John Mikytuck is an Emmy award-winning journalist, writer, and producer and the creator and host of several web tv series.   Mikytuck has produced, written and directed for the History Channel and A&E Television, and has written for the New York Press, Cornell Chronicle, Manhattan Times, and the Editorial Board of the Key West Citizen. Mikytuck received an Emmy award for Advanced Media- Public Affairs from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,  Health Reporting Award from the New York Press Association, and a Paul Rykoff Coleman Foundation Award.  He received a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.

Christine Kiernan has associate produced documentaries for National Geographic, the History Channel, Discovery Channel and PBS.  She began her career in the mid-1990s working in Moscow as a newscaster on local radio and as a researcher for the Los Angeles Times. Christine has also organized training seminars for journalists in Tajikistan for Internews, an NGO that works to strengthen local independent media. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Jason Kichline is an Emmy award-winning editor.  Kichline’s over fifteen years in the film/video industry began as a youth, helping his father shoot wedding videos in rural Pennsylvania.  Kichline began working in New Media  in 2003 and received the first Emmy award for Advanced  Media- Pubic  Affairs as a producer on Reporting AIDS, a web-television show.   Jason received his B.A. in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School in Manhattan.

Heather Freudenthal, a native New Yorker, studied film and video productions as an undergraduate at Manhattanville College. From there she earned a Master’s Degree in Media Studies from The New School in downtown Manhattan.