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SPEAKER BIOS is the co-founder of SALTY Features, an independent production company based in New York City. Melamede’s most recent film and directorial debut is (DIS)HONESTY - THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES, based on the work of behavioral scientist Dan Ariely. Melamede’s producing credits include INOCENTE, winner of the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. is co-founder and Board of Trustees member of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a think tank located in the United States and focused on the study of migration policy worldwide, with a particular focus on the United States and Europe. She is also the director of the Migration, Migrants, and Development Program there and also leads the refugee protection work at MPI. is chairman of the board of 100Reporters and Double Exposure. He is a Washington correspondent for the New York Times who covers counterterrorism, cyber security, border and transportation security and domestic surveillance programs. He is author of Selling Apartheid: Apartheid South Africa’s Global Propaganda War (October, 2016). He is co-founder of TruthBeTold news, a fact-checking website and digital network, run and edited from Howard University’s Department of Media, Journalism, and Film in the School of Communication. is an Emmy-winning journalist and filmmaker whose credits include seven years as a producer-director on the acclaimed CBC investigative program “The Fifth Estate”. In 2003 he was Supervising Producer on“Perfect Illusions”, a PBS documentary about eating disorders in young women. His film on the childhood exploitation of the Dionne quintuplets was nominated for an Emmy in 1998, and he won an Emmy in 1989 for a film about wild horses rescued from starvation and abuse. 40 Please visit our website for more information