Jessica Partnow

Board President

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Eamon Aloyo

Board Vice President

Eamon Aloyo is co-organizer of D.R.E.A.M. Ride, a fundraising bike race with six humanitarian aid nonprofits as beneficiaries. Eamon is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his passions are international ethics and development, as well as political philosophy and other disciplines. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Lehigh University (PA), and has worked and studied in Kenya and Argentina. His time in Kenya was especially influential in his inspiration to participate in fundraising and organizing for development.

Alex Stonehill

Board Treasurer

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Sarah Stuteville

Board Secretary

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Joel Dodge

Director

Joel Dodge is currently a Ph.D candidate in mathematics at University of California - San Diego. He received his undergraduate degree in Math with a minor in Media Studies from Hunter College in New York City.

Ron Feemster

Director

Ron Feemster is currently Visiting Professor of Journalism at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media in Bangalore, India. He has reported for The New York Times, Associated Press, Newsday, the New York Post, Village Voice, AP Radio, WBAI, Pacifica Radio, WNYC, NPR and many others. He began his journalism career in Germany in the 1980s, where he wrote primarily for German language publications. Ron has taught journalism at several colleges in the City of New York University system and, most recently, at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming. He received an MS from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism as well as an MA in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He did his undergraduate work at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Nanette Francia-Cotter

Director

Nanette Francia-Cotter became Deputy Director of the NYCLU in June 2005. Before joining the NYCLU, Nanette was Director of Community Programs at the Food Bank for New York City where she was responsible for maintaining a strong connection between the Food Bank and its member agencies, ensuring the needs of the emergency feeding network were readily met. Prior to this, she was Director of Administration and Personnel, also at the Food Bank. In this capacity, Nanette provided administrative oversight on all personnel and office issues, and project management on organizational expansion and technology upgrades. She also served in a number of capacities at the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, including Deputy Director of the Central Eurasia Project, overseeing all program administration of five Soros national foundations in Central Eurasia. Nanette also was a volunteer with the pioneer group of the U.S. Peace Corps in Kazakhstan (former Soviet Union).

Nanette received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Rutgers University with a double-minor in Spanish and Philosophy, and completed the core curriculum of the Masters of Public Administration Graduate Program from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Eroyn Franklin

Director

Eroyn Franklin is an artist, curator and co-founder of artist cooperatives S.S. Marie Antoinette and Sublevelthree in Seattle, Washington. Her recent artistic works currently draw from very personal narrative and conceptual themes. Eroyn is very interested in the intersections between personal narratives and larger political conditions and ideologies. Her work is portrayed in the socially relevant and cutting-edge mediums of comic books and cut paper 2d sculpturing. An experienced international photojournalist, Eroyn has strong interest in the values of Common Language Project beyond the abstract. Trained as a fine artist with a degree in photography from University of Washington, Eroyn plays a role in overall design elements for CLP.

Larry Johnson

Director

Larry Johnson is the National/Foreign Editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In his reporting and writing he has focused on trouble spots around the world that are not reported, under-reported or misreported. His work has appeared in national magazines and a wide variety of newspapers, and he has traveled in more than 35 countries. He has won numerous awards and fellowships, and lives in Seattle. Larry joined the CLP's board of directors in November 2008.

Hanson Hosein

Advisory Board Member

Hanson Hosein is the Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media program at the University of Washington, where he joined the faculty in 2007. He's an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and television journalist. He teaches courses on social media, digital content creation and journalism. Hanson earned law degrees (LL.B., B.C.L.) from McGill University in 1992 and the University of Paris (M. en droit) in 1993. He was awarded an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1994.

His documentary film, Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop has been broadcast around the world, thanks to an innovative digital media marketing approach (Sundance Channel, NHK Japan, SBS Australia). Hanson also produced groundbreaking films for the U.S. government in southern Africa, for TurnHere.com, Discovery Channel Mobile in Latin America and for aid organizations such as PATH and Mercy Corps.

Hanson has worked as a television news correspondent and producer from the world's hotspots for NBC News, MSNBC, CBC News, and Global National. Among other stories, he covered the war in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the NATO intervention in Kosovo, the 1999 Turkey earthquake, the death of King Hussein of Jordan, and Al-Qaeda's bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. Visit www.hrhmedia.com to learn more about Hanson's work.

John Tarleton

Advisory Board Member

John Tarleton is a writer, editor and organizer for The Indypendent. He has helped guide The Indypendent as it garnered more IPA awards for excellence in community journalism, than any other paper in the city each of the past four years. He also built the paper's citywide distribution network. Since 2001, he has assisted with the initial development of El Independiente, Riseup Radio (WBAI-99.5 FM's youth activism show) and Indy Kids as well as Indymedia newspapers in San Francisco, Boston and Binghamton, N.Y. and founded The Indypendent's Community Reporting Workshop Series which has trained nearly 300 citizen journalists.

Tarleton is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. A pioneer in online citizens journalism, he launched cybertraveler.org and johntarleton.net in 1994. Reporting from the remotest parts of El Salvador, Chiapas and Oaxaca to the back alleys of Morocco to the Battle of Seattle to September 11th, he steadily built an audience of thousands as he hitchhiked 75,000 miles in 17 countries while surviving on money he made as a migrant farm worker and tree planter.