Grambs Miller Aronson, artist, calligrapher and printmaker, is the illustrator
of more than 30 books and is noted for illustrations for the magazines Glamour,
Vogue, Charm and Seventeen. A long-time activist, she is the archivist of James
Aronson's papers and those of the National Guardian.
Christopher Cory is Director of Communications at Pace University. He was formerly
a correspondent, Boston news bureau chief and writer for Time magazine; Knight
Fellow at Stanford University, 1972-3; Managing Editor of Psychology Today; and
Director of Public Information for the Carnegie Council on Children.
Steven Gorelick draws upon a background in media studies, sociology, and criminology
to examine media coverage of crime and violence, with special emphasis on the
impact of high-profile acts of violence on communities, media institutions and
the fabric of social life. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Crime
and Delinquency, the Media Studies Journal of the Freedom Forum at Columbia University,
and Children's Beat: A Journal of Media Coverage. His most recent project is
a study of the journalist as perpetrator, an examination of cases from Nazi Germany
to Rwanda in America and the ways in which media institutions and journalists
have been active participants in genocide and human rights violations.
Marya Grambs is a long-time organizer, activist, and founder of community-based
organizations having to do with women's and girls' issues, health, and poverty.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, she co-founded La Casa de las Madres, one of the
first shelters for abused women in the United States; the Women's Building, the
only women-owned and women-operated community center in the country; The Women's
Foundation of California, one of the first, largest and most influential of the
women's funds nationwide; and the Girls After School Academy for African American
girls living in public housing. She now lives in Hawaii where she is active in
women's philanthropy and on several community boards.
Joanne Grant (in memorium), author of Ella Baker: Freedom Bound
(Wiley and Sons, 1998), Black Protest: History, Documents and Analyses (Ballantine,
1998) and
Confrontation on Campus (New American Library, 1969), was producer/director
of the award-winning documentary film, "Fundi: The Ella Baker Story." nationally
broadcast on PBS. She is a former reporter for the National Guardian, news
director of radio station WBAI and editorial assistant to W.E.B. Du Bois. A member
of
the Aronson Committee since its founding, she died on Jan. 10, 2005.
Kathy Kadane is a journalist and former congressional investigator based in Washington
D.C. She was the first recipient of the Aronson Prize in 1990 for her work exposing
the secret U.S. support for the Indonesian army in mass murders in 1965 that
destroyed the Indonesian communist party and brought the dictator, Suharto, to
power. Prior to publication of her work, the US government had denied any involvement
in the killings of an estimated half million people. Her investigative work was
subsequently cited in the State Dept's official series, Foreign Relations of
the United States (Vol. XXVI, 1964-1968) when documents describing the U.S. covert
role were declassified and published in 2001. She has consulted on investigative
stories for Newsweek, the New York Times and the L.A. Times. Since 9/11, she
has worked as Seymour Hersh's researcher in his series for the New Yorker Magazine
on the Bush administration's war on terror and the war in Iraq.
Peter Parisi is an associate professor, Film and Media Studies, Hunter College,
City University of New York And Director of the James Aronson Awards for Social
Justice Journalism. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor and free-lance
magazine writer. His research interests include news narrative, particularly
the portrayal of marginalized communities in the press, and the representation
of race and ethnicity in popular culture. His articles have appeared in such
publications as Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journalism and Mass Communication
Quarterly, Urban Geography, The Howard Journal of Communication and The New Jersey
Journal of Communication. Parisi will be on sabbatical for Fall 2008-Spring 2009. During that
time Blanca Vazquez will act as interim coordinator of the award.
Robin Reisig is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at
Columbia University. She was an op-ed page editor for New York Newsday and Newsday;
reporter for the Village Voice, The Washington Post, the American Lawyer, and
The Southern Courier. She has covered the civil rights movement in Alabama, desegregation
in Boston, the movement against the Vietnam War and the women's movement, and
has done investigative reporting about government and journalism. Her articles
have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Life, The New York Times, (MORE),
Ramparts, and other magazines.
John J Simon is a long-time book editor, publisher, and public radio and television
producer. He served as executive editor at Random House for Vintage Books and
the Modern Library, executive editor of Times Books, editorial director of Schocken
Books, and Monthly Review Press. Currently he is a director of Monthly Review
Foundation and a member of the publications committee for Monthly Review Press.
He has also been a producer at WNET/13, New York and General Manager of Pacifica
radio's WBAI.
Alice Slater, President of the Global Resource Action Center
for the Environment (GRACE) which forms links between the research, policy, and
grassroots communities
to promote solutions to preserve the future of the planet. She is a founder
of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear
weapons
and serves on the NYC Bar Association's Committee on International Security
Affairs. She was the Associate Producer of "After Hiroshima: Remembrance, Reflection,
and the Future," for WNET and other PBS stations, and has written articles,
op-eds, and letters which appeared in numerous periodicals including The New
York Times, Los Angeles Times, and International Herald Tribune.
Ida Susser, a professor of anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center
of the City University of New York, has been working in southern Africa on questions
of gender, HIV/AIDS and collective action since 1992 with support from National
Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institute of Health and a MacArthur
Fellowship in Research and Writing. She conducted research in Puerto Rico on
social movements and the exportation of health hazards and in New York City on
poverty, homelessness and working class resistance. Her selected publications
include: Wounded Cities (Berg, 2003, co-edited with Jane Schneider), Medical
Anthropology in the World System (Bergin and Garvey, 2nd Edition, 2004, co-authored
with Hans Baer and Merrill Singer), AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean (Westview
1997 co-edited) and Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood
(Oxford 1982). She was awarded the SANA prize for Distinguished Achievement in
the Critical Study of North America and is President-elect of the American Ethnological
Society.
Blanca Vázquez holds a Masters of Science in Journalism from the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism and is the founding editor of CENTRO,
Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. She was a
2002-2003 Revson Fellow at Columbia University and holds a second masters degree
in education
from the City University of New York. She was formerly Web Site Editor and
Senior Project Curator for three collections of independent film and video:
Viewing
Race, After 9.11: Videos that Promote Knowledge, Understanding and Tolerance
and the NVR Human Rights Video Project in New York City. She currently teaches
in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College and has been
published in SOULS, A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society,
Center
for Contemporary Black History, Columbia University, the Daily News VIVA Magazine
and in the Oral History Review. For Fall 2008-Spring 2009, Vazquez will act as interim coordinator of
the award, while Peter Parisi is on sabbatical.
Diana Powell Ward, is editor and grants coordinator
at the Lubin School of Business of Pace University and a former editor
for special projects at Doubleday and Co.
|
