
	Beth Davidz Beth Davidz is a graduate student at the Medill School. This fall she will be working at the International Herald Tribune in Paris on IHT.com and The New York Times Web site. Prior to enrolling at Medill, she spent five years at AOL Web Properties as a designer on Netscape, CompuServe and AIM. Beth graduated Phi Beta Kappa cum laude from The Ohio State University with two bachelor’s degrees: one in journalism and anthropology, and another in French.
	Nicole Duarte Nicole Duarte is a new media student at the Medill School. Prior to enrolling at Medill, she earned a B.A. in environmental policy from Wellesley College. Duarte cut her journalistic teeth at the Village Voice and the United Nations bureau of United Press International. Duarte is grateful to the Carnegie Institute and the Knight Foundation for this tremendous opportunity to do investigative reporting.
	Matt Ford Matt Ford is currently finishing his M.S. in journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Matt studied film for two years at Toronto's York University and then worked as a Studio Lighting Technician for film and television for three years in Los Angeles. In 2005, Matt graduated with high honors from Penn State University where he was president of the Penn State student television network. Matt has an avid interest in multimedia reporting and capitalizes on his technical background to explore new methods of innovative and engaging storytelling. He has done multimedia reporting on the Parisian riots last spring, the bombings in Egypt's Sinai, the repatriation of refugees to Sudan, and the detainment of Sudanese refugees in Israel. Since working on the News21 project, Matt has developed a love-hate relationship with excel spreadsheets.
	Karen Harmel Karen is currently pursuing a Master's in Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, with a specialization in Press, Politics, and Public Policy. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Florida and an M.Phil in International Studies from Trinity College Dublin, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. Karen has worked for political campaigns at the local, statewide, and national levels, and has held U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives internships.
	Christopher Kriva Christopher Kriva received bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2006. He has written for the Naples (Fla.) Daily News and interned with CNN's "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics" in Washington and WTTW-TV's "Chicago Tonight." He also covered the federal corruption trial of former Illinois Governor George Ryan for the Medill News Service. Christopher attends the University of Michigan Law School.
	Meredith Mazzotta Meredith grew up in Novato, Calif. – just north of San Francisco – playing as many sports as she possibly could. She received her BA in economics from the University of California at San Diego and spent eight months of her time there studying in Costa Rica. She moved to Washington, after graduation and worked for four years at a non-profit HIV/AIDS organization. Meredith graduated from the Medill School in June, with a focus in broadcast journalism. She worked tirelessly with her partner in crime, Phil Stuart, to produce the Digital Trails story for News21. During the project, Meredith ceased using her metro SmarTrip card. She now prefers the standard paper, untraceable kind.
	Laura McGann After graduating from UC San Diego with a degree in political science, Laura McGann eagerly came to Medill to participate in its joint-degree program with Northwestern School of Law. While at law school, Laura caught a glimpse of the legal world and she hopes to apply that perspective to a print career. While in graduate school Laura covered Washington for a small paper in California, worked the criminal courthouse beat in Chicago for a newswire and interned at Consumer Reports and CBS 2 Chicago. She hopes to continue filing Freedom of Information Act requests throughout her career.
	Dalia Naamani-Goldman Dalia Naamani-Goldman is pursuing bachelor's and Master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. She has written for Bloomberg News, The Miami Herald, The Jerusalem Post, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Detroit News and The Island Packet. Dalia has particular interest in financial reporting.
	Carlos Roig As a writer and documentary filmmaker, Carlos has reported in the United States, Latin America and Spain. He has contributed to projects for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wired Magazine, American Public Media and BBC Radio Productions. Carlos worked previously as an associate producer with NPR member station KQED (San Francisco). He has an M.A. in Hispanic Literature from New York University and a B.A. in Anthropology with High Honors from the University of California, Berkeley. Carlos is a McCormick Tribune Leadership Scholar at Northwestern University's Medill School and comes to journalism after a career as a high school administrator and instructor.
	Laura Spadanuta Laura is currently pursuing a Master’s in journalism at Northwestern University. She has had articles published in the Northwest Indiana Times, the Daily Herald and the Indiana Economic Digest. She has also produced content that has aired on PBS affiliate WYCC in Chicago. Prior to attending Northwestern, Laura worked as a financial investigator and a research analyst in the banking industry in New York, where she participated in USA Patriot Act compliance and anti-money laundering investigations. She graduated magna cum laude in 2002 from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Political Science and Communications. She has held internships at NBC’s "Dateline" and CNN’s "Inside Politics."
	Phil Stuart Phil Stuart has both a Bachelors and a Masters degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he graduated in the top ten percent of his class. In 2005, he was executive producer of “The Hope and Heartache of Autism,” a 30-minute documentary which aired on PBS affiliate WYCC in Chicago and won a national award from the Broadcast Educators Association. He has worked as a Washington correspondent for NBC and CBS affiliates across North Dakota. As an undergraduate, Phil also did a reporting residency at the NBC station in Topeka, Kansas, and served as news director of the Northwestern News Network. His real estate articles have been published in the business sections of the Daily Herald, the Northwest Indiana Times and the Chicago Journal. Since producing “Digital Trails” with Meredith Mazzotta, his ability to spot surveillance cameras has become a talent that drives his friends crazy.

Jessica Bernstein-Wax Jessica Bernstein-Wax graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Modern Thought & literature. After college she moved to New York City, where she designed DVD menus and film title sequences for four years. At Medill, Jessica participated in a group consulting project for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and covered telecommunications for the Medill News Service. After working as an intern for the Associated Press' Madrid bureau this fall, Jessica will spend the winter in Washington D. C. finishing her masters degree.
	Bláthnaid Healy Currently a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism, Bláthnaid Healy graduated with a degree in music from University College Dublin in 2004. While in graduate school Bláthnaid covered the immigration and homeland security beat and later the manufacturing beat for the Medill News Service in Chicago. Bláthnaid also covered Washington for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, a regional paper in South Carolina. A native of Ireland, Bláthnaid is a regular contributor to the New York-based newspaper the Irish Echo. She also serves as advisory editor for the Musicology Review, an academic journal she co-founded.
	Kathryn Heinz Kathryn Heinz recently graduated with her Master's degree from the Medill School. During her graduate program, she worked as the Washington correspondent for KTKA-TV, 6 News Lawrence, Aspen Public Radio and the Waterloo Courier. Prior to attending Medill, she held internships at the CNN Chicago bureau and WCIA-TV. She received her bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and political science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Kathryn particularly enjoys political and investigative reporting and is thankful for the opportunity to be a part of the News 21 project.
	Faith Okpotor Faith Okpotor is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She covered Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and City Hall for the Medill News Service. Her stories were published in the Northwest Indiana Times, Chicago Journal, Daily Southtown, Chicago Defender and the Austin Weekly News. Faith also produced and reported for the Northwestern News Report, which airs on Chicago PBS affiliate WYCC. Prior to Medill she worked at the Washington bureaus of both NBC and ABC News, as a contributing writer for the Prince Georges Sentinel and as a Radio and Television News Director’s Foundation Capitol Hill intern. She graduated from Hampshire College in 2004 with a self-designed concentration in microbiology and creative writing.

	Ellen Shearer, coordinator Ellen Shearer is the William F. Thomas Professor at the Medill Schooland assistant dean for Medill’s Washington Program -- Medill News Service. She led the news service’s Y Vote 2000: Politics of a New Generation project to cover the presidential campaigns in ways that will engage young adults. She also led major reporting and research projects in 1996 and 2000 on why Americans don’t vote. She is co-author of the book “Nonvoters: America’s No-Shows,” has written chapters in five other books and is a regular contributor to “The American Editor” magazine. She is curator of the Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting on the News, coordinates judging for the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual awards and is a member of the board of the Washington Press Club Foundation.
	Mary Coffman, coordinator Mary Coffman is an associate professor of broadcast journalism at Medill and co-director of Medill News Service in Washington. She has supervised students on major team reporting projects including an in-depth look at lobbyists, direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, and an examination of obesity in America. She also directed broadcast students in coverage of Campaign 2000, including the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. During the spring quarters of 2001 and 2004 she led Medill’s Global Journalism two-week seminar in Paris. Coffman came to Medill in 1994 after twenty years in television news as a reporter, producer and manager.
	Stephen Henn, investigative editor For the past two years, Stephen Henn has spent much of his time on an award-winning investigation of congressional travel and ethics abuses. That project, a collaboration between Medill News Service and the public radio show Marketplace, laid bare the systematic abuse of privately sponsored congressional trips. Prior to focusing on Congress, Henn did ground-breaking work on the role of private military contractors in abuses at Abu Ghraib. He worked for several daily newspapers before joining the staff of WAMU, Washington’s public radio affiliate, in 1999. In 2000, he joined Marketplace’s Washington bureau, covering Congress and the White House, although he’d been a regular contributor since 1996, when he reported from Zimbabwe. In late 2001 he founded the show’s Work and Family Desk, and in 2004 he helped launch an investigative collaboration with American Radio Works.
	Rich Gordon, Web coordinator Associate Professor Rich Gordon is chair of the Newspapers and New Media Department at Medill and director of the graduate new media program. Before joining Medill six years ago, he served as new media director for The Miami Herald. He has worked as a reporter and editor for The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post and The Miami Herald. At all three papers, he helped lead the newsroom's computer-assisted reporting projects.
	Brian Dennis, assistant Web coordinator Brian Dennis is an assistant professor at Northwestern University, jointly appointed in Medill's new media program and the Engineering Department's EECS Department. He has a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his post-graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2000 he joined Medill's faculty. Within Medill he has introduced, promoted and advocated Web-based authoring and syndication tools in journalism.