Aisha Asif
Aisha Asif recently graduated from CUNY Brooklyn College with degrees in journalism and biology education. Aisha wrote weekly columns on political and international affairs for the campus paper, The Excelsior, and also served as its news editor. She interned with the Daily News and has written for Pakistan’s leading English newspaper, Dawn. aa3320@columbia.edu | @aasif89
Mohamed Alshaaban
Mohamed Al-Shaaban (Dr. Mo) is a Fulbright Scholarship recipient. Born and raised in the Bahrain, Mohamed went to med school and received his MD in 2009. He also received a Bachelors in Medical Research from the University of Manitoba in 2006. Mohamed hosted and produced his own health show which aired on Bahrain TV, called ‘Healthy Minutes’. maa2234@columbia.edu | @malshaaban
Niki Blasina
Niki completed an degree in psychology at the University of Victoria. She has worked as a fashion and lifestyle blogger and freelance writer. She has worked with MTV Canada, the Huffington Post, Complex Magazine, FASHION Magazine, and CTV News Channel, and continues to write what has been named one of the top fashion blogs in Canada, “A Haute Mess,” which she founded in 2009. nlb2124@columbia.edu | @nikiblasina
Michaelle Bond 
Michaelle has written for McClatchy-Tribune Information Services in D.C. and American Journalism Review magazine. In 2011, Michaelle was an intern at USA Today and last year she was a reporter and copy editor at the New York Times’ Student Journalism Institute in New Orleans. Michaelle earned a degree from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. mb3661@columbia.edu | @MichaelleBond
Ryan Book
Ryan Book earned his bachelor’s in journalism with a minor in music from Ohio State University in 2011. He served as arts editor at the campus paper, where he organized the only known college paper interview with the Insane Clown Posse. In 2003, he won the Harrison Cross Country Open Invitational. rmb2199@columbia.edu | @ryanmbook
Yermi Brenner
Yermi Brenner is an Israeli-American multimedia journalist. In the past three years Yermi has been reporting from Israel about conflicts and societal trends through the personal stories of people affected by them. His stories were published in The Huffington Post and on Israel’s Social TV. yermibrenner@gmail.com | @yermibrenner
Cori Capik
Originally from Miami, Cori Capik studied environmental engineering before taking a sharp turn, earning her B.A. in socio-cultural anthropology from Columbia University. Writing her undergrad thesis about fingernail decoration, a story profiling key lime pie, and now her master’s project about technology in bird watching, Cori seeks stories that are found in places often overlooked. cdc2145@columbia.edu | @coricapik
Ding Chenjie
Ding Chenjie is a former staff journalist and editor at Forbes China, covering business, investments and start-ups. She completed her bachelor’s at the Journalism School of Fudan University in Shanghai. She also spent half a year interning at the News Center of China Central Television and another half year at UC Berkeley for an exchange program. cd2661@columbia.edu | @dingchenjie
Rich Dinardo
Rich Dinardo is a former combat correspondent and veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During his time at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, he contributed to live broadcasts of satellite launches and missile tests on the NASA channel. He has produced news packages for the Armed Forces Network and while deployed in the Middle East, he documented daily combat mission highlights for the Pentagon. rmd2181@columbia.edu | @Dinardo743
Stefan Doyno
Stefan Doyno is a native New Yorker who grew up on the Upper East Side before moving to Westchester. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University at Buffalo. He was a news producer and producer at his undergrad television station and has interned at ABC Eyewitness News in New York City, WKBW, and MTV where he wrote for the Newsroom Blog and Movies Blog. sdd2123@columbia.edu | @TheWriteStefan
Richard Feloni
Richard Feloni is a recent graduate of Boston College originally from Somerville, Mass. He has covered the crime beat and post-Sandy recovery efforts for South Brooklyn’s community paper, the Red Hook Star-Revue. Before Columbia, he worked as a writer and copy editor for the newspaper the Bay State Banner and a blogger for the alt-weekly Dig Boston. rjf2131@columbia.edu | @RichFeloni
Coral Garnick
Coral Garnick grew up in Southeast Alaska, graduated from Western Washington University with a journalism degree, and recently returned from Honduras, where she was a health adviser in the Peace Corps. Coral worked as a general assignment intern at The Northern Light, and also served as a copyeditor for The Western Front and a story editor for the Klipsun while there. crg2144@columbia.edu | @coralgarnick
Stacia Georgi
Stacia Georgi was born in Moscow, Russia. She has worked as an on-air reporter for Russia Today in Moscow and various online news organizations throughout New York City. Stacia earned her bachelor degrees in Communications and Theatre from Eckerd College in 2009. as4316@columbia.edu | @A_Smorodina
Ellie Ismailidou
Born and raised in Greece, Ellie worked as a staff writer for To Vima, a national Greek newspaper. She has also reported in Spanish as a TV correspondent for national Spanish TV network Intereconomia. Ellie holds a Law Degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She worked as an attorney in Athens, Greece, before switching to journalism. ei2193@columbia.edu | @ellieisma
Bryan Koenig
Bryan Koenig fancies himself a storyteller. His own begins in Connecticut, which he escaped to attend American University in D.C. Bryan graduated in 2010, after which he returned to the dreaded Conn. suburbs. They weren’t so bad, he discovered, working as a staff writer with the New Britain Herald, where he covered issues from the renovation of a high school to statewide budget policy. bk2476@columbia.edu | @bkoenig94
Theron Mohamed
Theron will be interning at the Wall Street Journal in the Money & Investing section this summer. His articles have been published in The Independent, The Londonist, Fitzrovia News, The Culture Trip and Restaurant Guides. Theron graduated with a degree in Geography from the London School of Economics in 2011. He went on to earn a degree from the London School of Journalism. tem2155@columbia.edu | @ZeitLife
Adam Molon
Adam Molon has worked with the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation in Nanjing, China, where he anchored an international television news show and appeared in nationally broadcast Chinese-language programs. Fluent in Mandarin, he holds degrees in finance and Chinese from Indiana University. He has held internships in business and financial institutions in both the U.S. and China. amm2383@columbia.edu | @ammolon
Anika Navaroli
Anika is a Gator and graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Journalism. She then earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she focused on Media Law. Anika now lives in and loves Central Harlem. acn2124@columbia.edu | @anikanavaroli
Caroline Pailliez
Caroline Pailliez is a French expat from Canada who is in love with Quebec culture. After graduating from HEC Montreal in economics in 2010, she worked as a business reporter for Journal de Montreal and Argent for eight months. She also worked as a research assistant for the Centre for Productivity and Prosperity, where she focused on Quebec. cp2662@columbia.edu | @CaroPliz
Valerie Prassl
Valerie worked three years as a freelance journalist for profil, an Austrian magazine where she wrote about foreign politics. Previously, Prassl worked for Ursache&Wirkung (Cause and Effect), a Buddhist magazine published in Austria. She also ran the Vienna-based press office for the Muslim Jewish Conference. Prassl received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Vienna. vp2276@columbia.edu | @leliaver
Griselda Denise Ramirez
Griselda Denise Ramirez graduated from Santa Clara University in California and earned degrees in Spanish studies and business marketing. She left a job in marketing for an internship at Univision 67. A short time later she was hired as a reporter for The Salinas Californian, her hometown newspaper. For two years she covered education, general assignments and breaking news. gdr2109@columbia.edu | @gd_ramirez
Izabela Rutkowski
Izabela Rutkowski was born and raised in Poland, and came to New York at the age of 19. She went to an English language school, followed by a community college and then received a journalism degree from Brooklyn College. Izabela worked as a reporter for a Polish-language newspaper, the Polska Gazeta. She also interned at the Daily News and the Washington Post’s Think Tanked blog. ir2273@columbia.edu | @izarutkowski
Hira Nafees Shah
Hira Nafees Shah is a Fulbright Scholar from Pakistan and has a master’s in English Literature from Government College University in Lahore. She has worked for more than three years in English print and broadcast media in Pakistan. She has also worked for an Urdu news channel Geo News. hns2106@columbia.edu | @HiraShah05
Tanay Warekar
Tanay Warerkar completed his undergraduate education at Sarah Lawrence College in May with a concentration in literature and gender studies. He worked a stint as a reporter intern for the Times of India as on the Metro Desk. He hopes to use his time at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism to sharpen his reporting skills, and use them in a creative manner to cover the fight for gay rights in India. tw2401@columbia.edu | @toonsyla
