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A few weeks ago I jumped rope for the first time since the fifth grade. I remember how this was absolutely my favorite after-lunch activity on the blacktop with a group of girlfriends. more...
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Emily Wong's radio stories about Kenya have aired on the World Vision Report, the BBC World Service and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio program Dispatches.
At the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT), she worked as a consultant on gender equality programs, based in Nairobi, Kenya. In the United Kingdom, she has worked as a domestic violence victims' advocate. She lives in London.
Ben Gilbert is a freelance radio, newspaper and magazine reporter based in Beirut, covering Middle East news, culture, conflict and economics.
His reports from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates have aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Public Radio International's The World, American Public Media's Marketplace and Weekend America, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC and ABC Radio.
His magazine and newspaper articles have appeared in US News and World Report, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Telegraph and The San Francisco Chronicle.
He is currently the Lebanon correspondent for globalpost.com.
Kira Neel is a freelance journalist currently based in New York City. She works with youth around the world as a performer and workshop facilitator to document the effects of globalization and the happenings of an increasingly connected world. 
Don Duncan is a freelance print and radio reporter and videographer based in Beirut, Lebanon, where he covered the country's recent election, it's 2007 political crisis, and the conflict at the Nahr al Bared Palestinian camp.
His reporting has also brought him to Afghanistan, where he covered the plight of the country's disabled and the advances in development in the north of the country; to Miami, to look into the shifting power-play of Florida's Latino vote, between Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics; and most recently to Nepal and Bhutan where, funded by The Nation Institute in New York, he investigated the beginnings of an insurgency facing Bhutan as it settles into its newly-created democracy.
Originally from Ireland, Don speaks fluent French and Irish. He holds the Bachelor's degree in literature from Trinity College Dublin and Master's degrees in politics and journalism from Columbia University in New York.
Don's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is an independent radio producer. Her work has aired on Morning Edition, Weekend America, Marketplace, and Voice of America. She also worked for the United Nations Radio News Service in New York City. Anna is fluent in Japanese and Spanish -– with a smattering of French, Mandarin and Kinyarwanda.