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Malkia Cyril, Executive Director, Center for Media Justice

Malkia is founder of the Center for Media Justice. Malkia is the recipient of

the Media Leader award from the Alliance for Community Media, the

Emerging Leader award from the Media That Matters Film Festival, and

other awards from the Media Justice Fund, Rock the Vote, and others.Malkia has appeared on or in Democracy Now, Hard Knock Radio,

Breakdown FM, Free Speech TV, the documentary Outfoxed, the

documentary Broadcast Blues, the SF Weekly, the San Francisco Bay

Guardian, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and others.

Contact:[email protected]

Erubiel Valladares Carranza II

Erubiel works for PCUN, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, also known as Northwest

Treeplanters and Farmworkers United.

Contact: [email protected]

Amalia Deloney, Coordinator, Media Action Grassroots Network

Amalia Deloney is a Guatemala-born activist, cultural worker and former Senior

Fellow with the Main Street Project. Amalia earned her B.A. in Urban Studies and

History from Macalester College and her Juris Doctorate with a focus on Social

Justice from Hamline University School of Law. Her areas of specialization include

community organizing and education, cultural rights, non-partisan political

participation, and media justice.


Jessica Gonzalez, Policy Counsel, National Hispanic Media Coalition

Jessica is NHMC's DC-based Policy Counsel. Jessica executues NHMCs federal

policy priorities before the federal agencies and in Congress. Before joining

NHMC, Jessica was a staff attorney and clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown Laws

Institute for Public Representation (IPR. At IPR Jessica also represented

other consumer, civil rights and public interest organizations before the FederalCommunications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information

Administration and in the Courts of Appeal. Jessica is a LLM degree candidate at

Georgetown Law. She earned her JD at Southwestern Law School, where she worked

on theJournal of Law and Trade in the Americas and theJournal of International

Media and Entertainment Law, and her BA from Loyola Marymount University.


Roberto Lovato, Presente.org (Available for Spanish Language Press)

Roberto is a New York-based writer withNew America Media and a frequent

contributor to The Nation Magazine. He's also written for theLos Angeles Times,

Salon,Der Spiegel, Utne Magazine, La Opinion, and other national and

international media outlets. Contact: Prior to becoming a writer, Lovato was the

former Executive Director of CARECEN, which was the largest immigrant rightsorganization in the country. You can find him posting regularly on media,

migration, politics and other issues at his blog, www.ofamerica.wordpress.com.

Contact: [email protected]

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George Lujan, Communications Organizer, SouthWest Organizing Project

George joined the staff as Communications Organizer in 2009, after being a life-

long member of SWOP. He worked on Community Garden and Youth projects, as

well as contributing artwork for Voces Unidas magazine. He studied Media Arts at

the Universidad de Nuevo Mexico and now works on promoting SWOP's media

presence. In his free time he enjoys walking his dog along the bosque and watching

samurai movies.


Steven Renderos, Media Justice Organizer, Mainstreet Project

(Available for Spanish Language Press)Steven leads Main Street Project's media justice and community building efforts,

including the Justice 2.0 training project and our collaborative work with the

nationwide Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net).


Ivn Romn, Executive Director, National Association of Hispanic Journalists

Ivn joined the National Association of Hispanic Journalists as executive director in

September 2003 after working as a professional journalist for nearly two decades.

From the 2,000-member associations offices in Washington, D.C., Romn oversees

its many educational and professional development programs, and its growing

advocacy efforts aimed at getting more Latinos into newsrooms across the country

and fighting for more fair and balanced coverage of the nations Latinos.


Graciela I. Snchez, Director (Available for Spanish Language Press)

As executive director of the 21-year-old Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Sanchez uses

art as a form of social justice. By providing some of San Antonios poorest residents with

access to films, music, photography and architecture, the Esperanza helps people embrace

their history and culture and feel pride in their heritage.


Andrea Isabel Quijada, Executive Director of the Media Literacy Project

Andrea delivers media literacy presentations and trainings -- in New Mexico, across the

USA and internationally -- at professional and student conferences, at community

forums, on college campuses, and in middle schools and high schools. She leads

workshops for students, teachers, media activists, community organizers and health

professionals. Contact:[email protected]

Kirk Whisler

Kirk Whisler is the president of Western Publication Research, Inc., acorporation that includes Latino Print Network, WPR Publishing, and Western

Publication Research. He also serves as publisher and executive editor for the

Hispanic Marketing 101 newsletter and podcast, and has authored or edited over

20 books on Hispanic marketing. He is a founding member of the National

Association of Hispanic Journalists.

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