"Photography is my second life," says Jean Marc, a diplomat by training and a former employee of the Haitian foreign affairs ministry. Since returning to school for a diploma in photography, however, he has immersed himself in photojournalism, which he says he approaches with the eye of an artist. A member of the Kolektif 2 Dimansyon, he has been published by Le Nouvelliste, AP, Washington Post, Yahoo News, France 24, Radio Canada, CBC News and collaborated with Discovery Channel.

Vladimir is a reporter for Radio Kisekya and a trainee pastor.

Michel Joseph was born in Port-au-Prince in 1988. He studied journalism at the Institut Supérieur de Communication de de langue Française. He is a member of the Union International de la Presse Francophones. He works as a reporter for Radiotelevision Caraibes. He is one of the few reporters in Haiti to specialize in social issues, and has received international recognition for his pioneering work in the field. Among his awards are the Young Journalist in Haiti (2015), the Prix Philippe Chaffanjon for Multimedia Reporting (2016), the Super Prix Jeune Francophone (2017) and the Prix de Personnalite Radio TV & Internet (2017).

Born in Port-au-Prince in 1984, Edine is a photographer and human rights activist. Her first studies were in social work at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the State University of Haiti, before discovering her true calling. She then studied photography at the Centre d'Etudes Photographique et Cinematographiques in Port-au-Prince, subsequently taking workshops with well-known photographers Paolo Woods, Gael Turine, Gabriele Galimberti, Magdalena Herrer and Nicola Lo Calzo. She works as a photojournalist with the newspaper Le Nouvelliste, where she also does print reporting. She is a founding member of the photographers' collective Kolektif 2 Dimansyon and she has worked with international media outlets such as Le Monde and Mediapart, as well as with businesses, NGOs and other private organizations. She is currently engaged in a documentary project about the 1969 massacre in Cazal (Haiti), under the direction of lo Calzo, whom she considers a mentor and role-model. One of Edine's goals as a photographer is to bring down the barriers between artisitic and documentary photography.

Harold Isaac is in charge of Technology for Radio Kiskeya S.A. in Haiti and local director for ZenoMedia, a US technology company and media partner in Haiti.

Harold runs a weekly column about technology called “TeknoSyans” on
Radio Kiskeya.

Harold is a graduate of Concordia University (Canada). He holds a bachelor's degree in electroacoustics with a specialty in audio technique and sound design. Harold also has a background in network administration and computer systems.

Vanessa has been a journalist for four years, and is currently employed by Radio Tele Metropole, one of Port-au-Prince's largest broadcasters. Before that she worked for Radio Lumiere.

She loves covering social themes, subjects that Haitians are often unfamiliar with, or prefer not to discuss publicly. These include female sexuality, child abuse, Haitian albinos and poverty in some of Haiti's less visible slumns. During Haiti's recent civil strife, she produced a story on a group of young singers in a Port-au-Prince ghetto trying to use their voices to bring peace. The story is currently competing for an OIF journalism award.

Vanessa also studied theology at the "Universite Lumiere de Carrefour".

Jean Pharés Jérôme is an editor at Le Nouvelliste, Haiti's largest and oldest daily newspaper. He started working at the newspaper as a reporter in 2006, covering Haitian politics, economics, and since 2010, Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction. He was the winner of the HIV/AIDS contest organized by Panos Caraibes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in December 2006. He aspires to train other Haitian journalists to connect more intimately with their subjects. He has published a collective book Portraits parlementaires and another on the Haiti post-earthquake. Jerome has a Bachelors degree in Social Communication and a Masters degree in Population and Development from the State University of Haiti. He has also studied development journalism at the India Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in India.

Reginald Louissaint Junior is a Haitian documentary photographer. He was born in 1986 and is a founding member of the Haitian photographers' collective Kolektif 2 Dimansyon. After studying linguistics, he turned to photography, with a strong interest in documentary style. Among his works are "Les hotels de luxe" and "Grand Rue", published with the help of Fokal. In 2015, he held a residency in the Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Photographie d'Arles in France. His photos has been exhibited in the exhbition "Visa pour l'image" in Perpignan in 2017, along with other members of K2D. He has also collaborated with national and international press, including Le Nouvelliste, Le Monde and USA Today.

Aida is a freelance journalist who covers North Africa and other places. She regularly contributes to The New York Times, Al Jazeera English, Foreign Policy, the Financial Times and USA Today. She grew up in Marrakesh and moved to New York City at the age of 18. She got her BA in Media Studies from Hunter College and her Masters in Journalism from Columbia University. She is  also a member of Associated Reporters Abroad and on the advisory board of the 2014 Peabody Award winner Round Earth Media.

Amy is an independent reporter and radio producer who covers migration, economic development and human rights. She is based in Boston but has reported extensively from Haiti over the last decade, as well as from elsewhere in the Caribbean, Central and North America, and Europe. She is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she wrote a Master's thesis on the detention of asylum-seekers. For her reporting on psychological trauma post-earthquake in Haiti, she received the Mental Health America award. As a French-American Foundation Immigration Journalism Fellow, she visited detention and alternatives in Florida and Texas. And with a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, she interviewed sugar cane workers and employers in the Dominican Republic as a part of her research into labor protections in international trade agreements. Her radio pieces have been broadcast by PRI’s The World, Latino USA, and NPR, and her articles have appeared in Al Jazeera America, The Christian Science Monitor, and Foreign Policy, among others.

Conrad lived in Mexico for 15 years, where he worked as freelance radio and print reporter. His work appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR and CBC, as well as Christian Science Monitor and Canadian Press. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he runs a local soccer club for immigrant youth. He is currently writing a web app to take the drudgery out of radio reporting. Find out more at his page.

Beverley Abel originally from South Africa, spent a decade in London producing TV documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and CBC. In the US, she completed a Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She was a producer at NPR affiliate WUNC for several years before becoming Senior Producer of the World Vision Report. During her tenure, the show won 23 prestigious national awards, including two Edward R. Murrows, and a Gracie award for the Best National Radio magazine program. Her recent work includes Latitudes, a global affairs series for WAMU in Washington DC, documentaries for WUNC/CPB (The American Graduate series; Returning to Haiti) and an 8-part TV series for Al Jazeera (English).

Mike Zerby is an award-winning photojournalist and educator. He was an associate director of the International Photojournalism Workshops, sponsored by the University of Missouri in Bulgaria and Hungary and a faculty member for Somosfoto workshop in Quito, Ecuador sponsored by the University of Miami. In addition to a long career at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Zerby has photographed for the New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Forbes and Geoworld among other publications. His assignments were many and varied, and included being embedded with invading Marines during the recent Iraq war, where he shot stills and video for his paper.

Co-founder of Round Earth Media, Mary Stucky is the Executive Director and lead journalist.
She has broad media experience as a long-time contributor to national shows on public and commercial radio and TV, including shows on National Public Radio, Public Radio International and America Public Media (e.g., Marketplace, The World, All Things Considered), CBS Radio, FRONTLINE/World, NBC-TV and ABC-TV affiliates, Telemundo, and Univision.
In 2012, Stucky launched a ground-breaking program in Morocco, working one-on-one with college students who aspire to be the next generation of foreign correspondents.  This first-of-its-kind program devoted to global journalism is in collaboration with SIT Study Abroad.
Stucky’s reports on Chinese and Hmong immigrants were part of the documentary series “Crossing East,” which won a 2006 Peabody Award, broadcasting’s highest honor. Her reporting awards also include the New York Festival’s Gold World Medal.
Prior to founding Round Earth, Stucky was a reporter/anchor for the NBC-TV affiliate in Minneapolis. She is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.

Mark Porubcansky, former foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been a correspondent, editor and analyst of international news for more than 30 years.

In an 11-year career as a correspondent for The Associated Press, he was based in Moscow, Vienna and Hong Kong. In Moscow, Porubcansky covered Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Based in Vienna, he reported on the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s and Central Europe’s transition from communism, as well as directing coverage by a team of two dozen journalists. In Hong Kong, he reported on the immediate aftermath of the territory’s handover to Chinese rule.

At the Los Angeles Times, he was the lead editor on global projects that won major U.S. journalism awards, shaped coverage of news events and managed correspondents on five continents. Times correspondents reporting to Porubcansky were finalists for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for their coverage from both sides of the Syrian civil war. Porubcansky now writes on foreign affairs for MinnPost, an online news site based in Minneapolis-St. Paul.