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Immigrants, Immigration and the 2008 Election
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About the 2007 teamAswini Anburajan, reporter
Diego Graglia, reporter Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, reporter
Jocelyn Gonzales, technical advisor and mentor
John Rudolph, executive producer
Andrew White, project directorAndrew White is director of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School. He writes on New York City politics, government and social policy, and teaches courses on the news media, the politics of policy, New York City government and criminal justice. White is a co-founder of the Independent Press Association and IPA-New York, a former chief editor of City Limits magazine and founding director of the Center for an Urban Future.
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Aswini Anburajan is an associate producer at ABCNews.com. She grew up in Connecticut after immigrating from India at the age of four with her family. As an international relations major at Brown University she focused on the shaping of identity and its relation to ethnic conflict. Her studies led her to South Africa where she became immersed in grassroots AIDS work. During the 2004 presidential campaign she was an organizer in New Hampshire for Dean for America and later became an opposition researcher for the Kerry/Dean campaign. She then moved to New York and worked for NBC, first as a news associate and then as a researcher for the Today Show.
Diego Graglia is an Argentinean journalist who writes about the convergence of the U.S. and Latin America and the intersecting paths of Latinos, Americans and Latin Americans. Since he became a professional journalist in 1997, he has written in Spanish and English for newspapers and magazines in the United States, Argentina and Chile, including Clarín (Buenos Aires, Argentina), El Mercurio (Santiago, Chile), The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ) and the Daily News (New York). He holds degrees in journalism from Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Universidad Católica Argentina and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska has been a reporter for the Polish Daily News since 2003, where she covers stories about Polish immigrants in the U.S. Born and raised in Warsaw, Poland, she moved to the United States in 2001. She received an Independent Press Association Ethnic Press Fellowship in 2004 and has won numerous Ippies—awards given to ethnic press journalists every year by the Independent Press Association. In 2005 she was granted a University of Maryland Journalism Fellowship in Child and Family Policy, and in 2006 she participated in a fellowship program offered by the New York Times Institute for the Ethnic Press. In 2004 she was a contributor to the award-winning radio documentary “Feet in Two Worlds: Immigrants in a Global City.” Her story, “Polish Pharmacies,” revealed how pharmacies in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, serve as unofficial neighborhood centers for newly arrived Polish immigrants. Kern-Jedrychowska graduated from the University of Warsaw with an MA in Polish Studies in 2000, and is currently studying anthropology at Hunter College in New York.
Jocelyn Gonzales is freelance radio producer in New York City. Her work has been featured on WNYC News, Studio 360, Soundcheck, Marketplace, Weekend America, Sound Money, Radiolab, Musicians Radio, Ear Studio, Minnesota Public Radio, Strange Music andRe:Sound. She was part of the team that created Studio 360, and she was the producer for ‘Dish, Now Hear This!’ and The Conversation on WNYC. For a long time, she was an audiobook director, editor and production manager for Simon & Schuster Audio, and prior to that she juggled broadcast services for ABC Radio Networks with working for The Radio Stage. Gonzales is a full-time faculty member at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the sound design department and was the principal advisor to the campus radio station, WNYU AM/FM, for several years.
John Rudolph has produced award-winning reports, documentaries and special programs for WNYC, New York Public Radio, National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Monitor Radio and many other radio stations and networks. Mentoring young journalists is an important part of his work. Over the years he has guided numerous aspiring reporters, many of whom have gone on to successful careers in public radio and other media.