My name is Keith Kocinski and I'm a New York City based multimedia journalist. I'm what you call a true one-man band production crew. I've been professionally shooting video, editing, writing and doing on camera work for 15 years. I've traveled to the ends of the earth (6 of 7 continents and over Read more10 countries)....and even a Mars like environment shooting video for Netflix, Channel One News, NBC, VOA and a variety of other outlets. I'm professional, efficient, independent, and I have all my own equipment. I'm able to do in studio and work but I truly shine in the field shooting news and documentary style work. Check out my work and if you have any questions please reach out to me. I'm able to travel globally for work and I can almost guarantee my cost to quality ratio is unbeatable. I have tons of references so please feel free to reach out if you are curious.

Emmy Award-nominated Director and Producer Mariano Carranza, specializes in premium content, with an emphasis on food, travel, identity, and culture.  

With over 10 years of experience as staff at VICE and CNN, Mariano recently directed the Miami episode of the Netflix Show 'Street Food: USA,' Read morewhich was on the Top 10 Netflix TV Shows in its first weeks out. 

Holding a collection of hundreds of short documentaries directed under his name with 500+ million cumulative views, Mariano is currently a full-time freelancer and continues working with global companies like Lonely Planet, Bloomberg, Acurio International, Salesforce, and USA Today.

He’s a proud alumni and film major of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where he has since returned as a guest lecturer on documentary filmmaking. He loves to cook and has a growing collection of Latin American records.

www.marianocarranza.com

Ahmed Fathi is a UN Correspondent and, global affairs analyst based in New York, NY and available for international assignments.

Ting-Yi Hsu is a creative, versatile bi-lingual journalist/photojournalist with years of experience based in New York, United States of America. 

She has worked as a daily newspaper reporter, editor, TV producer, and photographer/videographer with various media organizations and platforms in Read moreboth Chinese Mandarin and English. 

She possesses diverse skills, including content writing, interviewing, shooting, coordinating, producing, translating, and managing digital content.   

She collaborates well with clients to produce compelling news stories and brings leadership and inspiration to every project.

Ting-Yi Hsu graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with dual degrees in Journalism and French.

Gina Di Meo is a journalist based in New York, United States of America.

Clair MacDougall is an independent journalist and writer, currently based in West Africa and covering the elections in Mali. 

Her recent work has focused on Liberia’s post-war construction and imperfect attempts to reconcile with its brutal past. Clair has reported on the Ebola outbreak and its Read moreaftermath  for the past  two years, contributing to the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize winning coverage and earning her the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund Award. She has written about mercenaries, former warlords, justice for war crimes, government corruption, drug abuse, former female child soldiers, rebel combatants, women’s rights and social justice issues. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Newsweek, Time, Smithsonian Magazine, Stern, Al Jazeera America and Foreign Policy and she has reported from West Africa, Uganda, India, rural Australia and the United States.  She holds an honors degree in political theory and is a graduate of Columbia’s journalism school. She is a recent Great Lakes Reporting Fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation. She is available for assignments in West Africa and Africa. Her work can be seen at www.ckmacdougall.com

Nareg Seferian is an independent researcher. His published writings are available at naregseferian.com.

Michael Eckels was born in 1976 in Middlebury Vermont as the youngest of five children. His parents are both math teachers. He grew up heavily immersed in cross-country skiing, a sport he enjoys to this day.

Michael received a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont, with additional Read moreintensive studies at London’s University of Westminster. After college he served as a Peace Corps volunteer English teacher in far eastern Russia outside of Vladivostok.

From literature and languages he moved to news and documentary photography at The Moscow Times and Agence France-Presse. With the progression of digital video technology into still cameras, Michael began to expand his horizons into cinema. He received an M.F.A. in directing/screenwriting for film and television from NYU Tisch Schools of the Arts.

Michael maintains a broad range of visual and textual interests. Cinema, photography, poetry, essay, new media journalism, conceptual and documentary. He currently resides in New York with his wife and their two boys.

Adeline is a journalist and a multi-platform content creator with extensive experience in digital media. Skilled in producing, shooting, writing, video editing and leading a team to do all the above, Adeline enjoys pushing narrative boundaries. Bilingual in French and English, with notions of Read moreSpanish and Arabic, she covered independent stories in multiple countries: France, Morocco, Tunisia, Gabon, Congo, Egypt, Italy, United States...

Adeline holds a Master degree in TV Journalism from Goldsmiths, University of London and have since been working for major international media outlets across the world such as The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, AJ+, Voice of America, AFP, CNN, Africa 24...She have played a hand in production of all type including daily live news programming, short and long-form originals, social media videos. She shoot, edit, report, produce and experiment. Adeline took on the role of News Editor at Crowdspark (formerly Newzulu) in New York developing an expertise in UGC and strategies to build communities of content producers worldwide. She then took on the role of Long-form producer at Brut America. She also co-founded a production company called Global Fronteras Production with a particular focus on interactive productions and Human Stories.

Leticia Duarte is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer, and podcaster based in the United States. She covers social and political issues from a humanitarian perspective. Her work has been published in outlets such as The New Yorker magazine, The Atlantic, TheGroundTruth Project, and Read moreRevista Piauí. She is the author of the book Vaza Jato, in partnership with The Intercept Brazil. She has experience hosting and writing scripts for podcasts in English and Portuguese. She holds an MA in Politics and Global Affairs from Columbia University. 
*She is based in New York but currently is in Oakland, California.*