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AFTERWORDS

Date Guest Creative & Cast Moderator
January 9
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Sebastian Junger,
Jack Saul, PhD
Daniel Sullivan David Shookhoff
January 16
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Brooke Gladstone,
Lori Grinker
Donald Margulies Lisa McNulty

SEBASTIAN JUNGER is the author of three New York Times bestselling books including The Perfect Storm which was turned in a major motion picture. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories in Kosovo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan. His work has also appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Men’s Journal. He has been awarded the National Magazine Award for reporting for his October 1999 Vanity Fair article, “The Forensics of War,” and an SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism. He is also the recipient of a 2009 Alfred I. duPont Award. The documentary, Restrepro, which he co-directed with Tim Hetherington, is an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film festival.

JACK SAUL, Ph.D is an assistant professor of clinical population and family health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and director of the International Trauma Studies Program, a research and training institute. As a psychologist he has created a number of programs in New York City and abroad for populations that have endured war, torture and political violence and is known for his innovative work integrating testimony, healing, media, and the performing arts. Dr. Saul consults to news organizations on staff welfare and provides therapeutic services for journalists and others returning from war and other humanitarian crises. He has a private practice in Manhattan.

BROOKE GLADSTONE is host and Managing Editor of NPR’s “On the Media.” Brooke started out in print journalism, writing on defense policy, strip-mining, broadcasting and cable TV. Her freelance pieces (on topics ranging from orgasmic Russian faith healers to the aesthetics of Pampers to NPR's near fiscal crash) have appeared in the London Observer, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and The American Journalism Review among others. She also covered public broadcasting for Current.org, wrote and edited theater, film and music reviews for The Washington Weekly. In 1987, NPR's Scott Simon asked her to fill in as senior editor for his still-new program, “Weekend Edition Saturday.” Eventually they gave her the job, and a couple years later, she became senior editor of the daily news magazine, “All Things Considered.” She was awarded a Knight Fellowship at Stanford in 1991 and a year later she was in Russia, reporting on the bloody insurgency of the Russian Parliament and other stories for NPR. In 1995, NPR created its brand new media beat and gave it to Brooke, who covered it for six years from NPR's New York office in midtown Manhattan, until she was tapped by WNYC several subway stops downtown to help re-launch “On The Media.” The program was reborn in January of 2001. It has since tripled its audience and won quite a few awards by brazenly showing how the journalism sausage is made. Brooke has won several awards too, including an overseas press club award and a Peabody. Recently, the Milwaukee Press Club bestowed on her the Sacred Cat Award for lifetime achievement, but sadly, “On the Media”’s staff stubbornly refuses to perform any of the associated rituals.

LORI GRINKER began her photographic career while a student at Parsons School of Design. Since then, in addition to her reportage of events such as the destruction of the World Trade Center, she has delved into several long-term projects, and published two books: The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (Jewish Publication Society, 1989, 6 editions), and Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (de.MO, March 2005). She has documented the personal impact of war for over 20 years, most recently with her project, Iraq: Scars and Exile, which captures the physical and emotional wounds inflicted upon a cross section of individual Iraqis and families by the ongoing war in Iraq. Published in major magazines, her work has earned international recognition, garnering a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, the Ernst Hass Grant, The Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, among others. She is represented by MEO Represents, the Nailya Alexander Gallery, and has been a member of Contact Press Images since 1988.