Jennifer Vogel
(editor, co-producer) began her working life busing tables at a truck stop in South Dakota. For the last seven years she's been a writer and editor, covering subjects ranging from prisons and civil liberties to housing and employment, and has won many awards for investigative journalism, including an I.F. Stone
award from The Nation magazine. She's also the editor/author of a book called Crapped Out, which examines the social and economic effects of legalized gambling in America, published in 1997 by Common Courage Press. Until recently, Vogel was Managing Editor of New Media for Stern Publishing, which owns the Village Voice, the LA Weekly, the
Seattle Weekly, and a handful of other papers. She worked out of the Seattle office,
where she developed special projects, created and managed the Seattle Weekly web site, and wrote for the paper. She's currently a freelance writer and editor in Seattle. |
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Robin Marks
(co-producer) owns Bite Back Productions, an independent
radio and multimedia journalism company. She has been a journalist for
ten years, focusing on social, legal and scientific issues. Robin is a
frequent contributor to local and national public radio programs, and
has funded her freelance journalism and travel habits over the years
with a variety of McJobs -- as a hospital cafeteria worker, telephone
operator, retail clerk, and other, less rewarding occupations. Recently,
she's discovered the lucrative world of multimedia, and works with the
Seattle-based Mountain Zone to experiment with new ways of bringing
journalism to the Internet. She also teaches radio production classes
for Jack Straw Productions, a non-profit recording studio in Seattle.
She has a Bachelor's degree in biology and a Master's in International
Studies, speaks several foreign languages, and has worked in Russia,
Ukraine and Australia. |
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Adam Chapman
(art direction & design) is owner of ADM's Design Machine, a web and print design group. After graduating, with honors, from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands, he moved to Seattle and started his own design practice. He has art directed and/or designed web & print projects for MSN, Fox Sports, Pop! Multimedia, K2 Sports, The Zone Network, Mountain Zone.com, and The Resonance Project magazine, among others. He is a mentor for the NEA/Benton Foundation Open Studio Project; a project bringing artists to the Internet. Adam began his professional career wearing a matching orange & yellow visor and aloha shirt at an Orange Julius near his home in Hawaii. Among other things, he has been a counselor for "Youth at Risk", landscaper, dishwasher, chef, waiter, Kinko's "co-worker", and worked in music stores, theatres and art galleries. |
