail:
Tracy Jan, Contributing Editor / Interact
Tracy Jan is an education reporter for The Oregonian.
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Jan graduated from Stanford University
with degrees in Communication and Sociology. She spent a year in Taipei,
Taiwan as a Fulbright journalism fellow and worked at the Taipei
Journal, an English-language weekly. She is a member of the Asian
American Journalists Association and has interned at the Minneapolis
Star Tribune, The Seattle Times, and Sunset magazine.
E-mail:
Sarah Lewis, Development Assistant
A persistent sufferer of wanderlust, Sarah Lewis
has traveled the United States and Mexico extensively in search of
hidden gems she calls "nontraditional knowledge." A graduate
of studies in journalism and philosophy, her passion is assisting
those infected with and affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. One of
the main tenets of her personal philosophy is the belief that "Those
who give their greatest stories to others leave this world with the
wealthiest of souls." She currently works as a freelance editor
and marketeer to ward off starvation in the Sonoran Desert, where
she resides today. E-mail:
Zachariah
Cherian Mampilly, Assistant Commentary Editor
Raised between India and Indiana, Zachariah Cherian
Mampilly is a doctoral student in political science at the University
of California at Los Angeles. He graduated from Tufts University with
a degree in international relations and African studies and received
his master's degree in political science at Columbia University. Mampilly
was selected as a Woodrow Wilson fellow at Princeton University and
was a fellow for African Studies at Michigan State University. He
has also worked for the Constitutional Rights Project in Lagos, Nigeria.
His writing has appeared in Africana.com, among other publications.
E-mail:
Susan Pak, Development Director
Born in South Korea and raised in central New Jersey,
Susan Pak always wanted to work in the nonprofit sector. Since graduating
from Rutgers University with degrees in biochemistry and French literature,
she has been the grants administrator for a grant-making foundation
in New York City. E-mail:
Michelle Presbury, Letters Editor
Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Michelle Presbury
currently attends North Philadelphia's Temple University and will
likely graduate next year with a bachelor's degree in magazine journalism.
E-mail:
Kelly
Yamanouchi, Contributing Editor
Born and raised in San Jose, California, Kelly Yamanouchi
graduated with a degree in English from Harvard University, where
she wrote and edited for The Harvard Crimson. Yamanouchi has
written for the Associated Press, the Denver Post, the San
Francisco Chronicle, and a number of small community papers in
the San Jose area. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in
journalism at Northwestern University. E-mail:
Stephanie
Yao, Contributing Editor
Stephanie Yao is a staff photographer at The
Oregonian in Portland. She relocated to the lush Pacific Northwest
three years ago from her dry, dusty birthplace of Albuquerque. Egg
rolls and enchiladas, lion dances and luminarias: these sum up the
life of a Chinese-New Mexican. By the time Stephanie graduated from
the University of New Mexico in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Fine
Arts (and a minor in journalism), she had mastered the spelling of
her hometown and was hopelessly addicted to green chile. After work
at the Albuquerque Journal and The Gazette in Colorado
Springs, Stephanie heeded the call to go farther west. For the last
three years she has taught and mentored high school students at a
minority journalism workshop at the University of Oregon. This year
she was the photo editor for Voices, the student newspaper
devoted to covering the national convention of the Asian American
Journalists Association. She recently began volunteering for the newsletter
of the Wallace Medical Concern, a local agency that offers medical
treatment for people without health insurance. E-mail:
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