Experts Available: Haiti Earthquake

 

Catherine Orenstein, Author/Journalist; Fellow, Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership
Bio: http://bit.ly/corenstein
Location: New York, NY
• Expert on Haiti and human rights; fluent in Haitian Creole
• Lived and worked in Haiti; reported extensively on the region; organized fact-finding delegations for journalists; and consulted with the UN human rights mission
• Author of “The Haiti Files” (essays on media coverage of Haiti during coup years)

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Michele Wucker, Executive Director, World Policy Institute
Bio: http://bit.ly/michelewucker
Location: New York, NY
• Expert on Haitian affairs, author of “Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola.”
• Appeared on MSNBC Rachel Maddow show discussing the Haiti crisis: http://bit.ly/8zMqOF
• Received 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2009 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, 2009 Young Leader of the American Council on Germany

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Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director, Equality Now
Bio: http://bit.ly/tbien-aime
Location: New York, NY
• Expert on humanitarian and international issues
• Author of "Haiti's Women in the Aftermath of Disaster" (Huffington Post) and quoted in "Women's movement mourns death of 3 Haitian leaders" (CNN)
• Provides expert commentary for the New York Times, AP, Reuters, CNN, NPR, Huffington Post

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Johanna Mendelson-Forman, Senior Associate in the Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, American University
Bio: http://bit.ly/jmendelsonforman
Location: Washington, DC
• Expert on Haiti's transition
• Former senior advisor to the UN’s Special Representative to Haiti in 2005-2006
• Author of “What Haiti needs to sustain progress” (Miami Herald) and “Hope after H.O.P.E. for Haiti” (The Orlando Sentinel)

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