Faculty

The ieiMedia faculty below have recently participated, or will participate, in one or more of our program sites. Our faculty bring a blend of study abroad teaching experience and superb professional credentials. Two of our instructors are Pulitzer Prize winning journalists.

Steven D. Anderson, Ph.D. (Multimedia/Video) is a professor of converged media and the director of the School of Media Arts & Design at James Madison University. Prior to entering academe, Anderson was the environmental reporter and weekend weathercaster for KCNC television, a network O&O station in Denver, Colorado. He also worked as a news photographer, weathercaster and news reporter at stations in Fresno, California and Fargo, North Dakota. He is an author of a textbook entitled “Exploring Electronic Media: Chronicles & Challenges” (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing). His websites have won top awards from the Broadcast Education Association (BEA Best of Festival) and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC Best of the Web Competition). Anderson is a former President of the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), the association for electronic media professors and industry professionals. He taught video in Urbino in 2011 and created the Eppy Award-winning website for presentation of student work. He returns to Urbino in 2012.

Ned Balbo received the 2010 Donald Justice Prize, selected by A.E. Stallings, for his third book, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press/WCU Poetry Center). His previous books are Lives of the Sleepers (U. of Notre Dame Press, Ernest Sandeen Prize and ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal) and Galileo’s Banquet. He has also published a chapbook, Something Must Happen (Finishing Line Press). His poems have appeared in Iowa Review, Notre Dame Review, River Styx, Shenandoah, Unsplendid, and many others, his nonfiction has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Die Cast Garden, and JMWW, and his reviews in Antioch Review, Parabola, Pleiades, and Verse. He has received three Maryland Arts Council poetry grants, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize for “Walt Whitman’s Finches: on autobiography and adoption.” “My Father’s Music,” a short memoir on adoptive identity, popular culture, and ethnicity, appears in Creative Nonfiction’s anthology of Italian-American prose, Our Roots Are Deep with Passion (Other Press). Balbo teaches at Loyola University Maryland. He will teach in Armagh in 2012.

Susan Biddle was a Washington Post staff photographer for thirteen years and now freelances for the Post as well as other publications and organizations. She began her career photographing for the Peace Corps and later worked as a staff photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Denver Post. After five years at the Denver Post she left to become a White House photographer documenting the Presidency for the last year of the Reagan administration and all four years of the George H.W. Bush administration. She began working for the Washington Post in 1996. Prior to that she freelanced and her work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Life, National Geographic and other publications worldwide. She has participated in various book projects including Day in the Life of America, Day in the Life of Thailand, Hong Kong – Here Be Dragons, Day in the Life of the American Woman and America at Home. She has won awards with White House News Photographers Association and National Press Photographers Association.

Cindy Burgess, M.A is a Toronto-based journalist with over 20 years of experience in all aspects of the news broadcasting industry – both in front of and behind the camera. She holds a Masters Degree in Journalism and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Western Ontario. Cindy’s innate sense of curiosity and passion for storytelling has served her well in markets across Canada and in the United States. She recently completed six months of freelance work throughout Central America, where her coverage included the constitutional crisis and subsequent military coup in Honduras in July 2009. Cindy teaches journalism courses at Sheridan College and Ryerson University in Canada. Cindy continues to work as a freelance journalist both at home and abroad and is a frequent contributor to the Toronto Star’s travel section. She will teach in Salamanca in 2012.

Francesca Carducci (Italian Language/Interpreter Supervisor) received her degree in Pharmacy at the University of Urbino. She teaches English and is a lecturer (CEL) in the Department of Modern Literature and Philological-Linguistic Sciences at the University of Urbino. She is a member of the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) staff of the faculty of Computer Science and teaches in the English master’s program for Italian primary school teachers offered by the Department of Foreign Languages. Fran is originally from Buffalo, New York, and became interested in content-based teaching methodology as a consequence of her scientific background. She has revised and edited scientific articles to be published in English for years, and has created science and math courses in English for Italian students at almost every level. Francesca truly enjoys teaching both on-line and in the classroom and, after more than 20 years of living and working in Urbino, considers herself a bona fide “Urbinate.” She taught Italian language and supervised interpreters in Urbino in 2009 through 2011 and returns again in 2012.

Dennis Chamberlin (Photography) is an assistant professor of journalism at Iowa State University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist. He has more than 20 years experience as a newspaper and magazine photojournalist and has worked for publications such as TIME, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and National Geographic. Most of his professional career was spent living in Eastern Europe, where he covered the fall of communism and reintegration of Europe for various publications over a 15-year period. He has spent most of his life shooting slide film but is now a strong advocate of the power of multimedia as a storytelling tool and focuses his own work and teaching on multimedia. He taught photography in Urbino in 2009 and 2011 and directed the multimedia program there in 2011.

Bob Ciano has been Art Director or Creative Director of many publications, including Esquire, Redbook, Life Magazine, The New York Times, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Industry Standard, ForbesASAP and Wired Magazine. Along the way he has worked with prominent illustrators, photographers, and writers and has won over 200 design awards. Bob is currently the Creative Director at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA. He teaches at CCA (California College of the Arts) in San Francisco. He has also taught at SVA (School of Visual Arts) in NYC, Kansas University, The Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley and the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. Bob will teach magazine layout in Urbino in 2012.

Andrew Ciofalo (ieiMedia Founder and President) is professor emeritus of communication/ journalism at Loyola College Maryland, where he arrived in 1983 to found what is now The Communication Department. In 2002, he founded the Cagli Program in International Reporting, a multimedia study-abroad program in Cagli, Italy, which laid the foundations for the Institute for Education in International Media. In keeping with his interest in experiential learning, he is the founder of Apprentice House Press, a student-run book publishing company at Loyola University. Prof. Ciofalo, who earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, has taught courses in Travel Writing, Book Publishing, Magazine Publishing, Magazine Writing, and Opinion Writing. He has taught in Cagli (2002-2006, 2008), Armagh (2007) and Urbino (2010 & 2011).

Terri Ciofalo is an Assistant Professor of Stage Management at the University of Illinois and the Assistant Production Manager at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. An expert logistical manager, Terri has toured nationally and regionally with a variety of theatre artists and dance companies as a Production and Stage Manager. Prior to earning her MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 2000, Terri worked as a Communications Operations Manager for T. Rowe Price as well as a freelance Communications Professional writing, editing and designing publications for various non-profit organizations in the Maryland/D.C. area. Terri is happy to blend both her publications background and her logistical management experience and join the faculty as Program Director for the Armagh Project. She will teach in Armagh in 2012.

Doug Cumming, Ph.D. (Reporting) is an associate professor of journalism at Washington & Lee University with 26 years experience at metro newspapers and magazines. Since getting a Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill in mass communications, he has taught multimedia reporting and feature writing at Loyola University-New Orleans and at W&L in Virginia. Earlier, he worked at the newspapers in Raleigh, Providence and Atlanta, was editor of the Sunday Magazine in Providence and helped launch Southpoint monthly magazine in Atlanta. He won a George Polk Award and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. His book The Southern Press came out in 2009, and more recently, he edited and wrote the foreword to Bylines, a selection of magazine articles by his father Joe Cumming, who was Newsweek’s Southern bureau chief in the ’60s and ’70s. He taught Reporting in Urbino in 2011 and returns in 2012. He will also be the program director for the Salamanca program in 2012. Read professor Cumming’s 2011 Urbino blog at: http://docurbino.wordpress.com

Mary D’Ambrosio (Reporting) the founding editor of Big World Magazine, teaches journalism at Columbia University and New York University. A writer specializing in international issues, she has reported from the U.K., Turkey, Italy and Latin America. She was an editor at Global Finance magazine in New York, a reporter for the Associated Press in Venezuela and a correspondent and book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Other credits include Islands, Institutional Investor, Working Woman, Working Mother, Newsday and the Miami Herald. D’Ambrosio directed the NYU journalism institute’s feature syndicate, which placed student stories in professional venues, such as The Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Daily Beast, Worldpress and CNN. She holds a B.S. in magazine journalism from Syracuse University, and an M.Sc. in economic history from the London School of Economics. She serves on the editorial board of Abroad View, a national magazine to foster global education. She edited ieiMedia’s Urbino Now magazine in 2010 and directs the Istanbul program.

Michael Dorsher Ph.D. (Reporting) is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and president of the Fulbright Association-Minnesota Chapter. He was a Fulbright Scholar at McGill University in Montréal in 2008-09. Conversant in French and Spanish, he’s leading a team of journalism students on a multimedia, bilingual reporting trip to Peru in January 2012, and he taught Web design at Harlaxton College in the U.K. in 2008. Before earning a doctorate from the University of Maryland in 1999 and joining the UW-Eau Claire faculty in 2000, he was an award-winning journalist for 20 years, capped by four years as a founding editor of washingtonpost.com. He is the co-author of “Controversies in Media Ethics” (2011, Routledge), its website, “The Encyclopedia of Journalism” (2009, Sage) and dozens of websites with his students. He will teach in Perpignan in 2012.

Michael Gold (Reporting/Writing) has been a writer, editor, and manager at award-winning publications, in print and online. He started his career as a reporter at the Bergen County (NJ) Record and the Boston Herald American. He was a founding writer and editor for Science 80, which won three National Magazine Awards while he was there. In 1986, Gold co-founded Hippocrates, now called Health, where he served as managing editor and executive editor. As a consultant for West Gold Editorial, he helped conceive and launch University Business and Dwell magazines as well as Thrive, an online health network produced by Time, Inc. and AOL. Gold has consulted for Inc, PC World, Consumer Reports, Executive Travel, and others, offering management advice, guiding major renovations, and coaching editorial staff. He has served as the editor of Strings magazine, edited several jazz arranging books for Berklee Press, and helped lead the magazine launch projects and online track for the Stanford Professional Publishing Courses. He is the author of A Conspiracy of Cells, a popular, nonfiction account of a scandal in cancer research. He taught in the 2011 magazine program in Urbino and will return in 2012.

Suzy Hansen (reporting) is a freelance writer who has lived in Istanbul for four years. She has written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, GQ, the New York Times, and many other publications. In 2007, she was the recipient of an Institute of Current World Affairs writing fellowship. Before moving to Istanbul, she was an editor at the New York Observer and Salon.

Ron Hollander (Reporting) has a career divided between teaching and practicing journalism. He has directed and is a professor in the journalism program at Montclair State University (NJ) where he twice won best newspaper adviser from College Media Advisers. Ron had a Fulbright for two years in Beijing where he taught, and wrote for China Daily. He also directs Jewish American Studies, and teaches on the Holocaust and the Press. He won awards reporting for Cablevision TV, and wrote for “CBS This Morning” news anchors including Charles Osgood, Charlie Rose, Bob Schieffer, and Diane Sawyer. He’s been staff reporter on papers from Alaska to Mississippi, including Newsday and NY Post, and had a Knight Fellowship at the Baltimore Sun. Ron was contributing editor at Town & Country, and a travel writer for the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times and SF Chronicle, among others. His book, “All Aboard!” (Workman) was #61 on Amazon, and he’s appeared with Oprah and Tom Snyder. He will direct the Perpignan Program in 2012.

Rachele Kanigel (Executive Director/Reporting) is executive director of ieiMedia and an associate professor of journalism at San Francisco State University. She was a newspaper reporter for 15 years, working for The News & Observer, The Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times. After getting the teaching bug, she went to Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism to earn her master’s degree. She freelances for magazines and websites, including U.S. News & World Report, TIME, Yoga Journal, Prevention, and Lime.com. At SFSU she advises the award-winning Golden Gate [X]press newspaper and teaches multimedia, magazine, media ethics and reporting courses. In 2010 she was awarded the Beverly Kees Educator of the Year Award by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists and in 2006 she was named Journalism Educator of the Year by the California Journalism Education Coalition. She is the author of The Student Newspaper Survival Guide (WIley-Blackwell); the second edition of the book will be published in 2011. She taught reporting with ieiMedia in Cagli (2007) and directed the programs in Urbino (2009) and Perpignan (2010). She will be a visiting professor in Perpignan in 2012.

Sharon Kessler MPA (Reporting) was a slot editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 2000 to 2010, which followed five years as a copy editor on the Metro and National desks at The Washington Post, two years as the proof desk deputy chief at U.S. News & World Report and two years as a copy editor at the Wisconsin State Journal. Before that, she was a television and radio reporter for a dozen years. She has won SPJ and AP awards for headline writing, projects editing, investigative reporting and radio documentary. Recently, she has been using social media, blogging and multimedia to publicize and direct a nonprofit project preserving a 19th century stone building on the Main Street of her hometown, Bottineau, N.D. She will be a visiting journalist in Perpignan in 2012.

Kurt Lancaster (Multimedia/Video) is the author of DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Video (Focal Press, 2011) and Video Journalism for the Web: A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling (Routledge, 2012). He teaches digital filmmaking and multimedia journalism at Northern Arizona University’s School of Communication. His documentary work has appeared at national and international film festivals, as well as in the Pulitzer Prize winning paper, The Christian Science Monitor, where he formerly worked as a consultant training print reporters to shoot video. Kurt earned his PhD in performance studies from New York University.

Greg Luft (Video) is chair of the Journalism and Technical Communication department at Colorado State University. He has a diverse career as a television news reporter and anchor; documentary, educational, and corporate video producer; freelance video journalist; teacher, and academic administrator. Luft began his career in local TV news as a general assignment and investigative reporter, and news anchor while working at television stations in Wyoming, Florida, Oklahoma and Colorado. He also became an independent producer and freelance photojournalist. Luft has worked for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, and Discovery networks, among others. His documentaries, and educational programs focusing on television writing, editing and photography, as well as journalistic behavior, have earned top awards from the Associated Press, Broadcast Education Association, National Council on Christians and Jews, and the Florida Bar Association, among others. These programs are used in classrooms at hundreds of colleges and universities worldwide. Luft also has served in leadership roles for the Broadcast Education Association, College Media Advisors, and the Colorado Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Greg will teach in Urbino in 2012.

Kimberley Lynne is a playwright, novelist, teacher, and theatrical producer. Over thirty of her plays have been produced in Baltimore, Washington, Minneapolis and New York, including five professional productions at Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and Rep Stage. Apprentice House published her ghost folklore novel, Dredging the Choptank, in 2010 and her one-man Christmas Carol, A Dickens of a Carol, in 2009. Lynne teaches screenwriting and is the theater events coordinator at the University of Baltimore. A graduate of Loyola University, Lynne is enrolled in UB’s M.F.A. Creative Writing and Publications Design program. She is a member of Actors Equity and the Dramatist Guild. She will teach in Armagh in 2012. For more information, visit her website at www.kimberleylynne.com.

Sherine Mansour, M.A.C is a former journalist with over 20 years experience as a reporter, host, producer and writer. She holds a Masters degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario. She has received awards for her reporting, including an RTNDA award for her story on the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. Sherine is also an experienced online journalist and has focused her efforts on web news environments and enhanced content creation for print publications. Now a journalism educator, Sherine is the head of the Journalism New-Media post-graduate at Sheridan College in Oakville, Canada. She teaches courses in TV reporting and hosting, producing, writing and interactive storytelling. She is the Editor of Pundit magazine, Sheridan’s news and current affairs publication. She will teach in Salamanca in 2012.

Bob Marshall (Reporting) is the veteran reporter, feature writer and columnist whose work at The Times-Picayune has earned two Pulitzer Prizes. He was co-author of the series “Oceans of Trouble: Are the World’s Fisheries Doomed?” which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service from the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2006 Marshall’s investigations into the engineering missteps that led to the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina were among the stories for which the newspaper was honored with The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In 2007 Marshall was co-author of the series “Last Chance: The Fight to Save a Disappearing Coast,” about Louisiana’s coastal erosion problems, which won the 2007 John H. Oakes Prize for Environmental Reporting from Columbia University, and The National Academies of Sciences Communications Award for newspaper and magazine reporting. Marshall’s wide-ranging career has included covering professional and college sports, Olympics, and the outdoors beat, as well as working on special environmental projects. In addition to his newspaper work, Marshall’s professional credits include writing for Field&Stream Magazine,Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure. He taught reporting in Cagli in 2008 and in Urbino 2009 and 2011 and will return to Urbino in 2012.

Kacey Morrow (Video/Web) is a tenure-track assistant professor of new media design at Western Washington University, teaching in the Design Department with a focus on motion graphics, digital video, web and interaction design. Prior to WWU, she was a full-time lecturer at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL, teaching in the Graphic and Interactive Communications Department. Attending and speaking at conferences such as, Design Principles and Practices and Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media, she stays involved in discussions about the design field and lectures about her work in experimental video. Her award-winning videos have appeared in several film festivals and exhibitions nation-wide. She is currently co-writing a new edition of Producing for TV and New Media with Prof. Dustin Morrow to be published in early 2013. She has works in the nationally published literary journal, Ninth Letter, featured in Print Magazine Regional Design Annual and How Design in 2006, and SXSW Interactive Web Awards Competition in 2005. Prior to teaching, she also has years of professional experience in Chicago as a motion, print, and multimedia designer at various production houses. She will teach in Perpignan in 2012.

Frank Mungeam is the Director of Digital Media for the NBC broadcast group in Portland, Oregon where he manages the Murrow Award winning kgw.com news web site. Mungeam has built and launched four mobile news apps and a news iPad app. Before moving into Digital media in 1998, Mungeam was an Emmy Award winning TV producer and executive producer for network affiliates in Seattle and Portland. Mungeam has a degree in Psychology from Harvard and a Masters in Communications from Gonzaga University. He is also Adjunct Faculty at Washington State University’s Center for Media and Digital Culture. His travel articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Canada. He will direct the program in Prague in 2012.

Courtney O’Brien-Brown (Video) has been working in the film/video industry for the past six years. She has worked across genres, from feature films to animation, in a variety of editing, production and post production positions. She recently edited a short film, which won the “Today Award” at the Berlin International Film Festival. Born in Australia, she migrates for six months every year to Perpignan, in time for the European summer. During her stays, she has immersed herself in the culture & history of the region. She worked with The Perpignan Project in 2010 and returned in 2011.

Kateřina Průšová studied Art History at the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the Charles University (Prague), where she obtained her Mgr. and PhDr. degrees. She worked at diverse art galleries in Prague and Paris (Paul Prouté S.A, Old Master etchings and drawings). She was awarded different scholarships and internships in France (BNF Paris, Montpellier) and Italy (Perugia). Kateřina is a lecturer for several study abroad programs in Prague, such as the Charles University (International Studies Abroad) and she teaches Prague Art and Architecture at the Anglo-American University. She works equally at the National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Old Masters (St. Agnes Monastery, Sternberg Palace). Kateřina specialized in French and Flemish late medieval manuscript illumination. Her fields of interest include medieval painting in Bohemia, baroque architecture in Rome and Bohemia as well as contemporary sculpture and painting. Kateřina is fluent in four languages, namely English, French, Italian and Czech (mother tongue), she understands German and she has a reading knowledge of Hebrew and Spanish.

Jane Satterfield is the winner of the 2011 Mslexia Poetry Competition judged by distinguished U.K. poet Jo Shapcott. The recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, Satterfield is the author of two poetry books—Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir Press Poetry Award) and Shepherdess with an Automatic (Towson University Prize)—as well as Daughters of Empire: a memoir of a year in Britain and Beyond (Demeter Press, 2009). Her work has been anthologized in Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework (University of Iowa Press) and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press), and has appeared widely in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Blackbird, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, North American Review and many more. Satterfield’s nonfiction has been awarded the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s Gold Medal in the Essay, the Florida Review’s Editors’ Prize, and the Heekin Foundation’s Cuchulain Prize; among her other awards are fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She teaches at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore.

Scot Tucker (Photojournalism) is a photographer and picture editor in San Francisco. He is the co-founder of SFBay.ca, a local news aggregation website covering news throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been a lecturer in the journalism department at San Francisco State University, teaching photojournalism and multimedia, since 2005. He has worked as a staff photographer and picture editor for The Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Napa Valley Register, San Mateo County Times and the San Francisco Examiner. He received a B.A. in journalism, and a master’s degree in instructional technology, from San Francisco State University.

Susan West (Reporting/Writing) is an award-winning writer and editor who launches and advises magazines and websites. With an M.S. in science journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia, West started her career as a staff writer at Science News and Science 80. In 1986, she co-founded a popular health magazine called Hippocrates (now known as Health and owned by Time Inc.), which won four National Magazine Awards during her tenure. As a principal at West Gold Editorial consulting, she has launched magazines such as Dwell, trained online editors at websites such as BabyCenter, provided strategic guidance to publications from the New England Journal of Medicine to Acoustic Guitar, and conducted workshops for Cooking Light, Southern Accents, and many others. In 2009, she served as the founding editor of the travel magazine Afar, which last fall was named Best Travel Magazine in North America by the Society of American Travel Writers. She has also been the executive editor of Smithsonian magazine and for many years oversaw the magazine launch projects at the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. She directed the 2011 magazine program in Urbino.

Joan Weber is an independent teaching artist, writer, college professor, dramaturg, actor and director in the Baltimore-Washington area. She has taught every age from pre-school through post-graduate. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at Towson University where she teaches public school teachers at the Arts Integration Institute. She also trains undergraduate theatre majors on becoming teaching artists. She was on the faculty of Howard Community College for many years where she taught Arts Appreciation, Public Speaking and taught summers at the Rep Stage Summer Shakespeare Intensive. Joan was Education Director at Baltimore Shakespeare Festival where she created a Teen Performance Program as part of the theatre’s subscription season. She then became the first executive director for a Baltimore arts education partnership that was funded by the Ford Foundation as part of its Arts Integration and School Reform Initiative with 12 cities across the country. Currently, Joan directs the education division at Creativity & Associates (www.creativityandassociates.com) where she designs education programs for students and teachers that integrate theater into the school day through improvisation, acting, playwriting and speech. She is developing a Kids & Theater component to the Truancy Court Program at The University of Baltimore’s Center for Families, Children and the Courts. She is also working with CENTERSTAGE and Baltimore City Public Schools to develop an online playwriting curriculum for City Schools teachers and CENTERSTAGE’s Young Playwright’s Festival. She is a regular contributor to the Teaching Artist Journal ALT/Space, Edutopia and Americans for the Arts.

Pawel Wyszomirski (Photography) is a freelance photographer from Gdansk, Poland, and cofounder of the photo community Testigo, a collective of photographers and videographers focusing on visual journalism. He participated in the international documentary photo project that dealt with complex Polish-German relations “Wie du es siehst?” and has exhibited his work in Poland and Germany. Over the past few years he has coordinated and taught at several photography workshops and courses for students from Poland, the United States and Scandinavia. Pawel interned at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s premier national newspaper, and currently teaches photojournalism and documentary photography at the Sopot School of Photography. He taught photography in Urbino in 2011. Check out professor Wyszomirski’s photo blog at: http://www.pawelwyszomirski.blogspot.com

John Zibluk Ph.D., is professor of journalism at Arkansas State University, where he is the primary teacher in the state’s only photojournalism degree program. His professional journalism work has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, News Photographer magazine, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and Rolling Stone. He is a former National Geographic magazine faculty fellow, and a former vice president of the National Press Photographers Association. He won the NPPA’s Garland educator of the year award in 2005, and the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association’s Lemke educator award in 2009. In 2011, he led a group of Arkansas State University students to India, where he produced a multi media blog at: http://www.asuindia.blogspot.com. A native of Derby, Connecticut, he worked for 10 years as a newspaper writer, photographer and editor, in southern New England. He earned his bachelors and masters in political science and urban studies at Southern Connecticut State University, and his Ph.D. in mass communications from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
He lives in Jonesboro Arkansas, with his wife, Sara E. McNeil, director of communications at Arkansas state, and their daughter, Kate, 12, who is also a budding journalist. Jack will teach in Salamanca in 2012.

Staff

Heather Anderson is a delightful lady with hardly any journalism experience at all. She is a lover of writing creatively, traveling often, exploring new cultures, and hanging around people who have many more credentials than she. Heather is the Project Coordinator and Director of Admissions at ieiMedia. She has undergraduate degrees in Business Marketing and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and works as a freelance writer. Heather initially came to ieiMedia as a post graduate student in Urbino. On that first trip she realized the new possibilities and fresh perspectives this real world experience affords, and decided that she wanted to be a part of creating this unique, growth opportunity for the many students to come. It is Heather’s belief that to intimately explore one new culture is to realize that there are thousands more to discover, and this realization changes the way a person views their own culture, world, and life forever. You can contact Heather at heather@ieimedia.com.

Olga Timofeeva, MD, Ph.D. Medical Director