Maureen Googoo is a Mi'kmaq from the Indian Brook First Nation located an hour's drive outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Maureen has always wanted to see better coverage of Aboriginal people like herself in mainstream media which is why she has devoted most of her 20-year career in journalism covering Aboriginal issues in Canada.

Before Columbia University, Maureen worked six years as a video journalist with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in Canada where she covered aboriginal issues in Atlantic Canada for APTN National News. Before then, she reported for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald Newspaper and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Maureen has a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada (1994) and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada (1992).

Maureen hopes to become a journalism educator in the near future so she can encourage young Aboriginal people in Canada to become journalists.

For more information on Maureen Googoo, please visit the following link:

maureengoogoo.com

Email: mgoogoo@gmail.com

Before entering Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Brian Clark Howard spent five years as Managing Editor of Connecticut-based E/The Environmental Magazine, the U.S.’s oldest, largest independent environmental magazine. Howard researched and wrote articles on a diverse range of topics, including 8,000-word cover stories, and worked on the publication’s website (www.emagazine.com). He was a finalist for the 2005 Reuters/IUCN Environmental Media Awards for his cover story on the bottled water industry.

In addition, Howard has contributed to a variety of publications, including Connecticut Magazine, The Green Guide, Alternet, Fairfield County Weekly, Oceana, Clamor and Britain’s Ergo Living. He was the co-editor and co-author of the 2005 book Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth. Howard is also an active member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Howard holds a B.S. and B.A. in Geology and Biology from Indiana University in Bloomington, with minors in Art History, German and Western European Studies. In college, he conducted research on birds and wetland ecology and on Ordovician fossils.

For more information on Brian Clark Howard, please visit the following link:

http://www.duylinhtu.com/nmsadvanced/howard

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