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Media Hubris Dodges Real Look at Sexual Violence
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Opinion piece written in February 2011 for iHollaback.org in response to American media's treatment and portrayal of the sexual assault committed against reporter Lara Logan in Cairo, Egypt during "Arab Spring" uprisings.
Business and Human Rights 2007:
The Right to Internet
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An article written after attending Inter Press Service's 2006 International Achievement Award ceremony for Kofi Annan at the U.N. A look at the U.N. and Mr. Annan's efforts to make globalization and the internet benefit all people of the world. Originally published in Direct Marketing Association's January 2007 e-newsletter, Currents & Crossroads.
Apples In Stereo
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One-page interview with bassist Eric Allen of indie pop rock band Apples in Stereo. Originally published in Beyond Race magazine, Summer 2007 issue.
La Contraria Via: Love as Death in Cavalcanti and the Rime Petrose
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A critical analysis of the love-as-death trope shared by several of Cavalcanti's famous rime and Dante's uncharacteristically dark "stony poems." Written for Teodolinda Barolini's graduate course, "The Lyric Poem: From Scuola Siciliana to Dante," at Columbia University, December 2007.
Interpretation: Interview with Roberto Benigni
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An original interpretation of broadcast journalist Diego Senior's interview with Roberto Benigni on his one-man improv adaptation of the Divine Comedy, TuttoDante. Written for Columbian news radio network Caracol Radio and translated for Spanish radio.

 

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