Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Executive Director

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  Bruce Shapiro

  Executive Director

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  Bruce Shapiro is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide from the Center’s headquarters at Columbia University in New York City. An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice and politics, Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation and U.S. correspondent for Late Night Live on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National.

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York City

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  Kate Black

  Associate Director

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  Kate Black is associate director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide from the Center’s headquarters at Columbia University in New York City. She oversees all of the Dart Center’s programs and activities in North America, including the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, the Ochberg Fellowships, the Dart Academic Fellowships, as well as national and regional specialized reporting workshops, public events and partnerships. For seven years prior to joining the Dart Center, Kate was a program officer at the Open Society Foundations where she directed the Soros Justice Fellowships and founded and directed the Katrina Media Fellowships, each $1 million grantmaking programs.

  She was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in New York for 1999-2000 and a Princeton Project '55 Fellow in Washington D.C for 1998-1999. Kate has served on the selection committees of several social documentary, media and advocacy awards programs, and as a consultant to several non-profit journalism and social justice organizations.

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  Kelly Boyce

  Administrative Coordinator

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  Kelly Boyce is the administrative coordinator for the Dart Center.  She is also a candidate for the Master of Science in Journalism degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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  Ari L. Goldman

  Faculty Fellow

  Ari L. Goldman is a professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism where he has taught a seminar called “Covering Religion” for nearly two decades. With the support of the Scripps Howard Foundation, Goldman has taken his “Covering Religion” students on study-tours of Italy, Ireland, India, Russia, Israel and the Palestinian territories to look at the role of religion in global conflict. He has also led groups of journalism students from various schools to Poland and Germany as part of a program called Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics.

  Goldman pioneered a course at Columbia in “The Journalism of Death and Dying” which covers everything from writing obituaries to covering suicides, memorials and mass death. Goldman is a former New York Times religion writer and the author of the best-selling book “The Search for God at Harvard.” His most recent book is a memoir about death and loss, “Living a Year of Kaddish.”

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  Ariel Ritchin

  Program Associate

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  Ariel Ritchin is the program associate for the Dart Center. A recent graduate of Middlebury College, he has previously worked in the multimedia department at the ACLU and as a video editor for Lucky Tiger Productions. He is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow and a Posse Foundation Scholar.

   

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  Julian Rubinstein

  Web Editor

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  Julian Rubinstein is the web editor for the Dart Center. He is an award-winning journalist, producer, author of Ballad of the Whiskey Robber (Little, Brown) and founder of Newsmotion.org. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Details, Salon and has been honored by Best American Essays, Best American Crime Writing and twice by Best American Sports Writing. For more details, see julianrubinstein.com.

University of Tulsa, Oklahoma

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  Elana Newman

  Research Director

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  Elana Newman, McFarlin Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa, has conducted research on a variety of topics regarding the psychological and physical response to traumatic life events, assessment of PTSD in children and adults, journalism and trauma, and understanding the impact of participating in trauma-related research from the trauma survivor's perspective.

  She is a past president of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, the world’s premier organization dedicated to trauma treatment, education, research, public policy concerns and theoretical formulation.  Her work in journalism and trauma has focused on occupational health of journalists and she and her students have several studies underway examining the effects of journalistic practice upon consumers.  She was the key investigator on the Dart Center's research survey on photojournalists' exposure to trauma. She co-directed the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s first satellite office in NYC after 9-11

University of Texas, Austin

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  Donna DeCesare

  Latin America Coordinator and Dart Media Curator

  Donna DeCesare is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas School of Journalism, a faculty affiliate of the Latin American Studies program, and an Advisory Board member of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.

  A documentary photographer known for her work on youth identity and gang violence, she coordinates the Dart Center's activities throughout Latin America and curates visual journalism for Dart Media.

Dart Centre Asia Pacific

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  Amantha Perera

  Country Contact, Sri Lanka

  Amantha Perera is a foreign correspondent