Rona Kobell is the co-founder and founding editor of the Environmental Justice Journalism Initiative. Rona spent nine years at The Baltimore Sun and then eight at the Chesapeake Bay Journal. She was editor of Chesapeake Quarterly, a magazine Maryland Sea Grant produces, as well as a producer for several films about environmental justice. She will graduate in May with a Master’s of Arts from University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, where she created and teaches an environmental justice course. She is also teaching an honors course at UMBC focusing on sounds of environmental justice. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and was a Knight-Wallace fellow at the university.

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Margaret Murphy is a three time National Emmy Award winning producer/director/writer/editor whose work covers the areas of news, documentary, sports and children's programming as well as dramatic features. She began her career at Sesame Street producing and editing dozens of short films for the series and went on to co-create the pilot for "Animals, Animals, Animals", ABC's Emmy and Peabody Award winning childrens' series. She received a Video of the Year Grammy Award nomination for "Fun and Games" an interactive DVD for children featuring Bill Murray, Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globetrotters and prominent Broadway performers. She also created the first sports special for Nickelodeon, "Circles and Spins" based on a figure skating competition. At CBS News, she served as a chief editor for "60 Minutes" and "The Mike Wallace Profiles". She won her first National Emmy as an editor with the ABC Sports' Olympic Unit and won another National Emmy as a Producer for ABC's Nightline. For the PBS series, Smithsonian World, she won a National Emmy for her profile of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, an honor shared with noted historian David McCullough. She was later hired by legendary Creative Director, Bill Backer as a producer/editor at McCann-Erickson Worldwide to work on the Coca-Cola account for two years. She developed two stories that became CBS Movies, Christmas Comes to Willow Creek and, for Belzberg/Murphy Productions, "Unforgiveable" focusing on domestic abuse of women. She was also a producer for Lifetime specials with Christie Brinkley, Willow Bay and Elizabeth Vargas. She served as a member of the original...