Jon Duncanson

Jon Duncanson has over 20 years of award winning journalism and media experience. He began his career as a photographer with UPI and Time Magazine. He went on to become a well respected correspondent, and news anchor at NBC News, CBS2 in Chicago, WFLD(FOX) in Chicago. His work has appeared on CNN, ABC News, CBS News, among others. He has also anchored news programs on MSNBC.

Jon is most proud of his work in the field, winning an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. He received 3 Emmy Awards for his covering of the wars in Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia. In 1994, his efforts were documented in the French film "The Troubles We've Seen - A History of Journalism in Wartime," by academy award-winning director Marcel Ophuls. The film received the International Critics' Award at the Montreal World Film Festival.

Prior to his career in journalism, Jon was hired by the environmental organization Greenpeace International. As media director he was featured in Rolling Stone Magazine for his success in pushing the global organization toward adopting a more clearly focused corporate outlook in meeting their high profile environmental campaign objectives.

Jon was a returning lecturer on Journalism and Media Issues at Columbia College in Chicago, as well as at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. In March he was invited to the West Wing of the White House and discussed how the Obama Administration could use viral video and social media to expand it's message.

Sylvia Gomez

Sylvia Gomez has over 20 years of award winning journalism and media experience. She has worked as a correspondent for NBC News, has anchored news shows in Chicago at both CBS and Fox owned broadcast outlets and her work has appeared on CNN as well. She has also worked as a television news correspondent in Dallas and as a television associate producer in Washington, D.C.

Among numerous journalistic awards Sylvia won an Emmy Award for her work covering the lives of police officers struggling to stay afloat in high crime areas of Chicago; the alarming crisis facing Chicago’s young African-American children, who don’t expect to live to see college; and the exploitation of latino day laborers in “EL Norte”, the United States.

While in Chicago she won numerous community service awards, was feted by the Illinois Secretary of State and was on several boards representing the Latino-American community.

She has traveled the world from northern India to the Amazon, producing documentaries on the lives of people who live there.