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Malkia Amala Cyril
Director
Malkia Amala Cyril is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, CA.- a national media strategy and action center building a powerful grassroots movement for racial and economic justice through media change.  Key projects include the ... > > read more

Chris Lymbertos
Associate Director
Born and raised in Iran by Syrian and Armenian parents, Chris came to the Bay in 1976 to attend college with plans to return to the Middle East to teach. As a result of the changes in social and political conditions due to the revolution in Iran and the subsequent war, ... > > read more

Karlos Gauna Schmieder
Media Strategist
Karlos Gauna Schmieder is a community organizer and media strategist from Albuquerque, NM. For nearly a decade, Karlos worked as a community and communications organizer with SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP). He is the former editor of Voces Unidas. He now works as ... > > read more

Mervyn Marcano
An accomplished communicator and organizer, Mervyn Marcano has worked on a variety of local and national campaigns. Most recently, Mervyn was Communications Director at ColorOfChange.org, the 400,000 member Black online advocacy group founded in the wake of Hurrica... > > read more

Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Si Se Puede Training and Technology Coordinator
A 29-year-old resident of San Francisco, Samhita grew up in New York and did her undergraduate at SUNY Albany in Sociology and Women's Studies. For six years she worked as a San Francisco public school teacher, teaching in Hunter's Point, the Fillmore and Potrero Hill.... > > read more

Carlo Albano
Development Strategist
Carlo Albano joins us as an activist, journalist, and musician hailing from Milwaukee, WI. Carlo Albano is a Filipino who carries the struggle in his heart, his pen, and his music. After a year spent of travel and cultural research in his home islands of the Philippin... > > read more

Brandon Lacy Campos
National Media Justice Organizer
Brandon Lacy Campos, 30, was described by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune in 2006 as a "Young Wonk to Watch." He recently joined the staff of the Center for Media Justice as the Grassroots Media Policy Advocate after a year and a half as a fellow and Associate Director... > > read more

Rashida Jivraj
Operations Manager
As the Operations Manager, Rashida Jivraj joins the Center for Media Justice with a host of diverse living and working experiences.  Born in Tanzania, raised in Kenya, educated in Canada and most recently moved from London, UK where she has lived for the past thirteen ... > > read more

Oshen Turman
Executive Assistant
Oshen Turman is a 27 year old East Oakland native. She is a writer, artist, activist and student of healthy living. She has been involved in social justice work for the past 9 years, beginning during her senior year of high school through speaking on panels on issues su... > > read more

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Frontera Norte Sur

Will Immigrants Clinch the 2008 Election?
October 27, 2008
Frontera Norte Sur

Proposition 6: "Safe Neighborhoods Act" May Do The Opposite, Opponents Say
October 24, 2008
Lori Abbott/Elizabeth Grattan

The LAPD and racial profiling
October 23, 2008
By Ian Ayres

No Cure for Racism; Treat the Symptoms
October 23, 2008
Morris W. O'Kelly

Caifornia Props. 6 & 9 Bad Deals say LA Activists
October 6, 2008
Shirley Hawkins

Local Community Radio Act will increase voices, choices
September 25, 2008
Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media

Local Community Radio Act will increase voices, choices
September 25, 2008
Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media

Prop 6 Hurts Black Youth
September 16, 2008
Nikki Jones

FCC Ruling Strip-Mines the Requirements of Data Collection on AT&T, Verizon and Qwest.
September 10, 2008
Bruce Kushnick