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.
He
has produced, shot, and written documentaries in Mexico, Colombia, and
Peru, as well as the former Yugoslavia.
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.
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 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.
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