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Deepa Fernandes

Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow

Deepa Fernandes began working in radio as a daily news reporter in Sydney, Australia. From there she lived in Latin America and worked as the producer and sound engineer on a 26-part documentary series with indigenous communities in Ecuador. She eventually landed in Cuba where she worked as a daily features producer for Radio Havana Cuba. Fernandes has also been the producer of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! in New York.

Fernandes has won two independent journalism awards: one for her 60-minute documentary on the lives of six Cuban women and the other for a half-hour feature on the practice of arranged marriages in the Indian community in Australia. Fernandes has also won multiple awards for news reporting and radio documentary productions from The National Federation of Community Broadcasters.

She is the founder and co-director of People's Production House, a media justice training and production institute for youth and immigrant workers. Fernandes also won a 2003 OSI Community Fellowship, enabling her to create of Radio Rootz: Youth Media Collaborative, which teaches radio reporting skills in schools and community groups in New York City. She is the author of Targeted: National Security and the Big Business of Immigration (Seven Stories Press, 2007), which, according to Tom Hayden, “carefully documents specific immigration policy abuses and courageously denounces the institutions and policies that make them happen.” Her writings have appeared in The Village Voice, The Nation, In These Times and Alternet, among others.

Selected Articles and Appearances:

Toxic Trailers Redux: When Did FEMA Know?
Article | Mother Jones | March 25, 2008

Guest Workers in a Strange Land
Article | TheNation.com | October 26, 2007

Ordering the Tides to Stop
Op-Ed | TomPaine.com | June 11, 2007

This Alien Life: Privatized Prison for Immigrants
Article | CorpWatch | February 5, 2007

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Appearance | Democracy Now! | January 25, 2007

Deepa Fernandes at the National Conference for Media Reform
Appearance | National Conference for Media Reform | January 2007

Returning to Life
Interview | Alternet | July 18, 2005

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From the Edgar Award-winning novelist and author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian comes a new mystery novel about a private investigator and a case that tests his courage, character and soul. The victim is an atheist professor, the main suspect—who has confessed and is in custody—a Muslim foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew and the detective a born-again Christian. The New York Times says of Beinhart, "The man can really write."

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Clive Stafford Smith on PBS Documentary

October 16 - November 20 | PBS Affiliates
Watch Nation Books author Clive Stafford Smith in a new PBS documentary, Torturing Democracy. Stafford Smith is the author of Eight o' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side and founder of the legal charity, Reprieve, whose clients include prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

November 23 | 10 am
Amy Alexander at Watergate Conference
(Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.)
Listen to Institute Fellow Amy Alexander talk with fellow panelists about how bloggers are changing politics. This event is part of the National Association of Black Journalists' Watergate Conference on Political and Congressional Reporting: Did Politics Change the Media or Did Media Change Politics? MORE

December 7 | 4 pm
Gary Younge Pays Tribute to Studs Terkel
(Great Hall, Cooper Union, NYC)
Institute Fellow Gary Younge will be one of the luminaries paying tribute to the life of legendary oral historian and activist Studs Terkel, who died on October 31 at the age of 96. The event will be open to the public and free of charge. MORE

December 8
The Nation Institute Annual Dinner Gala
(Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC)
The Nation Institute's Annual Gala Dinner is Monday, December 8 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. Special guests include Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood; comedian Lewis Black; and Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation. MORE

January 15 | 8:30 am
Deepa Fernandes Wins North Star News Prize
(4 Times Square, NYC)
Institute Fellow Deepa Fernandes is one of three winners of the North Star News Prize, which recognizes people of color who have made outstanding contributions to journalism, media and communications, and public understanding of the struggle for social justice. MORE


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