About Us 

Advisors

William F. Baker

Executive in Residence at Columbia University School of Business, Journalist in Residence at Fordham University and President Emeritus of WNET, the public television station in New York City.

 

Charles Eisendrath
Director of the Knight Wallace Fellows at the University of Michigan and former bureau chief for Time magazine.

 

Elizabeth Farnsworth
Special Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, with an extensive record of reporting from Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

 

Bill Kovach
Chair, Committee of Concerned Journalists, former curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard and former Washington bureau chief of the New York Times.

 

Jim Russell
Consultant, journalist and creator of numerous award‐winning programs, including such public radio staples as Marketplace and All Things Considered.

 

Brenda Wilson
Correspondent, Science Desk, National Public Radio, whose special emphasis is on issues in global and public health across the U.S., Africa and India.

 

Lindsay McCabe

Executive Director, Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, develops a variety of programming on ethical leadership for the university and community.

The Under-Told Stories Project is a collaborative project involving international journalism and teaching. We produce high-quality, multimedia reporting for public and commercial news outlets and engage students from Saint Mary's University in courses, internships and mentoring opportunities providing a forum for the critical reflection on the world's under-reported news stories, and hands-on skills in media production.

Fred de Sam Lazaro

Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent

Fred de Sam Lazaro is a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Hendrickson Institute for Ethical Leadership and director of the Under-Told Stories Project at St. Mary's University of Minnesota and a correspondent for PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Nicole See

Nicole See, Producer/Editor

Nicole See has produced stories and programs for PBS over the past decade.  She has produced reports from 40 countries on a wide variety of subjects.

Tom Adair, Videographer

Tom Adair, Videographer

Tom Adair has shot news, documentaries, feature films, commercials and all sorts of web content from every continent.

Skip Davis, Editor

Skip Davis has been editing video for the past 20 years, working on series, news and documentaries.

Rakesh Nagar, Videographer

Rakesh Nagar, Videographer

Rakesh Nagar shoots many of the stories that UTS produces in India.