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| Gloria Almada has been a video
editor in Chicago since 1988. In the past fifteen years, she won two Emmy
awards for her work on The Oprah Winfrey Show and has worked with such notable
directors as Joe Sedelmaier and Spike Jonze. In 2002, Almada founded Almada
Films, where she post-produces documentary and commercial projects. She also
teaches The Sound of Documentary at the Michael Rabinger Documentary Center at
Columbia College. (First round)
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| In 2002, Len Aronson founded LA
Productions after 15 years as a staff producer for Chicago's Public Television
station, WTTW 11. He produced documentaries for the public information series
Chicago Matters and served as the series' executive producer. Aronson has won
eleven Emmy awards, two Peter Lisagor Awards, and shared a Peabody Award for
his work on All the King's Horses, a study of the grieving process of
families with impaired children. (First round)
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| Allan Coukell is a freelance radio
producer, journalist and science writer based in Boston, Massachusetts. He was
the founding producer and host of Eureka!, a weekly science and
environment program on Radio New Zealand. He produced the award-winning radio
features Hungry for Justice: A Refugee Chronology (1999/2000) and Grey
Ghost (2001/2002), and has contributed to various BBC, NPR and Radio
Netherlands International programs. (First and final rounds)
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| Mandalit del Barco files stories
from NPR's Los Angeles bureau and from South America. She has also produced
half-hour documentaries about Latino Hip Hop, L.A. Homegirls and Frida Kahlo,
among other Latino-oriented topics. Born in Lima, Peru, to a Peruvian father
and Mexican-American mother, Mandalit grew up in a small town in Kansas and in
Oakland, California. Del Barco was a print reporter prior to joining NPR, and
she continues writing articles for Latina Magazine. (First and final
rounds)
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| Rebecca Gates is a musician and
sound artist who has performed as leader of The Spinanes for over a decade.
Gates has released four records, toured worldwide and has appeared on numerous
albums of other artists. She also has extensive experience in community radio.
She has composed music and text for dance and is co-founder and co-editor of The
Relay Project, a new audio magazine. (First round)
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| Lorelei Harris grew up in South
Africa but has lived and worked for many years now in Ireland. A social
anthropologist, she taught anthropology and women's studies prior to becoming a
radio producer. Harris is currently Commissioning Editor for features and
documentaries for RTE Radio 1. In 1995, she was awarded a Special Commendation
in the Prix Italia and she won the Gold Medal for Radio Documentaries in the
2001 New York Festival for A Girl Called Maria. (First and final
rounds)
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| Devorah Heitner is a doctoral
candidate at the department of Radio, Television and Film at Northwestern
University. Heitner’s research and teaching focus on race and media culture.
Her dissertation explores the evolution of African-American print media, radio
and television in New York City after 1968. (First round)
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| Craig Kois is the Station Manager of
WLUW, Loyola University Chicago's radio station, where he is also on the
faculty of the Communication Department. He directs the Lake Shore Community
Media Project, a service-learning course which provides radio access
for communities served by WLUW's signal. Kois continues to produce a number of
community and arts-based programs for WLUW. (First round)
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| Alex Kotlowitz is a celebrated
author and radio producer who has contributed to The New Yorker, The
New York Times Magazine, Chicago Public Radio's This American Life
and Chicago Matters series. Kotlowitz was a staff writer at The Wall
Street Journal from 1984 to 1993, writing on urban affairs and social
policy. He is the author of the best-selling book There Are No Children Here:
The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. (Public Service
Award)
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| As the Executive Director at Kartemquin Films, Karen
Larson's responsibilities include everything from running the
day-to-day operations of the business to planning for the future of this
thriving documentary film company. Working closely with the producers, she has
served as the project manager for all Kartemquin projects including 5 Girls,
Refrigerator Mothers, Stevie, and the forthcoming PBS series The
New Americans. (First round)
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| Lisa Yun Lee is one of the founders
of The Public Square, a non-profit organization in Chicago that
fosters thoughtful, challenging dialogue about cultural and political issues,
with an emphasis on social justice. Lee also serves on the Board of Directors
of the Chicago Humanities Festival, the advisory board of Ms. Magazine
and the Women's Studies Council of Duke University. (Initial round and Public
Service Award)
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| Gwen Macsai is the creator of What
About Joan, starring Joan Cusack and author of Lipshtick, a
book of humorous first person essays. Macsai is also an award winning writer
and radio producer for NPR. Her essays have been heard on All Things Considered,
Morning Edition and Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon
since 1988. (First round)
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| Originally a musician, Larry Massett
has been an independent radio producer for more than 20 years. He's produced
programs on a wide range of topics, from international development to science
to the arts and travel. Massett was one of the founders and original hosts of
the documentary series Soundprin. Recently he contributed to the
Armstrong-award-winning DNA Files, and is currently making programs on
Romania and the Republic of Georgia for Savvy Traveler. (First and final
rounds)
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| Lou Mallozzi is a Chicago audio
artist who has been dismembering and reconstituting language, sound, and
gesture since 1986. He has presented performance pieces and created sound
installations for numerous venues in Chicago and New York. Mallozzi’s recorded
and live radio art works have been broadcast in Northth America, Europe, and
Australia. He is also co-founder and Executive Director of Experimental Sound
Studio, and is on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
(First round)
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| Linda Paul worked at Chicago Public
Radio, where she served as a talk show producer, Executive Producer of Chicago
Matters’ 1993 series on race relations and eventually Executive
Producer of talk programming, and interim Program Director. Her stories have
appeared on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Paul has earned numerous awards including the American Bar Association's Silver
Gavel Award and several Peter Lisagor awards. She continues to freelance in
radio. (First round)
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| Priya Ramu is a National reporter
with CBC Radio based in Toronto. Over the past five years she's worked as a
Senior Producer on national radio programs such as Sounds Like Canada and
Outfront. Ramu also ran Metro Morning, CBC Toronto's
award-winning local morning program. Her work has been recognized by the
Canadian Association of Black Journalists, and by the Gabriel awards. (First
and final rounds)
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| Jonathan Rosenbaum is the film
critic for the Chicago Reader and has contributed film commentary to such
publications as Sight and Sound, The Village Voice and Film
Comment. He is author of Placing Movies: The Practice of Film
Criticism (California, 1995), Greed (1993) and Film: The
Front Line (1983), and co-author with J. Hoberman of Midnight Movies
(1983.) (First round)
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| For the last ten years, Bill Siemering
has been helping develop radio in new democracies with the Open Society
Institute. He started working in radio as a student at the University of
Wisconsin in 1952 and since has been a producer/reporter, program developer and
station manager. As the first program director of NPR, he helped develop All
Things Considered. As manager of WHYY-FM, he helped to take Fresh Air
from a local program to the to national airwaves. (First and final rounds)
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| Ellen Placey Wadey has worked as a
gift-wrapper, a commodity trader and a college writing teacher. In 2001, she
was awarded the Scott Turow fiction prize for her short story Burning Beauty.
She is co-host of Prosody, a weekly radio show featuring the work of
poets and writers on WYEP 91.3 FM in Pittsburgh. She’s also the executive
director of the Guild Complex, a literary center that promotes
multi-cultural, inter-disciplinary and inter-generational readings and
performances in Chicago's Wicker Park. (First round)
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| Teshima Walker is a Producer for the
The Tavis Smiley Show from NPR. She began her radio career at Chicago
Public Radio with the weekly program A Richard Steele Friday. Walker
also helped start-up the station’s daily newsmagazine Eight Forty-Eight.
(First round and Public Service Award)
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| Jamie York graduated from the Salt
Institute for Documentary Studies in 2000 and interned at Sound Portraits,
where he helped produce the Youth Portraits series and The Execution
Tapes. More recently, he was the New York Coordinator for The Sonic
Memorial Project. York’s currently teaching Radio Rookies at WNYC and
producing a documentary on disenfranchisement for American Radio Works. His
work has aired on All Things Considered and This American Life.
(First and final rounds)
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