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SPEAKER BIOS WENDY LEVY is the Director of New Arts Axis. She is also a Senior Consultant with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the Co-Founder of Sparkwise, an online data and story platform funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. CHARLES LEWIS, a former ABC News and 60 Minutes producer, founded the Investigative Reporting Workshop and before that the Center for Public Integrity and its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Lewis recently helped create the Investigative News Network, comprised of more than 90 nonprofit news publishers. He is a professor at American University School of Communication. KATHLEEN LINGO is the coordinating producer of The New York Times’ Op-Doc series. Before joining The Times, she worked on news and documentary projects at HBO, IFC, WNYC, and Jigsaw Productions. Last year, she won an Emmy as part of the team for A Short History of the Highrise produced by The New York Times and the National Film Board of Canada. RICHARD LOGAN is the founding executive of a UK-based Mac software company, and is president of The Reva and David Logan Foundation of Chicago. The foundation is a substantial program contributor to the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago and invests in investigative journalism in the U.S. and Europe. Please visit our website for more information and program updates 37