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.
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