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Jocelyn Brick-Turin, 20, is an undergraduate student at NYU majoring in journalism and minoring in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. Originally from Fairfax, Virginia, she has studied at Penn State University, Tel Aviv University and at New York University’s campuses in London and Manhattan. Her print experience includes The Daily Collegian and The Boston Phoenix newspapers and Graphic Design: usa magazine. After extensive travel in the West, Jocelyn is looking forward to exploring Russian culture through both print and broadcast journalism this summer. She expects to graduate in December 2005 and either serve in the Peace Corps in Ghana or move to Israel.

Erin Coe is a graduate journalism student pursuing her master’s degree at New York University. She has published articles in a number of Brooklyn weekly newspapers, and has more than three years copy editing experience at UC Santa Barbara’s daily newspaper. As a San Francisco native, she has traveled across the country and now across the world with the hope of one day coming full circle and planting herself back in her hometown as a no-nonsense newspaper reporter. So far, Erin has enjoyed the warm southern hospitality in Rostov-on-Don, the addictive coffee for just 6 rubles, and the carefree walks up and down the leafy-green Pushkinskaya.

Erin Marie Daly is a graduate journalism student at NYU in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. A San Francisco native and graduate of UC Berkeley, she contributes to the e-magazine Voices Unabridged and proudly represents Brooklyn as a freelancer for the Brooklyn Papers. She has taught English in India and worked with international aid organizations in the Burmese refugee camps in Northern Thailand. Fear of stray bullets prevents her from becoming a full-fledged war correspondent, so her reporting focuses on refugee and human rights issues. However, the unique fashion of Rostov has sparked her interest in the cultural significance of spike heels.

Kate Greer is a graduate newspaper student at NYU’s journalism department. Her writing has appeared in Manhattan South, the Brooklyn Rail, the Jewish Week, Amsterdam News and Let’s Go travel guides. She attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, receiving her BA with honors in Government. She is currently living in New York although a calling to the mountains may draw her west upon completion of her program… she has led backpacking trips and instructed skiing, as well as instructed children in basic rock-climbing, rafting, and outdoor survival. And of course, she enjoys doing all these things herself!

John Matson is a graduate journalism student at New York University. Born and raised in Nevada City, California, he graduated from Pomona College in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. While at Pomona, he also wrote for “The Student Life,” the college newspaper. Before enrolling at NYU in 2004, he worked as a grocery clerk, an outreach worker, an “information coordinator,” a plant waterer, a box-office manager, and a waiter. His writing is primarily focused on cultural matters, especially music and sports. He has written several articles on basketball for Dime Magazine.

Mary Lynn Morse Pilon I is a native of Eugene, OR, where she got her start passing gossip-filled notes and reading comic books. She worked Eugene’s Register-Guard features section for two years where she reported about everything from mullets to sexuality to religion. During high school, Mary founded the Stall Street Journal, a student publication that circulated in the bathrooms and developed a nerdy interest in government. With her spicy portfolio, Mary earned a fatty USA Today/Freedom Forum Journalism Scholarship and admission to New York University’s College of Arts and Science where she is in her second year of studying journalism and politics. Mary worked as Assistant Managing Editor for NYU’s Washington Square News, wrote oodles about politics and will study abroad in Madrid this fall. Excellente? Fo shizzle.

Vijai Singh is a rising senior in the College of Arts and Science. She is double-majoring in History and Journalism with a focus in Broadcast Journalism. She has interned for the press office of Senator Hillary Clinton, and for ABC’s Investigative Unit. She has also worked as a broadcast intern for Forex Television.

Christina Therrien is a junior at New York University, double majoring in Journalism and Psychology. She is one of the founding editors of Baedeker, NYU’s new travel publication and enjoys traveling and writing fiction in her free time.

Brad Tytel is a graduate student in the Culture Reporting and Criticism program, part of NYU’s department of Journalism. He graduated with honors from Amherst College in 2002, where he majored in Peace and Development Studies, an interdisciplinary program of his own design. He has previously studied and traveled abroad in Europe, Nepal, Israel and New Zealand. His work has been published in several local periodicals, and he has produced several documentary radio pieces for the nationally syndicated public radio program Studio 360. Though academically minded, Brad is also an experienced filmmaker, fiction writer, humorist and improvisational comedian. He has worked in politics, education, online personal ads, and housecleaning.

Yana Alexeeva is an undergraduate student at Rostov State University’s Department of Journalism, concentrating on international journalism. She has researched for a three years on foreign expansion in Russian print and broadcast media. She is going to continue her theoretical work in this direction, hoping it will contribute toward her degree. She will continue her education in journalism and next year take her final exams, defending a thesis and become an international journalism specialist. Since the first year at university, Yana has worked as a freelancer for Rostov papers such as Molot, Nachichevan na Dony, Novaya gorodskaya gazeta, Krestianin, and Exclusive-Personal Publishing house, focusing on the sport, culture, education, and fashion fields. From November, 2004, to February, 2005, she held the position of a second chief-editor substitute in the Rostov Navigator magazine. Now she is contributing with Krestianin Publishing House, Exclusive-Personal Publishing house and Rostov region Election committee magazine Vash Vybor.

Veronika Bekkaruk graduated from Kuban State University, Department of Journalism. There she was one of several participants who created the student newspapers of the Journalism Department “Journalism Home”, “Infolyot”, and “Bonjour”. She has worked on probation for the Saint-Petersburg TV-Station “NTV-Petersburg”. Veronika worked as a correspondent for local TV-station “AVS”. She plans to become famous TV-journalist. Veronika likes sport, sad movies and books, uncommon persons, funny journeys. And most of all she likes to spend free time with her friends.

Olga Bramnik graduated from Rostov State University in 2004, Faculty of Journalism and Philology, department of Roman-Germanic languages. Since Sept. 2002 she has been a student of the Free Russian - German Institute of Journalism, where she is getting additional education in Journalism. She works as a university assistant at Rostov State Economic University and teaches German. She is also a freelance journalist and writes for different papers both in Russian and in German. Last summer she worked as a trainee for a German desk of the Moscow German Newspaper (Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung) and she published her articles in this newspaper. During the last eight months she has been working on a film project “I am (not) a foreigner!” within the framework of Theodor-Heuss-College, and in July 2005 her team is going to introduce the film at the final seminar in Berlin. This year she won a DAAD grant to study at the Free University of Berlin and to work at the desk of a Berlin local newspaper. Starting in September 2005 she is going to spend three months working in Berlin.

Natasha Chizhova is a fourth year undergraduate student at the Rostov State University. She is currently studying International Journalism. Her theoretical research deals with public broadcasting in USA, Germany and Great Britain. She was a freelancer writing profiles and sport stories for different Rostov papers, such as Vpered, Molot, Krestaynin, and Vash vybor. Her hobbies are taking photos, cooking tasty things and playing sports. Most of all she likes tennis and football.

Tatyana Fedorova is a postgraduate student at the Stavropol State University. She studies and teaches at the journalism department of Stavropol State University and freelances for local news outlets. She’s curious, easy-going, frank. She likes movies and reads a lot. She adores cats.

From Kate Kanygina: If someone said to me ten years ago that I would be a journalist I wouldn’t believe them. Of course, I am just a student. But I know that I will not be able to look at life as a “mere mortal” anymore, because of the so-called “pioneer’s conscience” of a journalist. I have become aware of the responsibility I have got with the status ‘journalist’. I understand that I can speak, and moreover that is my must. My colleagues at the first newspaper I worked in showed me this. And I thank them. I thank them for the patience with which they were explaining this to me, what journalism was and how the work was important. I thank them for their belief in me. They believed that I was capable of helping people write about their troubles and problems. Since my childhood I have been mad about movies about detectives and the police. I dreamed about working in the Press Service of the Police Department. And I got it. Being a small part of the wheel of the huge justice machine is as difficult and at the same time as simple as clockwork. After this summer, I will be working for the advertising campaign of the first Russian Center of Private Psychology, that will be opened in Rostov-on-Don.

Alina Klimenko is a student of the 5th year of the faculty of Philology and Journalism at Stavropol State University. She is majoring in Public Relations, which she finds very interesting and promising. After graduation from the University, she plans to work in a Press Service (She doesn’t know which one exactly, but hopes that it will be connected with politics).

My name is Natasha Livshits and my biography is typical for a student of our country. I was born and have grown up in Rostov-on-Don and now I’m 19. I study at Rostov State University in the faculty of foreign journalistic. I finished musical school in piano and was going to study in a conservatory, but at the last minute decided that I want to be a journalist. As for my hobbies, they are different: yoga, digital photo, camping trips to the mountains, music, and books. Now I work at the Rostov regional internet-portal ROSTOV.RU in the culture and entertainment department. I do not like to count chickens until they are hatched, but I think I will make a good journalist. Photo gallery: www.rostov.ru/gal_natashkin

Anya Semenova graduated from Kuban State University, Department of Journalism. She has worked on probation for the Saint-Petersburg TV-station “ The 5-th channel” and The Agency of Journalists Investigation by A. Konstantinov. Anya worked at the local entertainment newspaper (TV-guide) «Vse TV» for a year. She dreams of being an international journalist, because she loves English. Annie likes American psychological thrillers, hard-rock music, Dalmatians, Disney’s cartoons, spicy food, travel and easy-going persons with good sense of humour.