Ramzy Baroud – Founder and Executive Director - is an author and a journalist, former Al-Jazeera producer, and founder of several progressive online media projects. Baroud’s work has been published in hundreds of newspapers and journals around the world, including The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, The Miami Herald, The Japan Times and Al-Ahram Weekly. He has been a guest on numerous television programs including CNN International, BBC, ABC Australia, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera and many others. He has contributed to many anthologies and his 2002 book, Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion received widespread international recognition. His second book, The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle was published in 2006 by Pluto Press, also to worldwide critical acclaim. Ramzy Baroud is a very experienced media practioner, who has taught Mass Communication at Curtin University of Technology, and has been a guest speaker at top universities around the world, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Rutgers, Penn State and Manchester University, among many others.

Pablo Ouziel – Business Manager - has international experience in Business Development and Corporate Communications having worked from London and New York, developing communications strategies and dealing with investor relations for companies such as Daimler-Chrysler, MCI Worldcom, Texas Instruments, Barclays Bank, Banco Santander, Terra Networks, Askit Systems, Golin Harris y Stanton Crenshaw. He was also co-founder of Latinia Corporation and Appareo Corporation, and is currently CEO of Can Poeti SL, a branding communications company which focuses on supporting projects across the globe in the areas of sustainability, ecology and health. Ouziel also sits on the Board of Directors of Mas Claperol, the oldest organic dairy farm in Catalunya, Spain, and his work has appeared on ZNet, the Palestine Chronicle and the Atlantic Free Press, among many other progressive publications.

Karen Yen – Art and Design Manager- is an accomplished Graphic Designer and Art Director, with experience that spans the globe from San Francisco to New York and currently Barcelona. From her professional debut in New York, working with design firm, Slover and Company, and later moving on to companies such as Martha Stewart Merchandising and Conde Nast Publications, Karen Yen has finally found her place in design in Can Poeti, SL, a branding and communications company that was created with her husband, Pablo Ouziel, which supports global projects with humanitarian, ecological and/or sustainable initiative. Karen’s creativity can be found in the packaging of Bath and Body Works products, the identity program of Amayal (a humanitarian clinic in Mexico), the websites of Natura and Diego Fortunato, and in the identity system of Mas Claperol Organic Dairy Farm, among others.

Sejal Chad – Content Development Manager - has spent time studying, living and working across the Middle East, India, the US, and is currently based in London, UK. For three years she worked at leading progressive publishers Pluto Press in both sales and editorial capacities. She also had work experience with Zee News Channel, Verso Books and Seven Stories Press, and has been involved in new media projects that have been show-cased at major art festivals, including Transmediale, Berlin. Most recently she worked at and completed a counseling course at the Refugee Therapy Centre in London. Currently she is working towards a Masters’ degree in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London.