POYNTER - Key Persons


Alaina Borsari

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director
  • Fellowship Staff Member
  • Program Administrator / Assistant Director, Poynter Fellowship in Journalism

Allie Barton

Job Titles:
  • Video Producer / Editor

Allie Bensinger

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Media Relations Officer

Andrea MacAdam

Job Titles:
  • Director, Digital Strategy

Andrea Peed

Job Titles:
  • Associate Managing Editor / Senior Writer at Large

Andrew Hurley

Job Titles:
  • Video Producer / Editor

Ashley Blackwell

Job Titles:
  • Manager

Bess Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Media Relations Officer
  • Media Relations )

Beth Miller


Bianca Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Weekend Coordinator

Bill Buccheri

Job Titles:
  • Senior Digital Communications Officer

Bill Weir


Bliss Massaro

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Fellowship Staff Member
  • Administration
  • Chief of Administration Director, Poynter Fellowship in Journalism

Brenda Naegel

Job Titles:
  • Director, Recognition & Engagement

Charles Biada

Job Titles:
  • Signage Specialist

Christopher Renton


Dan Corcoran

Job Titles:
  • Communications Officer for Social Media

Dan Renzetti

Job Titles:
  • Director, Photography and Videography

Debra Kroszner


Emily DeFrances

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager

Emmy Award Winning

Job Titles:
  • Emmy Award Winning Journalist and Univision Primetime Anchor

Eric Gershon

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Director
  • Editorial

Fred Mamoun

Job Titles:
  • Media Relations Officer
  • Media Relations )

Georgina Gustin

Job Titles:
  • Reporter for Inside Climate News
Georgina Gustin is a reporter for Inside Climate News, where she covers the intersection of agriculture, food systems and climate change. She has twice been named the North American Agricultural Journalists Association Glenn Cunningham Agricultural Journalist of the Year and has received the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism, among other awards. She has worked as a reporter for The Day in New London, Conn., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and CQ Roll Call, and her stories have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and National Geographic's The Plate, among others. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Heather D'Auria


Ilia Calderón

Job Titles:
  • Emmy Award - Winning Journalist
  • Emmy Award Winning Journalist and Univision Primetime Anchor
Ilia Calderón is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, the co-anchor of Univision's flagship evening newscast Noticiero Univision, and cohost of Univision's primetime news magazine Aquí y Ahora. She is the first Afro-Latina to anchor a national weekday evening newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States, having previously co-anchored three other news desks for Univision and two for Telemundo. She is the author of My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race (2020).

Jaimee D'Agostino

Job Titles:
  • Communications Officer

Janet Jeddry

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Janet Sullivan


Jim Shelton

Job Titles:
  • Writer

JoAnn Piscitelli

Job Titles:
  • Digital Officer, Web Development

John Gambell

Job Titles:
  • Director, Office of the University Printer

John Lisone

Job Titles:
  • Tour Coordinator

Jon Atherton


Julienne Hadley

Job Titles:
  • Director, Strategic Communications

Justin Laing

Job Titles:
  • Website Manager

Karen Hao

Karen Hao covers China's tech sector and society for the Wall Street Journal. Previously, she was a senior AI editor at the MIT Technology Review. She has been a Harvard Technology and Public Purpose fellow, and an MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow. She has lectured at MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, NYU, and Notre Dame. and her writing has appeared in Quartz, Mother Jones, The New Republic, and other outlets. She received a B.S. in mechanical engineering and minor in energy studies from MIT.

Karen Peart - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Fellowship Staff Member
  • Interim Vice President for Communications Director, University Media Relations
  • Media Relations

Kassandra Haro

Job Titles:
  • Program Administrator

Kate Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Senior Communications Officer

Katie Goodridge

Job Titles:
  • Developer
  • Web Designer

Katie Kelley


Kevin Dennehy

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor

Kevin Han

Job Titles:
  • Woodbridge Fellow

Kimberly Pasko

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Kymiia Mood

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Assistant

Lalani Perry

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President for Internal Communications
  • Internal Communications

Lauren Langford


Lee Faulkner

Job Titles:
  • Digital Assets Manager

Linda Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Editor, Your Yale
  • Senior Communications Officer

Lisa Maloney

Job Titles:
  • Communications Officer

Mallory Locklear

Job Titles:
  • Writer

Marilyn Wilkes


Mark Stricker

Job Titles:
  • Director, Audience Insights

Maura Gianakos

Job Titles:
  • Fellowship Staff Member
  • Graphic Designer
  • Program Administrator

Maureen Farrell


Melissa Maier


Michael Cummings

Job Titles:
  • Writer

Michael Greenwood

Job Titles:
  • Senior Media Relations Officer

Michael Helfenbein

Job Titles:
  • Production Manager

Michael Morand


Nancy Franco

Job Titles:
  • Director, Visitor Center

Nathan Williams


Nelson Poynter

Nelson Poynter established the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism in 1967 to bring distinguished journalists who have made significant contributions in their fields to Yale.

Nicholas Kristof

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • Journalist
  • Journalist and Political Commentator, the New York Times
Poynter Fellow Nicholas Kristof is a U.S. journalist and political commentator. A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he is a regular CNN contributor and has been a columnist for The New York Times since 1984, focusing on global health, poverty, and gender issues in the developing world. He was a Rhodes Scholar and has won various prestigious prizes and honorary degrees. Together with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, he has authored five books.

Olivia Celeste

Job Titles:
  • Fellowship Staff Member
  • Program Coordinator
  • Senior Communications Assistant

Paige Stein


Patricia Carey


Patrick Pitoniak

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Peter Cunningham

Job Titles:
  • Editor, Yale Today

Rebecca Martz

Job Titles:
  • Associate University Printer

Renee Gaudette


Rick Harrison


Rob DeSanto

Job Titles:
  • Senior Digital Communications Officer

Sheila McCreven


Sidney Hirschman

Job Titles:
  • Rollins Fellow

Stephanie Reynolds Ramos

Job Titles:
  • Fellowship Staff Member
  • Program Administrator
  • Program Manager

Stephen Gamboa-Diaz

Job Titles:
  • Web Producer

Steve Aitken

Job Titles:
  • Bulletin Editor

Steven Padla


Susan González

Job Titles:
  • Writer

Tan Pin Pin

Job Titles:
  • Film Director and Producer
TAN PIN PIN is a Singapore-based film director and producer. She is known for her works interrogating the idea of Singapore. From traversing Singapore to find out how long it takes to cross the island to traversing the world to speak with her political exiles, her films question gaps in history, memory, and its documentation. Her films include Singapore GaGa [2005], Invisible City [2007], To Singapore, with Love [2013], and IN TIME TO COME [2017]. They have screened theatrically in Singapore and at the Berlinale, Hot Docs, Busan, Visions du Réel and at the Flaherty Seminar. She has had retrospectives at RIDM and Dok Leipzig. Tan has won awards from Cinéma du Réel, Dubai International Film Festival and Taiwan International Documentary Festival. She has mentored at DMZ, Busan and Asiadoc. She was a board member of the National Archives of Singapore and Singapore International Film Festival and a founding member of filmcommunitysg, an advocacy group for independent filmmakers. In 2018, she was one of two Singaporeans to be invited to join the Acadamy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, USA. tanpinpin.com

Tom Krattenmaker


Vanessa Macary

Job Titles:
  • Communications Officer

William Hathaway

Job Titles:
  • Writer