Our Team

Peter Dunn, Executive Director

Peter Dunn has been a reporter for the Chronicle Publishing Company and the Washington Bureau of the Dallas Times Herald and worked as an executive coach, consultant and trainer for several organizations, including with the Vice President of Sales, the Director of International Sales and other executives at Google. He has been a business owner, managing two retail stores in Massachusetts; a publications specialist for the Inter-American Foundation in Washington, D.C.; a reporter; a cook; a dishwasher and a housepainter.

In addition, he has volunteered for numerous nonprofit organizations, including After School Kids, Earthworks, the Harvard Square Business Association’s Board of Directors, the Massachusetts Volunteer Network, the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and the Washington-area Little League.

He received his B.A. in International Law, Organization and Relations from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he also received a Latin American Studies Certificate and an Honors Certificate in International Business Diplomacy. He is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute, and is a Certified Professional and Personal Coach (CPPC).

Vince Winkel, Senior Editor

Vince Winkel was the Managing Editor of Public Interactive - Public Radio International's subsidiary that provides web platforms and content for 110 public radio and TV stations around the country - for its first five years of existence. Prior to that, he was the operating editor of the Christian Science Monitor’s award-winning website, csmonitor.com.

Winkel later worked at Marketplace as web editor and producer. He currently is the media editor and managing editor of BMW Motorcycle Owners of America's magazine and website.

He has also worked for NPR, CNN, CBS and BBC as a reporter. His coverage of AIDS, political issues, education, children, science, music and the environment have earned him major awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists, the International Radio Festival of New York, the Gabriel Awards and more.

Tom Regan, Senior Advisor

Tom Regan has the distinction of founding the first online news website in Canada, which was only the sixth in North America, in 1994 while working at the Halifax Daily News. He also had primary responsibility in 1995 for creating the Christian Science Monitor’s website, csmonitor.com, one of the top news organizations in America. Regan was also responsible for its day-to-day operations, serving as Supervising Editor. The site has won two Eppy awards for Best Online Newspaper service and a Digital Edge award for Best Online News Service, both in the site’s circulation category.

Regan is currently the Executive Director of the Online News Association. He also writes columns on terrorism and security and on technology for the Monitor, and edits the front page of the Boston Globe’s website, boston.com, once per week. He recently worked for NPR as head of the NPR News Blog.

Regan has received a Nieman fellowship from Harvard and has won second place for online column writing from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for his blog “My American Life.” He also helped create and design the website of the Portland (Maine) Press-Herald.

Yvonne S. Lee, Senior Editor

Yvonne S. Lee has worked as an editor and producer for the Cable News Network (CNN). There she interviewed high-ranking officials such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Senators John Kerry and Hilary Rodham Clinton. Lee brought CNN to a historic interview high mark by securing and conducting interviews with U.S. Supreme Court Justices Kennedy, Ginsberg and Breyer. She also actively managed coverage of hostile zones in Iraq.

While at CNN, Lee and her team won an Emmy for their coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon. She received the John Davidoff Journalism Fellowship and received the CDC Knight Public Health Journalism Fellowship.

Lee’s experience includes writing and editing for the Cambodia Daily, based in Phnom Penh, where she wrote a series of investigative stories on Cambodian sex crimes.

Jim Scripps, Senior Editor

Jim Scripps recently worked as Managing Editor of the Tahoe Daily Tribune in California. He oversaw content for the daily paper and two magazines and wrote all of the paper’s editorials as well as a weekly column.

Scripps has won numerous awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and from the Nevada Press Association for business coverage, public service, editorial and column writing, and for general excellence.

He served as an editor for the Sierra Sun, where he directed editorial content and managed staff. He reported business activities and covered crime and courts for the Nevada Appeal.

Jenni Kulp, Marketing and Copy Editor Manager

Jenni Kulp previously worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer, covering government, nonprofits, crime and features. In 2006, she was a recipient of a Hoosier State Press Award for business news coverage. She has been the recipient of several photography awards.

Kulp has done marketing at the headquarters of a manufacturing firm, where she implemented promotions, created graphics and marketing materials and worked with sales reports. She has also worked in television production.

She received her B.A. in Communications from Indiana University. Additionally, she works as a wedding and fine art photographer and has volunteered doing public relations and marketing for non-profits and arts organizations in her community.

Nancy Weil, Senior Advisor

Nancy Weil is a journalist who has spent the last decade working for IDG News Service, the world’s leading IT newswire, where she is currently Assistant News Editor. She edits the weekly staff column WorldBeat and contributes breaking news stories and analysis to the newswire. Prior to that, she spent seven years as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida covering education, courts, crime and other stories.

Weil also worked at The Southern Illinoisan for seven years, a regional daily newspaper, where she wrote features, covered higher education, prisons and veterans' issues. She spent a year at her hometown newspaper, the Granite City Press-Record, in Illinois.

Weil has won numerous journalism awards over the years, including one when she was part of a team at the St. Petersburg Times that won a Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for coverage of a racially motivated murder and its aftermath.

Janet Falkenstein, Contributing Editor

Janet Falkenstein has held a variety of writing, editing, and management positions spanning the public communications field. Her experience includes copywriting direct mail pieces, sales promotion and marketing materials; marketing work in educational communications; technical writing and assorted freelance writing assignments.

Josh Purinton, Chief Technical Director

Josh Purinton is a senior developer at Athena Health and is the technical lead for the eligibility-checking system of their flagship Web-based practice management software. As president of his own consulting company, he has served as the chief technical director for DailySource.org, helping to design the site architecture, hire developers for the project and advise on site problems. His consulting has also led him to writing a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol management application in Ruby on Rails for a broadband Internet service provider, in addition to other system development roles.

Previously Purinton worked for BBN Planet and Genuity, where he wrote tools to manage Genuity's data centers and Internet connectivity services.

Joe Gold, Front Page Editor

Joe Gold is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and the recipient of several awards for his work, including awards in writing from the Arizona Press Club and Tucson Tops.

He has worked as a reporter for the Arizona Daily Sun covering politics, technology, courts, civil rights and urban planning, a web senior editor for OneChannel.net, a senior copywriter and a marketing director. He currently owns a small ad agency and is a stringer for the Associated Press.

Gold received his B.A. in Journalism from the University of Arizona and did graduate studies at San Francisco State University.

Jasmine Jernberg, Front Page Editor

Jasmine Jernberg currently reports for the Baltimore Sun and has been a freelance reporter for Unwind!, The Bowie Blade, and Annapolis Capitol magazines. She is currently a Journalism major at the University of Maryland.

Jernberg studied classical violin and played with the Senior Youth Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for three years. She also participated in the People to People Student Ambassador Program, traveling to Australia. Jernberg has volunteered with the Girl Scouts of America, the American Cancer Society, and the Chesapeake Wildlife Sanctuary.

Tom Moran, Front Page Editor

Tom Moran has worked as a reporter for The Star Tribune and The Minnesota Daily, both in Minneapolis. He also worked in design production at The Minnesota Daily. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in Journalism.

Moran is a previous member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Honors Society and volunteered with People Serving People.

Ryan K. Dowse, Front Page Editor

After graduating from the University of New Hampshire, magna cum laude, Ryan Dowse was employed by a daily New Hampshire newspaper, The Telegraph, Inc, where he was responsible for copy editing wire and staff stories, page design and proofing.

His work has been published in the UNH literary magazine, and he has reported for The New Hampshire. Additionally, he was inducted into four honor societies for outstanding academic performance: National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Sigma Alpha Lambda (2003); Golden Key (2004); and Phi Beta Kappa (2005).

Rachel Wright, Front Page Editor

While at UNC-Asheville, Rachel Wright worked for The Blue Banner, the university newspaper, first as a feature writer and then as a copy editor. She also interned at the North Carolina Council for Women and Domestic Violence Commission during the spring of 2006. She received a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

During 2007, Wright resided in Pistoia, Italy, where she taught American English to high school students, and worked as a language assistant for middle school students. She is a certified TEFL instructor.

Brian Levine, Front Page Editor

Brian Levine is a graduate of East Carolina University and the 2007-2008 winner of the Bachelor of Science Outstanding Graduate Award from the School of Communication faculty. Levine's skills include research, writing, reporting, editing, audio production, digital video and photography. His photography has been recognized by the National Press Photographer's Association. A member of both the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors, Levine is pursuing a career in investigative, computer-assisted reporting and public service journalism. This fall, he will be attending graduate school at ECU where he will work toward his Master’s degree studying national security issues.

Binal Ghelani, Front Page Editor

Binal Ghelani is a journalist who has been part of the edit team that launched Times of India's Mumbai Mirror Online, where she also served as senior correspondent and coordinator. Additionally, she was also a correspondent and copy editor for Times of India's supplements Downtown Plus and Ngage and campus coordinator for MTV-India.com.

Her work has appeared in major publications including The Times of India, Cookbook, and Femina.

She received a B.A. in Art History and English from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She also volunteers as an ESL tutor for Yes! Reading and is a computer instructor for senior citizens.

Zahra Jaferi, Front Page Editor

Zahra Jaferi reporting began with the publication of her first newspaper article 15 years ago. She currently covers a crime beat for the USA Voice and interns for the Student Operated Press.

Jaferi helped launch Bibi Magazine, a national fashion magazine and served as an editor. She has also served at various newspapers including the Rider News, the Daily Cougar and Mercer County Woman doing news, features, editorials and layout.

Stephanie White-Olson, Front Page Editor

For three years, Stephanie White-Olson was a staff writer, layout editor and online editor for The Lewis Flyer, Lewis University’s student newspaper. In 2006, the paper received an honorable mention at the Illinois newspaper conference.

White-Olson is an accomplished swimmer: she has been a four time GLIAC Conference top 8 swimmer, and a three time winner of the GLIAC Swimmer of the Week award. She anticipates receiving a B.A. in Journalism, with a minor in Business Administration in August 2008.

Andrew McMillan, Front Page Editor

Andrew McMillan is a graduate of Oberlin College, with degrees in English and Creative Writing. His work has appeared in various publications, ranging from Cleveland Scene Magazine to Revolt Media.

McMillan’s web design experience has enabled him to run his own Web site featuring his journalistic work. He has worked as a teacher and public relations representative in the past.

Walton Chiu, Front Page Editor

Prior to his current position, Walton volunteered as a Content Editor for DailySource.org. His past employment has included acting as an editorial assistant for Elixigen and as a research assistant for Boston University’s Computational Cell Biology Project.

Chiu has also worked as an emergency medical technician and as a homecare counselor.

Carlos Wall, Content Editor

Carlos Wall has worked as an assistant editor for BA Magazine in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and currently works for Sports and Entertainment Today Magazine.

Wall received his B.A. in Journalism from Georgia State University. He earned his A.A. from Georgia Perimeter College.

Max Miller, Content Editor

Max Miller graduated from Colorado State University in 2006, where he received his B.A. in History. While attending CSU, Miller received various awards and scholarships including the Advanced Placement Scholar Award in May 2004, Colorado Distinguished Scholars in August 2004. In addition, he was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the history honors society, in December 2006. He is also a member of the National Honors Society and was a recipient of the International Baccalaureate Diploma in May 2004.

Miller worked for the Lakewood Spectator, Rocky Mountain Holiday Tours LLC, Barnes & Noble and has been an umpire for the Jefferson County Junior Baseball League.

Dana Myles, Content Editor

Dana Myles is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Pupil, a college lifestyle magazine written by and for college students. Pupil was featured during the National Bookseller Association’s Expo in Chicago during the summer of 2004. As an editorial assistant for Modern Luxury Inc., she wrote for Chicago Social and Frontdesk Chicago. She received a certificate in Print Journalism from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003.

Myles is currently a real estate paralegal for a petroleum company. She plans to sit for the New Mexico bar in early 2009. She received her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law and her B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkley.

Adriana Danaila, Content Editor

Adriana Danaila has been a senior writer for Aripi and Frank magazines. She was awarded the best young journalist prize in the city of Gala, earlier in her career while living in Romania, where she wrote for the metro daily newspaper Viata Libera. She received an Honorable Mention in the national Olympiad of French Literature. She has volunteered for Help the Homeless and the Red Cross.

Denes Juhasz, Content Editor

Denes Juhasz is currently a Political Science major attending Ashford University and plans to continue his education at the City University of New York in the spring of 2009. He currently works for both Disney, in taking reservations, and Apple, in sales.

Eric Connolly, Photo Editor

Eric Connolly has worked in various photography positions while attending Virginia Tech. He has been the director of photography and a staff photographer for the college’s student publication. He has also served as the photography editor for The Bugle yearbook and for the Collegiate Times newspaper. He received his B.S. in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise in 2007.

Connolly received several awards for his work including: the Virginia Press Association Newspaper Contest, 1st Place Spot News Photo in 2007 and 3rd Place Sports Photo in 2006; and Editor & Publisher’s Photo of the Week in 2007.

He is currently the multimedia director for the Healing Hands Foundation and in the past, has worked on the Mbara Water Projects in Kenya, Tau Beta Pi’s Hurricane Katrina Relief in Mississippi and for Fundacion Jatun Sacha, Congal Biological Station in Ecuador.

Bryan Panhorst, Photo Editor

Bryan Panhorst has worked as a photographer for numerous publications and organizations, including The Daily Free Press, The Agganis Arena at Boston University and Zaio Corporation. He has also worked for New Hampshire Public Radio, assisting in election coverage. His work has given him the opportunity to engage in many different types of photography, ranging from architectural photography to the coverage of concerts and sporting events.

He is a graduate of Boston University with a B.S. in Journalism and a minor in Political Science.

Destinei Waddy, Photo Editor

Destinei Waddy is a staff photographer for her college newspaper, an employee at Airtran Airways and a photographer for Photogenic Inc. In the past, she has worked for Six Flags of America and was a video library assistant during an internship for CNN.

She is currently attending Bowie State University, where she anticipates receiving her B.A. in Communications in December.

Stacey Russell, Copy Editor, Associate Reviewer and Fundraising

Stacey Russell currently works as an executive assistant for a luxury hotel in Washington D.C. She received her B.A. in Legal Studies, with a minor in Psychology, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. While in college, she received the Shed Shepard Award for Academic Excellence and Community Service and volunteered as a Girl Scouts leader.

Nyra S. White, Copy Editor

Nyra S. White received her M.A. in Journalism, with a concentration in Public Relations, from the University of North Texas in Denton, TX, in 2005. In 2000, she received her B.A. in Business Administration, with a concentration in Marketing, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. While in college, she was an event coordinator intern for the “Battle of the Bayou” of Bayou Classic 1999, volunteered for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Acadiana’s “Bowl for Kids Sake” and was a member of the Rotoract Club. She was inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta and Sigma Gamma Mu freshman honors societies. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated and was a member of the National Association of Black Journalists during graduate school.

White is an account manager for Czarnowski Exhibit Specialists, where she manages exhibit details and logistics for corporate tradeshows and a Web order system for portable tradeshows. She has previously worked as an account manager and an account coordinator for other exhibit companies.

She has volunteered in her community by working with the “Back to School” school supply giveaway and at a local soup kitchen. She has also been a public relations volunteer for the National Urban League National Convention and has been involved with Oprah’s Big Give Night at the Atlanta Braves Game. She is currently volunteering with the United Way of Metro Atlanta V.I.P.

Camille Tuutti-Winkler, Copy Editor

Camille Tuutti-Winkler has interned at The Washington Times and Washington Post Newsweek Interactive and is currently attending American University, where she is studying Print Journalism. She has completed programs at Shenandoah University and the School of Media in Stockholm, where she focused on print and international journalism, respectively.

She was a reporter for Swedish News Inc. in New York and also served as a translator and information officer at the Embassy of Cyprus.

Brianna Wahlstrom, Editorial Assistant

Brianna Wahlstrom is currently attending California State University, Long Beach, where she is double majoring in Journalism and Political Science. She is in the top ten percent of her Journalism major and was recently inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha, the National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication. She also volunteered intermittently for the Red Cross in her hometown for two years.

Aimee Mikrut, Editorial Assistant

Aimee Mikrut is currently an online proofreader for Project Gutenberg and works with the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, where two abstracts for the articles she has edited have gone on to their international conferences in Lisbon in 2007 and Hong Kong in 2008.

Mikrut currently works as a senior accounts receivable specialist for a large food company. She received her B.A. in 2005, double majoring in Psychology and Criminology, with a concentration in Sociology.

Trish Alsalaymeh, Editorial Assistant

Trish Alsalaymeh currently works for the government. In the past, she has worked in sales. She received an M.B.A., with a concentration in Economics, from Roosevelt University and a B.S. in Business Administration, concentrating in International Business, from Franklin University. In the future, she would like to write science fiction books.

Melissa Colabella, Editorial Assistant

Melissa Colabella is a freelance writer, specializing in women’s interests, beauty, and the health sector. She is currently an Esthetician and studying Cosmetology at the Aveda Institute.

Colabella previously worked as a communications supervisor and as a compliance analyst for a well-known mutual fund distributor. She received a B.S. in Business Administration, with a concentration in Marketing, from Fordham University in 2003.

Andrew Scott, Editorial Assistant

Andrew Scott is currently attending the University of California-Los Angles, where he is double-majoring in Economics and Political Science and minoring in Spanish. He has previously interned with Credit Suisse, doing research, data processing, and presenting. He has also worked in the restaurant industry.

Scott has volunteered his administrative skills at an architectural institute and has also volunteered as a camp leader.

Jarid Faubel, Promotion and Community Relations

While studying at Carnegie Mellon University, Jarid Faubel worked to market the CMU newspaper, Dramat, where he helped increase the circulation of the newspaper significantly. He received a B.F.A. in Acting from CMU. He received the Ohio State Inspiration Award and was a state winner for his extemporaneous speech.

Faubel has worked with Rotary Meals on Wheels, Shakespeare for Kids, CMU Dramat, and has done fundraising for Soweto.

Robin Mulder, Marketing and Promotion and Community Relations

Robin Mulder is a student at William Paterson University, majoring in Communications, with a concentration in Journalism and Public Relations. She currently serves as comics editor of The Beacon. She has also worked as a photographer and has had her photographs displayed in various showcases.

She has had a number of achievements in poetry as well. Her poetic work has been published in Great Poems of the Western World, alongside other outlets. She was given the Editor’s Choice Award for Achievement in Poetry 2007 and 2008 and had one of her poems recorded on a CD set collection of poetry.

Tanya Darst, Marketing, Fundraising & Editorial Assistant

Tanya Darst obtained her M.A. in Sociology from the University of Central Missouri and her B.S. in Sociology and Psychology from Southwest Missouri State University. She has a minor in Technical Writing. She has previously been a volunteer reader in a program for college students.

Carmi Burress, Marketing & Editorial Assistant

Carmi Burress is a graduate of the University of Texas, San Antonio and has worked for multiple hospitals and organizations. She is currently employed with St. Luke’s Hospital in San Antonio, Tex., as a respiratory therapist.

Dea Natalie Surjadi, Marketing

Dea Surjadi is currently attending the University of Missouri, pursuing a B.J. in Journalism. She previously attended Diablo Valley College where she was a reporter for the school’s newspaper, The Inquirer.

Surjadi is a member of the Asian American Journalist Organization, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the University of Missouri Griffiths Leadership Society. She has volunteered with the American Cancer Society, Professional Education Organization International, and Sutton Regional Arts at Yuba College.

Katie Hawkinson, Marketing

Katie Hawkinson is a recent graduate of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., where she majored in English and minored in Business Administration. She has studied business ethics, marketing, accounting, business law, management, and economics.

Hawkinson is currently employed as a Guest Service Representative at a salon and day spa, where she is responsible for key communications and business transactions.

Kaila Collins, Marketing

Kaila Collins received a B.B.A., with a concentration in Marketing, from American InterContinental University in 2006. In 2004, she received her A.A. in Fashion Design from the International Academy of Design and Technology.

She is currently an operations associate at a nationally known bank. Previously, she was a freelance visual coordinator for Winston Retail Solutions in New York.

Kristina Hovan, Marketing

Kristina Hovan received a B.S. in business management from the University of Phoenix in 2008. She received an A.A. in 2006 from Cuyahoga Community College, where she graduated magna cum laude.

Hovan is currently a background investigation unit analyst for a regional bank. In 2005, she interned with Walt Disney World.

Robert Pyon, Marketing

Robert Pyon has been a public relations assistant for the University of Washington School Of Law and a public relations intern for Imagio-J.Walter Thompson. He received his B.A. in English, with a concentration in Creative Writing, in 2003 from the University of Washington-Seattle. He is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Golden Key International Honour Society.

Diana Garibay Martinez, Marketing and Graphic Design

Diana Garibay Martinez received an M.B.A. with a concentration on International Management in 2008, from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. In 2003, she received a B.A. in Digital Graphical Design Engineering, from the Centro de Estudios Tecnicos y Superiores.

Previously, Garibay interned as a marketing consultant for Landor Associates Mexico. She has worked for TF Victor and Coroporativo Gary-Gas as a production planner and marketing/communications manager, respectively.

Lindsay Rosewater, Graphic Design

Lindsay Rosewater works for an online stationary card company and is a freelance graphic designer. She received a B.A. in Studio Art, with a minor in Communications, from the University of Denver in 2007.

She studied art in Italy while in college and she previously interned at Walker Fine Art Gallery. She is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.