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Journalism/Communications
James Angelos (2009-10)
James Angelos writes regularly for The New York Times City Section. He graduated with an M.S. degree in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2007, and will spend his fellowship year under the sponsorship of Spiegel Online International writing stories about Berlin. He will focus especially on topics involving immigration and integration. (7/2/09)
Gal Beckerman (2008-09)
Gal Beckerman has just completed a history of the Soviet Jewry movement, the 25-year Cold War struggle for free emigration out of the Soviet Union. It will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the fall of 2010. He is currently on staff at the Forward newspaper and was a longtime writer and editor for the Columbia Journalism Review, a magazine of media criticism. His essays and book reviews appear regularly in a number of other journals and newspapers, including the New York Times Book Review and Bookforum, and he was the New York bureau chief of the Jerusalem Post in 2006. Gal has a Bachelors degree from Reed College and a Masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Deborah Kolben and their daughter, Mika.
(5/8/10)
David Fondiller (1992-93)
Since November 2006, Dave has been Director of Media Relations for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm with extensive operations in German-speaking Europe. Based in New York, he focuses on media and marketing in the Americas region. Prior to joining BCG, he worked six and a half years as head of corporate communications at Marakon Associates, another highly respected management consultancy. During his year as a German Chancellor Fellow, he interned in the press office of the Treuhandanstalt in Berlin. His work involved fielding media inquiries on the status of East German companies and industries, and assisting in the production of the privatization agency’s English-language newsletter. He also wrote freelance articles for German and American publications and audited classes at the Free University Berlin. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he taught as an adjunct professor for several years. (6/26/09)
Daniela Gerson (2006-07)
Daniela is working with the University of Southern California journalism school to launch a local news product for a predominantly immigrant Los Angeles community. She has covered immigration policy and foreign-born communities as a staff reporter with The New York Sun and contributed to the New York Times, Financial Times Magazine, WNYC: New York Public Radio, Spiegel Online, American Public Media, among other outlets. Daniela holds a BA from Brown University in International Relations and History, and an MA from University of Southern California School of Journalism. Her project during her German Chancellor Fellowship focused on what lessons can be learned from Germany's guest-worker program in forming contemporary immigration policy in Europe and the United States. She also produced a one-hour feature for Deutschlandradio Kultur on her experiences as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors living in Berlin. The piece was awarded a 2009 RIAS Berlin award. (6/19/09)
Sarah Kelly(2010-11)
Sarah Kelly is a broadcast journalist who most recently served as a producer and anchor for Bloomberg, L.P.’s Broadcast Division in New York. As a journalist committed to issues involving international affairs and the economy, she has worked, studied and traveled across Europe and Latin America. Ms. Kelly earned a BS in political science (magna cum laude) from Columbia University, where she was named a Trustee Scholar. Her thesis focused on the impact of American exceptionalism on the International Criminal Court. In her spare time she helps run the International Rescue Committee's Leaders in Training Program, which aides teenage refugees in adjusting to their new lives in New York.
As an Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow based in Berlin, Ms. Kelly will join Germany's Deutsche Welle Television to produce independent, investigative reports on innovations and efficiencies in the German automotive industry. Her reporting will be distributed through a variety of platforms--print, online and broadcast. With the goal of increasing transparency and uncovering business trends within the automotive sector, Ms. Kelly will highlight the strengths of German car manufacturers and what lies ahead in the wake of this most recent financial crisis.
(5/6/10)
Gilberto Pimentel (1990-91)
Gilberto is Director of Digital Media at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC. He spent his year in Germany at the Deutscher Fernsehfunk in Berlin. (6/8/07)
Amy Schwartz (1990-91)
As a German Chancellor Fellow, Amy pursued the project "The
Press and Reunification." She worked with the Tagesspiegel (Berlin) the Leipziger Volkszeitung (Leipzig), and the
German Archaeological Institute (Berlin). Upon her return to the
United States, Amy took a position as editorial writer for the Washington
Post. Her columns and essays have appeared there and in various
magazines. She has also done commentaries for National Public Radio.
Amy has a B.A. in Literature from Harvard University.
Niels Sorrells (2004-05)
Niels is an editor and reporter in Berlin for the English language service of dpa, the German Press Agency. As a German Chancellor Fellow, he used his background as a reporter to sort through the history of Germany’s surveillance and privacy laws to see how they evolved in the last century, whether they are adapted to the current efforts to control terrorism, and how they compare to similar U.S. laws. Niels spent five years as a defense and foreign policy reporter for Congressional Quarterly. He earned a master’s degree in international affairs from the George Washington University in 1999 and degrees in journalism and international studies from Bradley University in 1994. (6/26/09)
Amy (Slucter) Taylor (1998-99)
Amy Taylor works as a screenwriter. Following graduation from Stanford University with an honors degree in International Relations, she received a German Chancellor Fellowship to study the “language” of German silent film. After returning from Berlin, Amy began the M.F.A. Production Program at University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. At USC, Amy directed a number of films, including the documentary “Childless by Choice” and the narrative short “Robert and Theresa.” (6/26/09)
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