Emily Ann Bomersback
Indiana University, School of Journalism
Emily Ann Bomersback
graduated from Purdue University with an Undergraduate Degree in Mass
Communications and English, with a focus was on Advertising, and Entertainment
Marketing. During her Undergraduate career, she gained experience by working
for Frankel Brand Marketing in Chicago, IL., Interlochen Center for the Arts in
Interlochen, MI. and Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, Colorado.
Upon graduation, she moved to
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany where she was employed by the Department of
Defense and helped with the development of marketing strategies for a resort
and adjoining ski lodge in the Bavarian Alps. Currently, Emily is a Graduate
student at Indiana University, working towards a Master’s
degree in Journalism with a concentration in International Studies. Her main
research interests focus on how the media shapes consumer habits, specifically
those geared toward travel and tourism.
Megan Gregg
Emerson College, Department of
Journalism
Megan Gregg is a second year
graduate student in the Journalism program at Emerson College in Boston. She
holds the position of Co-News Director for the college’s television station,
WEBN – TV. Outside her studies, Gregg works as a writer for the ABC local news
affiliate in Boston, WCVB – Channel 5. Prior to enrolling at Emerson, she spent
six years living and working in San Francisco, CA. Originally from the Boston
area, Gregg completed her undergraduate studies at Tufts University and the
School of Museum of Fine Arts. Upon finishing her education, Gregg hopes to gain
employment as a television news producer. Aside from her professional
accomplishments, she enjoys traveling and has a serious interest in
photography.
Artis Henderson
University of Maryland, Philip Merrill College
of Journalism
Artis Henderson is based in Dakar, Senegal, where she
reports for the West Africa bureau of the Associated Press. She has won two
Florida Press Association awards, and her “Modern Love” piece was recently
published in The New York Times. Henderson has visited 20 countries, and she
hopes to build a career as a foreign correspondent. She has an undergraduate
degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a graduate degree from Columbia
University’s School of Journalism.
Kerry Davis is a multimedia journalism master’s
student at the University of Maryland, College Park who will graduate in May
2011.She covered everything from house fires and mobsters in her previous line
of work as a local news TV reporter in Fargo, N.D. and Providence, R.I., before
deciding to pursue a master’s degree. Davis grew up in Beulah, N.D., a small
town from the Midwestern U.S. where coal mining, farming and ranching were the
major forms of employment. She is the co-president of her journalism college’s
student association. Davis enjoys telling people’s stories with video, audio
and photos.
Stephen Nessen
Columbia University, Graduate School of
Journalism
Stephen Nessen is a
digital producer and reporter at WNYC (New York Public Radio), where he reports
stories for on air and the Web, shoots photos, edits, and manages the Web site.
Prior to that, he was a general assignment reporter for the New York Post, he
produced podcasts for the New York Times and he was a
producer at the NPR show StoryCorps. In addition,
he’s freelanced for various local newspapers, the New York Times, the British
music magazine Record Collector, and the public radio show Pacific Time. Prior
to his life in journalism he was a teacher at a university in Harbin and
Xiamen, China and was an IELTS examiner. He also hosted an English language
radio show in Harbin on Taxi Driver Radio.
Spencer Neustadt
Emerson College, Department of Journalism
Spencer Neustadt is working toward a master’s
degree in broadcast journalism at Emerson College. He spent a few months living
in Thailand and Cambodia after receiving his bachelor’s degree in acting and
theatre studies from Emerson as well. The experience greatly influenced his
choice to pursue foreign correspondence. Neustadt started his undergraduate
degree at San Francisco State University, in Asian American studies, before
graduating from Emerson. Recently, he maintained a blog and newsletter for a
performing arts company in San Francisco, California, and interned as a story
editor for a major motion picture company in Los Angeles.
Holly Nunn
University of Maryland, Philip Merrill College
of Journalism
Holly Nunn is a master’s student in Public
Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of
Journalism. She earned a bachelor’s in Government and International Politics
from George Mason University, with minors in gender studies and creative
writing. Nunn hopes to join her interests in women’s issues and travel to cover
women in war zones. She is currently working on a project covering the issue of
food access in Baltimore.
Mark Oltmanns
University of California, Berkeley, Graduate
School of Journalism
Mark Oltmanns is a
first-year graduate student of journalism and Asian Studies at UC-Berkeley. He
grew up in and around Chicago and received his undergraduate degree from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison with majors in Political Science, Asian Studies
and International Studies. After graduating, Mark moved to Bangkok, Thailand
where he taught English, received a Blakemore Fellowship to study advanced
Thai, and worked as a translator in a central police station. He has extensive
experience abroad, including five years in Southeast Asia where he reported on
security issues in the region. He has covered political unrest in Myanmar,
landmines in Cambodia, and insurgency in southern Thailand. Mark speaks Thai
and French and is currently studying Indonesian.
Devon Petley
New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism
Institute
Devon Petley is a
graduate student at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
studying video and multimedia journalism. He work has
appeared with Dateline NBC, NYCTV, and NYU. He focuses on long-form video
journalism and overseas reporting, with an interest in making hard news stories
accessible through the web. He is currently finishing a thirty
minute piece on amateur boxing in New York City, a feature length piece
on coal mining in China, and is beginning pre-production work on a new documentary
about the Afghanistan War, all through his production company, Aeterno Productions. He lives in Queens, New York.
Bolanle Omisore
New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism
Institute
Bolanle “Bola” Omisore
is a multimedia journalist and a master’s candidate at New York University’s
journalism school. Before starting at NYU, Bola worked at Black Entertainment
Television (BET) in digital media and interned on Capitol Hill. Since
matriculating at NYU, Bola has interned for ABC News on the show Nightline, has
been a freelance video journalist for the New York Times, and is still
currently at ABC News. Though her interests are broad, Bola has recently been
very interested in international renewable energy projects and sustainable
development.