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FINAL ROUND JUDGES
Sean Cole is a reporter for Inside Out, a documentary unit based at WBUR Radio in Boston. He has also contributed stories to This American Life, Only A Game, All Things Considered, The Next Big Thing, Living on Earth and other shows. Over the course of his career, he has received four regional RTNDA awards and one AP award. Additionally, he is the author of this bio and many others.
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Alan Hall is an independent radio producer with his own London-based company, Falling Tree Productions. Recent credits for BBC Radio include The Workaday World, a major series assessing the state of our working lives, 84 Book Crossing Road, a trans-Atlantic literary adventure and Landscape With Figure, a documentary about World War II’s finest British poet, Keith Douglas. Non-broadcast work includes the production of Tate Modern's extensive audio commentaries and running the Creative Radio segment of Goldsmiths College’s Radio MA.
Hall’s programs have received a number of awards, including the Prix Italia twice, the Prix Bohemia and several Radio Academy Sony Awards. Hall lives in London with his wife, Sarah, and their three children.
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Ben Joravsky is a staff writer for the Reader, a weekly newspaper in Chicago, and the author of several books, including Hoop Dreams.
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Marianne McCune Marianne McCune is a staff reporter for New York Public Radio, WNYC AM and FM. More than a third of New York residents were born in another country and Marianne reports on the resulting cultural, economic, and political links between New York/New Jersey and almost everywhere else on earth. She won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Award for her series Going Home in Handcuffs which follows a group of Pakistanis as they were deported from the United States. She is also the founder of Radio Rookies, an award-winning series of stories written, reported, and produced by New York teenagers.
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Karen Michel is an independent radio producer with a rural background. She's lived and worked in Alaska, Japan, Greenland, Madagascar, and other geographies real and imagined. Her academic training is in visual arts and cross-cultural education. She’s been committed to sound for many years as an audio artist and more recently, as a journalist. Michel has received many awards and fellowships from organizations including the NEA, CPB, and George Foster Peabody Awards. Lately she has been teaching teens with Radio Rookies at WNYC and the Youth Ideas Radio Program in New Haven. Michel is also currently a visiting assistant professor in Media Arts at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She lives in upstate New York with her husband Bob and dog Mingus.
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Dmae Roberts is an award-winning Amerasian playwright and radio producer. Roberts has produced more than 400 features, audio arts pieces and documentaries for NPR and PRI programs. She received the prestigious George Foster Peabody award for her autobiographical radio documentary MEI MEI, A Daughter's Song. Other awards and grants include the CPB, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award, the Casey Medal, the Clarion, Lesbian and Gay Journalists Award, the United Nations Silver, and NFCB Golden and Silver Reels. Her current project is Crossing East, the first Asian American history series on public radio.
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Clayton Brown is a documentary and narrative filmmaker interested in exploring the hidden stories and compelling characters that emerge when people pursue their passions. Brown has received several awards and has had films shown across the country, including the IFP Market in New York for which he was commissioned by Microsoft to make a short film. His documentaries tell the stories of musicians, artists, actors, scientists, and others caught in curious obsessions. He is a co-founder of 137films, which is currently in production on a documentary about Fermilab (the Chicago-area atom-smasher) and the clash between science, politics, and American culture as physicists near the end of a 40-year search for an elusive sub-atomic particle.
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Barbara Calabrese is currently Chair of the Radio Department at Columbia College Chicago and proud to lead a department that includes WCRX 88.1 FM, Columbia’s award-winning student radio station. She established radio documentary and radio theater in the curriculum and teaches courses in radio interviewing, radio theater and voice and articulation. A specialist in communications, Barbara has been an invited speaker at national conferences in the areas of media and the community and the effect of digital technology on broadcast education. Her 15 years of radio experience includes producing public affairs programs for both commercial and non-commercial radio. Currently Barbara is a contributor for the daily magazine show Eight Forty Eight on Chicago Public Radio.
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John Corbett is a writer and producer based in Chicago. He is the author of Extended Play: Sounding Off From John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein (Duke U. Press, 1994), writes frequently about jazz for Down Beat, curates the Unheard Music Series on Atavistic Records, was artistic director of JazzFest Berlin 2002, and is co-director of Corbett vs. Dempsey Art Gallery, which specializes in mid-century art of Chicago. He is co-host of Writer's Bloc, a weekly jazz radio program on WNUR 89.3 FM.
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Andrea DeFotis is a freelance radio producer based in Chicago. Her work has aired on NPR, Chicago Public Radio and the CBS radio network. She helped launch the award-winning programs This American Life and Eight Forty Eight at Chicago Public Radio and was audio editor for the documentary project “CITY 2000.” She’s the recipient of a Peter Lisagor Award and an Illinois Associated Press Award for her radio stories about public housing in Chicago.
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Hillary Frank is a freelance writer and independent radio producer. Her work has aired on This American Life, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Studio 360, Day to Day, and Chicago Matters. She has won awards for her radio stories from the Third Coast International Audio Festival and the National Mental Health Association. Hillary is also the author and illustrator of the novels Better Than Running at Night and I Can’t Tell You. Her third book, Hedonophobia and Other Shades of Fear, will be out in Fall 2006.
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Richard Holland, a sculptor, sound artist and lawyer working in Chicago received his J.D. and M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His most recent work includes exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center and the NOVA Young Art Fair.
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Christopher Kamyszew is the founder and President of the Society for Arts, the Chicago-based non-profit organization promoting cultural exchange between Europe and the States. He is also the founder and honorary chairman of the Polish Film Festival in America, the world’s largest festival of Polish cinema, and founder and president/director of the Chicago International Documentary Festival, one of the U.S.’s largest festivals of documentary films. Kamyszew has received several international honors and awards, and has curated more than 250 exhibitions of European and American art in museums and galleries worldwide.
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Louise Kiernan is a reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune's projects team. Since she joined the Tribune in 1992, she has run the paper's urban affairs team, worked on the Sunday magazine staff, reported from abroad, written a features column and contributed to the newspaper's commentary, books and travel sections. She wrote the lead article in a series that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism and was a Pulitzer finalist in the same category that year for an individual project. She was also a 2005 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Before the Tribune, she worked for small newspapers in Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee.
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Lisa Yun Lee is the Co-Founder & Director of The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, a non-profit organization committed to creating public forums around issues of social justice. She is a part-time faculty member at the School of the Art Institute Chicago, where she teaches critical theory. She recently founded a production company called Promesse de Bonheur that produces beguiling political theater. She is currently serving on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, the Ms. Magazine Advisory Board, the Board of the Chicago Humanities Festival and the Board of Young Chicago Authors. Lisa has most recently published Dialectics of the Body: Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno (Routledge, 2005) (Radio Impact Award)
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Since 1999, Abina Manning has been associate director at Chicago-based Video Data Bank, the largest distributor of artists' video in the U.S. Previously, she was head of Distribution and Exhibition at the Lux Center in the U.K., and was also Director of the Pandaemonium Festival, a major European exhibition presented by London's Institute for Contemporary Art showcasing film, video, gallery installation, and multi-media works. She has participated in many international film and video festivals as a panel member, program curator and advisor, and has collaborated with art venues such as the Tate Modern in London and The Louvre in Paris, on exhibition events.
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Jonathan Messinger is the books editor of Time Out Chicago. He is also the editor of THISisGRAND.org, a website featuring true stories about the CTA. He recently completed a seven-city tour, reading material from the site. Jonathan is also the creator and co-host of The Dollar Store Show, a literary and comedy series featuring performers inspired by junk purchased from a dollar store. He is co-publisher of Featherproof Books, a Chicago-based small press publishing mini-books, novels and short-story collections. His fiction has appeared in numerous local and national literary magazines, most recently in Sleepwalk and Rainbow Curve.
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Julia McEvoy is executive producer of Chicago Public Radio’s special series projects. She also launched the Ear to the Ground mentorship program, which seeks out new voices to contribute to Chicago Public Radio programs. McEvoy has been working in public radio for the last 20 years, both as an independent reporter and documentary producer, and more recently as editor and executive producer of the Chicago Matters series. As executive producer of Chicago Matters, McEvoy has overseen production of work which has brought the station numerous industry awards including a Peabody, a Gracie, and several national Murrows.
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Jay Needham is a sound media artist who embraces a multi-disciplinary approach to arts practice. He received his MFA from The California Institute of the Arts. His radio documentary Listening at the Border as a special presentation at Sonic Interventions in Amsterdam and was part of the Noise Theory Noise #2 conference and exhibition in London in 2004. Blacktop, his narrative work for radio streamed as a part of New Media Scotland’s Resonant Cities program and will be released as a part of Deep Wireless II in 2005 by New Adventures in Sound Art. Jay is a faculty member in the Program in Audio, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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Lisa Pollak is a producer at This American Life. Before joining the staff, she spent seven years as a features writer at the Baltimore Sun, where she won the Pulitzer Prize for features writing in 1997. She's also worked at the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer, and in 1994 she won the Ernie Pyle award for human interest writing. She is a graduate of the University of MIchigan and has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
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Edie Rubinowitz worked at Chicago Public Radio from 1994 to 2001 as a news reporter and also did stints producing Worldview with Jerome McDonnell and Best Game in Town with Cheryl Corley. She has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press and the Chicago Bar Association. She was journalism fellow at the Carter Center and an International Reporting Project (formerly Pew) fellow, based at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C. She has reported from Mexico, Panama and Guyana.
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Adam D. Singer (producer/camera) has been an associate of Chicago’s Kartemquin Films and a member of the independent documentary film community for over fifteen years. He has worked both in the US and internationally as a producer, field producer, cameraman and sound recordist. He began working with Kartemquin on Hoop Dreams in 1989, He produced, with director Steve James, the feature length documentary Stevie (2003) and worked again with Kartemquin on the PBS series The New Americans. He won an Emmy for co-producing Vietnam Long Time Coming (1999). He recently completed producing and shooting, with director Peter Gilbert, With All Deliberate Speed, a feature length documentary about the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation in America. The film will be broadcast on Discovery in May of 2005.
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