Jody Avirgan

Presenter
Jody Avirgan is host of the Radiotopia podcast This Day In Esoteric Political History and the executive producer of the podcast What Now with Trevor Noah. He was also host of Good Sport from the TED Audio Collective. From 2017-2020, Jody ran and hosted 30 for 30 Podcasts (part of ESPN Films) and FiveThirtyEight Podcasts with Nate Silver. Prior to arriving at ESPN/538, he was a producer at WNYC Radio’s Brian Lehrer Show and he has worked with shows such as On The Media, Marketplace, Freakonomics, 99% Invisible, and many more. His production company is Roulette Productions. Avirgan grew up in Costa Rica, lives in Brooklyn, and is one of those people who takes Ultimate Frisbee way too seriously.

Jeff Cohen

Presenter

Jeff Cohen founded the media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in the Media) in 1986 and co-founded the online activist group RootsAction, org in 2011. Cohen was also founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he was an associate professor of journalism. He has co-produced documentary movies, including The Corporate Coup D'Etat and All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I.F. Stone. Cohen is the author of Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, and he has been a TV commentator at CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.

Fern Fleckman

Producer

Felice Gelman

Presenter & Host
Felice Gelman, MA, MBA, (LLI) is a retired investment manager. She has traveled extensively in Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. She spent the last 18 years working to support a theatre and cultural center in the city of Jenin in the West Bank of Palestine—The Freedom Theatre. She also helped produce three of The Freedom Theatre’s plays in the United States. Most recently, she enjoyed working on the Bard LLI multipresenter class Immigration—Too Hot to Handle?

Amy Goodman

Presenter

Martha Honey

Presenter & Host
Martha Honey, PhD, (LLI) worked as a journalist for 20 years in Africa and Central America, reporting for BBC Radio, NPR, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The New York Times. She is active in LLI’s DEI/Social Justice Team and has helped produce courses on African Americans and Native Americans in the Hudson Valley, Racism and the Rise of the Right, and US Immigration Policy.

Patricia Keeton

Presenter & Host
Pat Keeton, PhD, (LLI) earned her degree in cinema studies from NYU. She is emerita professor of communication arts at Ramapo College of NJ. She and Peter Scheckner co-authored American War Cinema and Media Since Vietnam, Ideology and Class (2013). Her areas of research and publication include Latin American media and cinema, global media, film genre, and social class representation.

Peter Kornbluh

Presenter

Peter Kornbluh has worked at the National Security Archive since 1986 and currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. Kornbluh’s numerous books include Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana, a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year. His articles have been published in Foreign Policy, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. He has appeared on national television and radio broadcasts, including 60 Minutes and Fresh Air, and has worked on numerous documentary films.

Alison Stanger

Presenter

Alison Stanger is a professor at Middlebury College; Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard; Co-Director of GETTING-Plurality Research Network, Harvard; a founding member of the Digital Humanism Initiative (Vienna); and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Stanger’s writing has appeared widely in both academic and mainstream media.  She has written several books, is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and co-editor of Introduction to Digital Humanism: A Textbook.