The institute has assembled a highly qualified group of tenured college faculty and working professionals with specific skills in experiential teaching. Students are informed in advance about which faculty will be at their site.

Gretchen Macchiarella Biasotti : Video heads the daily editorial operations of VenturaCountyStar.com, including overseeing multimedia projects.
She currently organizes all the training, and provides much of it. She works with reporters through short-term intensives, formal workshops and one-on-one editing to teach technical skills and storytelling.
She founded a multimedia internship program with local colleges and has been a guest speaker for university classes and the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley.
She has worked on several experimental video projects including a daily news webcast and hosting and producing local video features.  Before going digital she worked as a print reporter and business editor for several newspapers, including The Star. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Communications and where she worked at the Daily Nexus. 
She lives in Ventura, Calif. with her husband, Tony, in a small house with a big dog.

Cindy Bonfini-Hotlosz : Web Design / Video (M.A. Communications, West Virginia University, B.S. Computer Science, Ohio University) is the Chief Information Officer and Director of Production for JesuitNET, a consortium of the Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States. Cindy’s passion for production began in high school, writing and producing annual Christmas plays for the local elementary schools. She produced one of the first International Teleconferences Bridging the Gap: Education and Industry as part of a High Technology grant in 1989. In the late 1990s, she worked with NASA to produce several online courses and communication campaigns for their commercialization project, including a three-part teleconferencing series, Technology Transfer in Action. In her time with the Jesuit colleges, she has helped launch new online programs that span several disciplines. Her passion for story-telling has evolved as technology has evolved -- keeping her on the “bleeding” edge. Bonfini taught Web design in Cagli in 2006, as well as this last summer in Cagli and Armagh. You can find more information about Cindy at jesuit.net/cbonfini/.

Dr. John S. Caputo : Intercultural Communication (Gonzaga) earned his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School and University Center. He has been teaching communication courses for more than 30 years. His areas of expertise include media and social values, communication theory, intercultural and interpersonal communication. He is the author of four books: Dimensions of Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Communicating Effectively: Linking Thought and Expression; and McDonaldization Revisited: Critical Essays on Consumer Culture. Dr. Caputo has been honored as a Visiting Scholar In-Residence at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England and the Masters Program in Media and Communication at the Universita de Firenze, Italy. He is veteran faculty member from past Cagli programs.

Giovanni Caputo : Journaling / On-Line Editor received his degree in communication and fine arts from Gonzaga University and did his graduate studies in education at The Evergreen State College. Aside from teaching in Italy, Giovanni has spent time teaching at various levels in the French public school system. Back in the U.S., he works as a French translator and graphic designer. Giovanni’s academic interests include journalism, short story writing and storytelling. In addition to teaching a course on journaling in last year’s Cagli program, he was also the editor of the Armagh Examiner and Around Armagh, online news and information blogs created for the program.

Andrew Ciofalo (MSJ, Columbia University) is Professor of Communication/ Journalism at Loyola College (Md.) where he arrived in 1983 to found what is now The Communication Department. He is the author and director of the Cagli Program in International Reporting which every summer since 2002 has sent undergraduates to participate in The Cagli Media Project, an on-going multi-media web documentary on a small Italian town. In keeping with his interest in experiential learning, he is the founder of Apprentice House Press, a student-run book publishing company at Loyola College ApprenticeHouse.com. He teaches courses in Travel Writing, Book Publishing, Magazine Publishing, Magazine Writing, and Opinion Writing. Most recently he has founded The Institute for Education in International Media, an independent organization that sponsors Cagli-style media projects abroad.

Judy Dobler : Copy Editing / Writing Dr. Dobler (Ciofalo) has been on the Communication Department faculty at Loyola College (Md.) since its inception. Immediately after earning her doctorate ar the University of Iowa, she came to Loyola to play a significant role in the college’s ground-breaking Writing-Across-the-Curriculum program, which was funded by a major national grant. In addition to specializing in the teaching of essay writing, she headed the department’s Empirical Rhetoric program, which gives qualified entering freshmen opportunities to do more advanced writing. Dr. Dobler also chairs the college’s Gender Studies Program. Her academic research agenda focuses on the development and use of metaphor in early scientific writing, an interest that is expressed in one of her courses, “Translating the Secrets of Science”.

John Dunn : Video is a television director and producer who has worked extensively in advertising and film since 1987.  He graduated with a degree in radio, TV, and film from Temple University in Philadelphia, produced a number of short film and breaking news documentaries and later entered corporate advertising.  During an 11 year period, he produced 1500 television commercials and became the Senior Vice-President of a boutique agency in Orlando, Florida.  John’s film scripts, production and media buying skills enabled him to launch his own successful firm in 2008.  Currently John is launching two half hour programs that his firm developed while continuing to produce short form advertising for local and regional clients.

Arielle Emmett : Reporting / Writing has been a professional journalist and teacher since beginning her career. After graduating with honors in pre-med and East Asian studies at the University of Michigan, she was selected as the New York Times intern for columnist William Safire. Emmett later studied at National Taiwan Normal University while serving as a Newsweek stringer. She became a columnist and contributor to Orientations, Asia Magazine, and East Asian News and Features. Later she went to New York as an editor for Science Digest. Emmett then became a reporter and full-time features staff writer for the Detroit Free Press. She has held senior positions at Computer Graphics World magazine, America’s Network, and Wireless Integration, and was a ten-year contributing editor at The Scientist. Currently she is a doctoral student in Communications at the University of Maryland. She head up ieiMedia's evaluation program.

Jesse Garnier: Web Module Jesse Garnier has taught journalism, design and multimedia at San Francisco State University since 2006. He also advises the department's award-winning online student publication, Golden Gate [X]press Online. Previously, Jesse held a series of management and editorial positions for the Associated Press graphics department in New York and San Francisco. With the AP, Jesse covered or managed the coverage of major news events including the September 11, 2001 attacks on America, the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Jesse also designed, developed and deployed company-wide Web applications for the AP, including their first-ever unified corporate Intranet. Before joining the AP, Jesse, a San Francisco native, was on the masthead of the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner as editor of Examiner.com. Jesse is a member of the Society for News Design and the Asian American Journalists Association.

Dan Garrity : Video (MA Communication Leadership, Gonzaga University) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Director of the Broadcast Studies Program at Gonzaga University. Dan has an extensive background in professional broadcasting. His first job was in 1980 as a DJ at a radio station in Flagstaff, Arizona. His television resume includes stints as an anchor/reporter at KLST in San Angelo, Texas, and at KREM in Spokane. He also was a reporter at KING in Seattle, then embarked on a career in television newsroom management in which he served as Managing Editor at the CBS and NBC affiliates in Spokane. Garrity also taught video for the 2006 Camerano Project, as well as the 2007 Cagli Project.

Dr. Patricia Geist-Martin: Intercultural Communication, Storytelling, Writing (Ph.D. Communication, Purdue University) is a Professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State University where she teaches organizational communication, health communication, and ethnographic research methods. Her research interests focus on narrative and negotiating identity, ideology, & control in organizations, particularly in health and illness.  She has published three books and over 60 articles and book chapters.  One look at her resume reveals that her research interests have taken her quite a few places, including Hawaii, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, and most recently Costa Rica..  While the broad umbrella of her research is health communication, most recently she has become fascinated with two specific areas:  (a) the culture and politics of communicating in alternative health care practices, and (b) story as healing, where writing becomes a form of inquiry and health. She is immersed in her fourth book, a memoir entitled Melancholy Speed, about her mother who died when she was 17.  When Patricia is not researching, teaching, and writing, she is off into the wilderness, hiking, running, camping, and exploring with her husband J.C. and their 15 year old daughter, Makenna.

Marie Gould : Student Life has a long career working in media and with college students, including tenures as a regular newspaper columnist, special correspondent for TV news, and a travel writer. Marie currently is assistant director of the Tulane University program For The Children, which uses college students to tutor children in low performing New Orleans public schools. She recruits, advises, trains, and supervises Tulane students. Marie brings decades of intercultural experience to the iei program. Her travel resume stretches back to her childhood with family in Sweden and includes more than 40 years exploring countries across the globe.  She is a long-time member of the international cultural exchange group Servas, both as a traveler and host. Marie obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona and Masters Degree from the University of New Orleans.

Susan Jacobson : Web Design / Podcasting (PhD, New York University) is a full-time faculty member in the Dept. of Journalism at Temple University. She teaches courses in audio-visual newsgathering, Web journalism, design for journliasts and student portfolio preparation. She has worked in new media for more than 20 years, working with companies like The New York Times, Scholastic, GTE (now Verizon) and Comedy Central. She has conducted several community webcasting projects in Phildelphia and New York City, working with organizations like Caroline’s Comedy Club on Broadway, ComedySportz Philadelphia, and the Fluid Nightclub in Philadelphia. Dr. Jacobson is a member of the Board of the Directors of the Philadelphia Area New Media Association.

Rachele Kanigel : Reporting / Writing (MSJ Columbia University) is an assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, where she advises Golden Gate [X]press publications. Her students produce a weekly newspaper, a multimedia Web siteupdated daily and a magazine that comes out three times a semester. She also teaches Newswriting, Reporting, the Contemporary Magazine and Magazine Editing. She was a newspaper reporter for 15 years for daily newspapers, including The Oakland Tribune and The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, and was a freelance correspondent for TIME magazine. She has also written for Health, Organic Style, People, Reader’s Digest, Prevention and other national magazines. In 2006 she was named California Journalism Educator of the Year (Four-Year Division) by the California Journalism Education Coalition. Her book. The Student Newspaper Survival Guide, was published by Blackwell Publishing in 2006.

David Maialetti : Photography (C.C. of Philadelphia) is a staff photographer with the Philadelphia Daily News. Before joining the Daily News in 1997, he worked at the Press Enterprise newspaper in Bloomsburg, Pa. Maialetti is the director of Philadelphia Conference, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of photojournalism. He is a former president of the Pennsylvania Press Photographers Association. Currently teaches the Introduction to Photojournalism course at Community College of Philadelphia. He is a 1989 graduate of Temple University’s School of Communications. Dave instructed photography for the 2006 Camerano Project as well as last summers 2007 Cagli Project.

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. His many other national and regional awards for journalism include top honors from the Associated Press, United Press International, Scripps-Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards, Society of Professional Journalists, National Association of Sportswriters and Sportscasters, the Pro Football Writers of America and Outdoor Writers Association of America. His environmental reporting and essays have also earned recognition form a wide range of conservation and environmental groups, and including Conservationist of the Year awards from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. And in 2004 Marshall was elected to the Circle of Chiefs by the OWAA, that group’s highest award for contributions to conservation.
In addition to his newspaper work, Marshall’s professional credits include his current assignment as conservation editor for Field&Stream Magazine, and terms as South region editor of Field&Stream; South columnist of Outdoor Life Magazine; host of the F&S Radio Network; co-host of ESPN’s The Outdoors Writers and feature assignments for a wide range of national publications from Men’s Journal and Reader’s Digest to National Geographic Adventure. Marshall, a 1971 graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans,  lives in The Big Easy with his wife, Marie.

Don Menn : Feature Writing/ Intercultural Communication Don Menn teaches courses in the Magazine Sequence as well as Newswriting and Reporting. He has served as editor-in-chief of magazines such as Guitar Player and Multimedia World; written for such publications as San Francisco Magazine, Harper's, The San Jose Mercury News, and The San Francisco Chronicle; and — as associate publisher and executive vice president of GPI Publication — helped launch many award-winning periodicals, oversee a book and record division, and secure worldwide distribution of different kinds of media products. A graduate of Stanford University, he has held virtually every job title in publishing from editorial Assistant at The Kansas City Star to CEO of Loud, Inc., prototyping a news magazine for teens.

George Miller : Photography / Reporting / Writing is a journalism professor at Temple University, and a freelance writer and photographer. A 1993 graduate of Loyola College, Miller previously worked as a photojournalist and reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News. He holds masters degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the Cagli Project since 2003, teaching photography and storytelling. In 2006, he worked with students to create an unconventional travel book about the Le Marche region of Italy. For summer of 2007, Miller worked with students in Ireland for the Armagh Project.

Dustin Morrow : Video is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer. He teaches media production at Temple University. His short films have won numerous awards and been shown in venues around the world. He writes about film and pop culture for a host of publications, and his photographs have been featured in a number of art and culture magazines, as well as public exhibition spaces. Much of Morrow’s work seeks to explore Irish music, politics, and culture through essays, photographs, and short- and long-form narrative, documentary and avant-garde films. Morrow instructed video for the 2007 Armagh Project.

Dr. Bren Ortega Murphy: Intercultural Communication (Loyola University Chicago) earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. In addition to teaching over 20 different courses, she has served as Department Chair, Assistant Dean of Arts & Sciences, and Director of Women’s Studies. In 1996, she received the highest teaching award given at Loyola Chicago. Her areas of scholarship include communication theory, media and society, gender and communication, communication ethics, service learning and intercultural communication. Her publications include a co-authored text on hegemony, a co-edited text on service learning and a documentary about women’s education.  She is currently working on a documentary about the image of nuns in U.S. popular culture. Dr. Murphy lived with her family in Rome during the 1998-99 academic year when she taught for Loyola’s Rome Center.

Father Bruno Segatta : Provost / Dean of Students has practiced the study and mastery of art since earning his degree from Northridge University in 1982. In the autumn of that year, Father Bruno began his tenure at Gonzaga University in Florence, Italy as Assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs. Here he instructed painting, drawing, design and the licate techniques of fresco. Inspired by his surroundings, he specializes in portraying the Florence and Tuscany landscpaes utilizing an abstract style with emphasis on color and line. The revenue generated by his work is used for student life in Florence and also donated to the Niambani House for Kids orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya; a place of comfort for children stricken with AIDS.

Michael I. Williams : Photography/Web Design (MSJ – University of Kansas) is an associate professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland – College Park. He teaches courses in visual communication in the specialty area of interactive media. He previously taught photojournalism and multimedia design in the visual communications sequence in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He began his 17-year academic career at the University of Kansas where he was a member of the faculty of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He has also been a visiting professor in the School of Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Williams returned to the professional world in 2000 as Director of Internet Development for Kalmbach Publishing Company, a magazine publisher in Milwaukee, Wisc. There he was founding editor of Trains.com, the most frequently visited site for railroad enthusiasts and rail industry professionals. He was also publisher for Astronomy.com and oversaw the development of web sites for other Kalmbach publications. Williams began his professional career as staff photographer for the Salem (Ore.) Statesman-Journal where he was later promoted to Photo Director. He served as Graphics Director at the Albuquerque Tribune and Assistant Managing Editor at the Clarion-Ledger and Jackson Daily News in Mississippi. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Williams has done extensive visual communication consulting throughout the U.S. and Russia. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Master of Science in Journalism degrees from the University of Kansas. He continues to produce photographic documentary work for publication in print and online.

Yumi WIlson: (SF State University) Yumi Wilson is an assistant professor in journalism at San Francisco State University. Prior to that, she spent 11 years at the Chronicle where she held various titles, including: deputy readers' representative (deputy ombudsman); Open Forum editor and City Hall reporter. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1990.She was a co-host for City Visions, a public affairs radio program on KALW-FM Radio in San Francisco. Her areas of interest include: politics, public policy and multiracial issues.Yumi is currently working on a book that traces her Japanese mother's footsteps back to Japan where she met her African-American father, who was an Army soldier at the time. Her research began at the University of Michigan where she studied history, political science and creative writing as a Knight-Wallace Fellow for the 2000-2001 academic year. She continued her research in Japan as a Fulbright research scholar in the fall of 2001. She wrote about her journey for the San Francisco Chronicle in March 2002.