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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

(Sum­mer 2011) FREELANCE VIDEO PRODUCER & PHOTOGRAPHER
Soci­ety of Inte­gra­tive Urol­ogy, New York, NY
Cov­er­age of the Annual Prostate Health Sem­i­nar at the Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity Med­ical Cen­ter and pro­duc­tion of DVD package.

(2010–2011) SOCIAL ACTION CAMPAIGN MANAGER
“10x10 – Edu­cate Girls, Change The World,” The Doc­u­men­tary Group, New York, NY
In charge of engag­ing the pub­lic to sup­port “10x10” via social net­works, newslet­ters, and fundrais­ing events. Designed the blog, and pro­duced sev­eral sto­ries (videos, pro­files, Q&As, pho­tos…).
Sug­gested, launched and over­saw a 10-day online fundrais­ing cam­paign (“10.10.10”).
Trav­eled to Asia to meet with local activists to dis­cuss part­ner­ships, build a “last-mile” dis­tri­b­u­tion strat­egy for the film “10x10,” and bring back story ideas and media for the blog.

(April 2010) FREELANCE REPORTER & WRITER
The Brook­lyn Daily Eagle
5000-word inves­ti­ga­tion on pedophilia in the Ortho­dox Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties in Brook­lyn, the trial of con­victed sex offender Baruch Lebovits, and the mea­sures taken by the Kings County Dis­trict Attorney’s office to pre­vent child sex­ual abuse in close-knit reli­gious communities.

(Sum­mer 2009) FULL-TIME REPORTER, NEWSCASTER
French national pub­lic radio France Inter, Paris, France
Posi­tion awarded for plac­ing third in the radio’s annual national com­pe­ti­tion “Trem­plin.” Pro­duced busi­ness, art and human inter­est sto­ries. Occa­sion­ally anchored the hourly newscasts.

(2008–2009) PART-TIME NEWSCASTER
Highest-rated national French radio, RTL, Paris, France
Wrote and anchored live five-minute news­casts on-the-hour, between mid­night and 5 a.m.

(2008–2009) FREELANCE ONLINE FILM CRITIC AND EDITOR
Cinemapolis.info, Paris, France
Respon­si­ble for review­ing Mid­dle East­ern and Euro­pean cin­ema. Assigned and edited work for the team of 15 contributors.

(Sum­mer 2008) REPORTER
French regional daily La Voix du Nord, Nord-Pas de Calais, France
Reported and wrote one or two local news sto­ries a day includ­ing busi­ness, crime and local pol­i­tics sto­ries. Broke a story about local gov­ern­ment corruption.

(Sum­mer 2007) PUBLIC INFORMATION INTERN
UN Regional Infor­ma­tion Cen­ter (UNRIC), Brus­sels, Bel­gium
Wrote press releases and daily press clip­pings in Eng­lish and French, as well as the monthly newslet­ter dis­trib­uted inter­na­tion­ally by the France and Monaco depart­ment. Other duties included: help­ing orga­nize an inter­na­tional con­fer­ence with NGO rep­re­sen­ta­tives, and the build­ing of a web­site for the 60^th anniver­sary of the Uni­ver­sal Dec­la­ra­tion of Human Rights.

(2003–2006) EDITORIAL INTERN
Libéra­tion, Nou­vel Obser­va­teur and France Bleu Hérault Radio, France, nation­wide
Radio, Print and Mul­ti­me­dia edi­to­r­ial intern­ships. Cov­ered sub­jects related to busi­ness, crime, main­land moments, pol­i­tics and arts.

LANGUAGES

- Flu­ent in Eng­lish (TOEFL and British Coun­cil cer­tifi­cate), Span­ish (Insti­tuto Cer­vantes certificate) and French (mother tongue).
– Strong skills in Hebrew (2-year Uni­ver­sity degree).
– Con­ver­sa­tional Ger­man and Ara­bic.
Spent sev­eral months liv­ing in Jor­dan, Israel, France, Spain, the USA, Great Britain, Ger­many and Ireland.

DIGITAL MEDIA SKILLS

- Pro­fi­cient with Office Suite, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, Pho­to­shop, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Word­Press.
– Expe­ri­enced with online social net­works such as Face­book, Twit­ter, FlickR, YouTube, Vimeo, Crow­drise…
– Cre­ated and main­tained three blogs, as well as three com­mis­sioned port­fo­lios.

EDUCATION

(2009–2010) Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism, New York, N.Y.
M.S. Broad­cast con­cen­tra­tor. Course­work included: com­plete train­ing in dig­i­tal media, daily local report­ing, jour­nal­ism busi­ness, ethics, and law, an “Inter­na­tional News­room” sem­i­nar focused on the Jan­u­ary 2010 earth­quake in Haiti, and an elec­tive on “Man­ag­ing a broad­cast news­room“
Inves­ti­gated Child Sex­ual Abuse in the Ortho­dox Jew­ish com­mu­nity in Brook­lyn for my Mas­ters’ thesis.

(2007–2009) Cen­tre de For­ma­tion des Jour­nal­istes, Paris, France
Two-year grad­u­ate degree pro­gram with exten­sive train­ing in local and mul­ti­me­dia jour­nal­ism. Radio concentrator.

(2003–2006) “Licence” in His­tory and Phi­los­o­phy, La Sor­bonne, Paris, France
Equiv­a­lent of Amer­i­can B.A. — with honors.

(2003–2006) Hypokhâgne and Khâgne, Lycée Con­dorcet, Paris, France
Inten­sive prepara­tory class for l’Ecole Nor­male Supérieure, a French pres­ti­gious “grande école.”

VOLUNTEER WORK 

(2007–2008) The Red Cross, Paris, France
Taught French as a for­eign lan­guage to illit­er­ate immi­grants who would have been oth­er­wise deported under a newly passed law.

(Sum­mer 2006) Jeunesse et Recon­struc­tion, Amman, Jor­dan
Took part in an inter­na­tional work camp build­ing an orphan­age and play­ing edu­ca­tional games with the children.

(2004) Musique pour l’Entraide Human­i­taire, Paris, France
Orga­nized and gave harp recitals to raise funds for music schools in Sub-Saharan Africa.