Core Personnel
Alex Stonehill, Co-Founder & Editor
[email protected] | 206.403.3933
Alex is a visual journalist whose work has been published by PBS, The Seattle Times, FRONTLINE/World and the Seattle Weekly. He won the 2011 Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award for Online Video for his short documentary Never Going Home. Alex teaches journalism in the University of Washington’s Department of Communication and is a Storyteller in Residence for the Master of Communication in Digital Media program. Want to pitch a story to the Globalist? Write to Alex!
Sara Stogner, Editor & Youth Program Coordinator
[email protected] | 810.341.3902
Sara is a photojournalist, filmmaker and editor for The Seattle Globalist. She loves creating media on LGBTQ, women’s and social justice issues. She has worked for several daily midwest newspapers including The Flint Journal and The Columbia Missourian before moving to Seattle and is a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri. The best part of her job is training the next generation of journalists through our Globalist Youth programs. Want more info on the Globalist Youth programs? Write to Sara!
Sarah Stuteville, Co-Founder & Columnist
[email protected] | 206.403.3931
Sarah is a print and multimedia journalist whose work has been published by the Seattle Times, Global Post, the Seattle Weekly and KUOW, and a cofounder of the Common Language Project. Stuteville won the 2011 Sigma Delta Chi Award for magazine writing from the Society of Professional Journalists for her article The Return: One Marine’s story of a mission accomplished, but not really over, published by Pacific Northwest Magazine, as well as three 2011 Northwest Excellence in Journalism awards for that story and Never Going Home. In addition to reporting, Sarah teaches entrepreneurial journalism and documentary film-making at the University of Washington. She also writes a weekly column on international intersections in the Pacific Northwest for The Seattle Times and The Seattle Globalist.
Jessica Partnow, Co-Founder & Executive Director
[email protected] | 206.403.3932
Jessica is a radio journalist whose work has been published by NPR, KUOW, The World and Living on Earth. She was a Knight New Media Fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her radio series Life on the Duwamish received a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for News Series. She produced Generation Putin, an hour-long public radio special on young people and political change in the former Soviet Union, in January 2013. Jessica teaches entrepreneurial journalism at the University of Washington’s Department of Communication, and manages the Seattle Globalist Community Events Calendar. Want to list an event on our calendar? Interested in advertising with us? Write to Jessica!
Alma Khasawnih, Columnist
[email protected] | 206.685.7177
As I wear a plastic hot pink bling ring, watch the Golden Girls, I am writing about me. I was born in Amman to a Jordanian father and a Palestinian-Syrian mother. I immigrated to the US in 1996 and received a passport in 2002. I look like a Latina, Black woman, and of certain parts of southern Europe–most Arabs would not think of me as one of them. The city I feel most affinity to in the US is Detroit. Barcelona is where I want to grow old. Now I live in Seattle. I have no idea how to answer the question “where are you from?”
I write stories on love. I wish I could play the cello. I have two songs in my karaoke repertoire: Hello by Lionel Richie and I’m So Excited by the Pointer Sisters. The second comes with a show. Recently I tried a chi martini and it was delicious. As for my formal education; I have a degree in Environmental Science from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and an MA from Rhode Island School of Design in Community Art Education. In 1994, I started learning Spanish so I can visit Cuba and haven’t been there yet. I want to travel to Chile, Kenya, and main-land China—when I was younger I told my mother that I wish she were Chinese.
Currently, I am doctoral student at the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Department at the University of Washington. My focus is Arab women artists’ process and work within the context of the Arab Spring. My personal website can be accessed here.
Sabrina Roach, Community Engagement Director
[email protected] | 206.218.6416
Sabrina Roach is the Radio/New Media Doer at Brown Paper Tickets, where she identifies opportunities to help public and community radio build capacity. She has worked in Seattle area public media for the past eleven years – at KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW 94.9 Public Radio in production, development, membership, marketing, and community engagement. She’s a past board member of Reclaim The Media and co-coordinator of the NW Media Action Grassroots Network. She is currently part of the team helping Hidmo Eritrean Cuisine transition into Hidmo at Washington Hall in Seattle’s Central District where she has deep family roots.
Seattle Globalist Advisory Group
Athima Chansanchai, Microsoft; former Seattle P-I journalist
Tarek Dawoud, Microsoft; Islamic Speakers Bureau
Monica Guzman, Geekwire; Social Media Consultant; former Seattle P-I journalist
Rahwa Habte, Hidmo & OneAmerica
Naomi Ishisaka, SEIU; former editor, Colors Northwest; former Seattle Times journalist
Globalist Contributors
Abby Higgins (13)Abby Higgins is a travel writer and journalist who splits her time between Kenya and her hometown in Washington State. She speaks French and Swahili and received her BA in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College. In addition to writing, she has spent the past three years working in development and women’s rights in East Africa. You can read more of her writing at
abbyhiggins.com.
Allison Barrett (11)Allison Barrett is a journalism student at the University of Washington and a former intern for the Common Language Project. Her work has been published by the Seattle Times, Next Door Media, Northwest Asian Weekly and several other local news organizations.
Allison Int-Hout (6)Allison Int-Hout is a contributor to the Seattle Globalist and a recent grad from the UW journalism program. She is (mostly) fluent in Spanish and looks forward to adding more pins to the world map on her wall.
Alysa Hullett (2)Alysa Hullett is a UW student studying Journalism and Spanish and an editorial intern at Seattle magazine. Her work has been published in the UW Daily, International Examiner, Ballard News-Tribune, SnoValley Star, Kirkland Reporter and City-Living Seattle.
Amy Scott (2)Amy is a Seattle-based writer. She has written for The Daily, and The
Stranger and volunteers at a small movie house called Grand Illusion
Cinema in the U-district. When she's not writing, she's listening to
podcasts and books on tape (everyone always tells her she should be a
voice-over actor if writing doesn't work out).
Anna Chatilo (2)Anna Chatilo is a journalism undergraduate student at the University of Washington. She is an editorial intern at Seattle Met magazine where she writes for the food and style blogs. She is also an avid tango dancer.
Anna Goren (3)Anna Goren is a native Seattle-ite who is carrying on the Jewish tradition of having strong opinions about food. She has taught community nutrition and cooking classes, collaborated with farmers markets to glean produce for food banks, assisted a local healthy grocery startup, and apprenticed on an urban donation farm in Berkeley, CA. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal, QC where she studied International Development and Social Work. When she’s not thinking about social justice, Anna can be found biking around Seattle thinking about interesting sandwich combinations.
Brett Konen (4)Brett Konen graduated in May from Whitman College with degrees in Sociology and Politics. In between burning things in the kitchen and trying to figure out what she’ll do with her life, she enjoys reading, writing, wine and adventure.
Christan Leonard (3)Christan Leonard is a freelance journalist and photographer from Seattle, Washington. She has lived and worked in France, Kenya and Colombia and is eager to expand this list to include most of the known world. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2011 with degrees in international studies and economics. To see further examples of her work, visit her website at
www.christanleonard.com.
Cyan James (3)Cyan James is a PhD graduate student in the Institute for Public Health Genetics at the University of Washington, where she studies genetics, public health, and communications. She writes articles on health care, policy, and global health, and blogs at
www.sensecyan.blogspot.com<
Cynthia Steele (2)Cynthia Steele is Professor of Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego and has published criticism and translations of modern Mexican literature and film. She regularly teaches courses on Latin American literature, film and human rights issues.
Deric Gruen (4)Deric Gruen is a Seattle native who has traveled the globe on two legs, two wheels and uncounted barrels of oil. Deric works to offset his travel emissions leading the sustainability intiatives at Bellevue College. Deric founded Critical Mass Beirut, interned in Caribbean Affairs in the other Washington, volunteered in community development in Rio de Janeiro and assisted international delegations as a specialist for the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle.
Hallie Golden (6)Hallie Golden is a senior at Stony Brook University, majoring in journalism and music. She is a native of Seattle and is spending the summer as an intern at the Common Language Project, while freelancing for Seattle City Living. She loves to play violin and piano in her spare time, and is working towards a career as an international correspondent.
Ian Terry (4)Ian Terry is a freelance visual journalist and writer. His interests lie in anything and everything having to do with documentary photography, bicycles and Frank Zappa. His work can be seen at
www.ianaterry.com.
Jill Mangaliman (6)Jill Mangaliman is a queer, Fil-Am, jack of all trades community organizer from Seattle, focused on issues of racial, gender, and environmental justice. They are a founding board member of Got Green, and a member of the Healthy Food Access Team, BAYAN PNW, and Pin@y sa Seattle. For fun, they like singing/writing about love and revolution.
Joanne Silberner (2)Joanne Silberner spent 18 years at NPR as a health policy correspondent covering everything from the Food and Drug Administration to the chocolate industry in Brazil. She's now an Artist in Residence at the University of Washington Department of Communication, and continues to contribute to radio programs like PRI's The World and The BBC.
Joy Portella (2)Joy Portella is a Seattle-based communication consultant specializing in international development and health. She is currently working with Global Washington.
Judy Vue (2)Judy Vue is a freelance reporter and a 2009 graduate of the UW Department of Communication. She has written for the Seattle PI, the Highline Times, and has worked as a news radio producer for KUOW and KIRO. In her free time, she enjoys reading, swimming, and hiking, but is not very good at the last two. She also does volunteer work for Wing Luke Museum.
Justin Salhani (2)Justin Salhani is a Lebanese-American reporter/journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon. He primarily covers politics, security and cultural affairs in Lebanon and the Middle East.
Kat Chow (2)Kat Chow is a multimedia journalist who probably thinks about food too much. When Kat’s not thinking about chow — and yes, she’s aware that her name is a pun — she’s thinking about news. She writes about food and art for The Seattle Weekly, works with Allrecipes.com and is interning with The Seattle Times’ online team. In June, she’ll be moving to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to report for an English-language newspaper.
Katya Yefimova (2)Katya is a freelance journalist living in Seattle and working as a content producer for MSN.com. She was born and raised in the former Soviet Union.
Kelsie Mhoon (4)Kelsie Mhoon is a recent graduate from the University of Washington. She has written for several Next Door Media outlets and worked as an intern at Seattle Weekly. She is currently working as a research assistant and plans to study film in the near future.
Lila Kitaeff (3)Lila Kitaeff is an independent filmmaker, a radio DJ and a youth media educator at Seattle’s
Reel Grrls. She has traveled to 24 countries… so far.
Liliana Caracoza (5)Liliana Lopez Caracoza is a member the Seattle Globalist Youth Apprenticeship program. She is a student at Tacoma Community College, working to become a journalist. She sees journalism as a way to be aware of issues not just in the United States but in the whole world. She is interested in reporting on Mexico, especially the way the drug cartels affect the lives of everyday citizens.
Luzviminda Uruzi "Lulu" Carpenter (2)Luzviminda Uzuri Carpenter (pronounced Loose-b-min-dah ooh-zir-e car-pen-ter) aka Lulu, works for Historic Seattle as
Caretaker at
Washington Hall. Recently, she founded Uzuri Consulting & Productions and a collective called Green Bodies with other fierce womyn of color and KnowMades (a youth solidarity organization). Carpenter has worked with
Hidmo, Ladies First Collective Organizing Committee (an anti-rape collective), and
Pinay sa Seattle-GABRIELA. Carpenter has also worked in the fields of intimate partner violence & sexual violence with the Asian Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) and recently through YouthCare Orion Center. She has honed her passion skills for youth advocacy and mentorship for the past 8 years at YouthCare James W. Ray Orion Center Drop-in & Outreach Team, Franklin High School Political Science & Public Service Academy,
the Service Board,
Seattle Young People’s Project, and
Seattle YouthSpeaks
Mackenzie Ciesa (2)Mackenzie Ciesa is a junior at the University of Washington, majoring in journalism and sociology. After graduating high school, she moved from sunny Southern California to Seattle to pursue her lifelong dream of studying journalism at UW. In between making that happen, Mackenzie also enjoys traveling, interning at a local wedding company, attending live shows and any and all types of adventures.
Marla Smith-Nilson (2)Marla Smith-Nilson is the founder and Executive Director of Water 1st, a Seattle-based non-profit devoted to helping the world’s poor meet their needs for safe water. She has overseen the implementation of over 600 community water projects in Latin America, Asia and Africa benefiting 250,000 people.
Melanie Eng (2)Melanie Eng is an undergraduate at the University of Washington studying journalism, international policy and global communications. She has covered immigration, health care and and social activism as a student reporter, and is a former arts + culture intern for
Seattleite magazine.
Mohammad Ismail (3)Mohammad Ismail is a journalist from the northwest of Pakistan, where state security forces are at war with Taliban militants. He lives in Seattle and can be reached at
[email protected].
Muatasim Qazi (6)Muatasim Qazi is a Pakistani journalist now living in exile in the US. He is assistant editor for
The Baloch Hal, an online newspaper which reports human rights violations and religious extremism in Balochistan and has been banned by Pakistani authorities. He can be reached at
[email protected]
Reagan Jackson (4)Reagan Jackson received her BA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington and her MA in International Education from SIT Graduate Institute. She is a writer, artist, community organizer, and international educator. She has published three collections of poetry and is working on her first novel all while fighting against the forces of evil (aka Wal-Mart)
Roxana Norouzi (6)Roxana Norouzi has worked with immigrant and refugee populations in the Seattle area for the past 10 years. Currently, she provides strategic guidance around education policy and implementation for
OneAmerica, Washington State’s largest immigrant right’s organization. In 2010, Roxana was awarded the University of Washington’s Bonderman Fellowship which allowed her to
travel to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, East Africa, West Africa and South America. Roxana's views are her own and don't necessarily represent OneAmerica.
Simona Trakiyska (2)Simona Trakiyska is a journalist, freelance writer and a world traveler with a global mindset. She is based in the Pacific Northwest and her focus is on international affairs, political issues and human rights. She is passionate about ethnic equality and global respect.
Valeria Koulikova (4)Valeria Koulikova is a journalism student at the University of Washington. Being Russian and a proud member of the international community of Seattle, she is excited to pursue writing and multimedia career in international journalism.
Yvonne Rogell (3)Yvonne Rogell is a journalism student and freelance writer from Stockholm, Sweden, currently living in Seattle. When not studying journalism, she enjoys rock climbing, running and blogging about bread on her new blog,
bitterbaker.com.
Christian Zerbel (7)
Elizabeth Ralston (2)
Mohini Patel Glanz (2)
by Tommy
"The above picture shows that the Palestinians showing their a$$ facing Dome of the Rock. "