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Adelaide Chen is a second generation Chinese American, the first among her family born in the U.S. She has contributed articles to AsianWeek focusing on immigration and the Asian American community. She has also produced radio stories during the Beijing Olympics for Free Speech Radio News and KPFA radio.
Tyler Sipe studies new media and radio at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Before relocating to the Bay Area, Tyler worked for three years as a photojournalist at the Traverse City Record-Eagle in northern Michigan. He was the recipient of numerous awards from the Associated Press and Michigan Press Photographer’s Association. In his free time, Tyler enjoys traveling, cooking with lots of garlic and occasionally playing tennis or volleyball.
Linsay Rousseau Burnett is studying investigative journalism, photography and radio at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She served four years with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division as a journalist, photographer and videographer, with a one-year tour in Iraq. She won awards for her photography, television production and graphic design. With a strong background in the arts, she enjoys singing, playing the piano and acting.
Will Jason got his start in journalism covering Little League baseball when he was 12. Raised in Los Angeles, Jason lived in Boston for almost seven years before finding his way back to California. Before joining 510Report, he was a reporter for the North Bay Business Journal in Santa Rosa.
Karen Weise studies reporting at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She comes from a business background as a management consultant and marketing director. She wrote a book, published by Princeton Architectural Press, and has interned at Southern California Public Radio, MOMA, and Save the Children in Azerbaijan. She loves telling stories about her hysterical grandparents and hitchhiking across Central Asia.
Shipeng Guo is a first-year student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He worked as a researcher for the Reuters news agency in Beijing until August 2008, when he covered the Olympics.
Amanda Dyer is a freelance journalist and student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Before moving to the Bay Area, she worked as an education reporter at the Lodi News-Sentinel in Lodi, Calif. Her work has also appeared in the Sacramento News & Review. She lives in Oakland with her two cats, Rey and Jasper.
Mateen Kaul recently came to the Bay Area from Lahore, Pakistan, to pursue a master’s degree in journalism at UC Berkeley. Before that, he spent six years in the newsrooms of a daily newspaper and a monthly news magazine in Pakistan.
My name is Zachary Solomon Miller. An article was written about me last year by Amanda Dyer. Aside from being misled myself, which is what any “good” journalist is taught to do, the article is rife with innaccurate and entirely false information. In this sense it is libelous. I’ve attempted to make a comment on the article, which I’ve pasted below. At present this comment has not been approved. I’d be shocked if she, or you, wouldn’t permit me to respond to this article as I have below. If this is not possible, permit me to write my own article in response. If this is not possible, do nothing and I will seek legal recourse.
Zachary SOLO-man motherfuckin Miller
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so… I am Solo.
First of all, Amanda totally misled me from the beginning. At the time of the interview I was very engaged in the treesit and the park and was under the impression she would be using the interview to give voice to a unique perspective of these issues. I won’t go into everything here, at this time, suffice it to say that after our ninety minute interview she only used a couple of sound bites and those which served the purposes of her story and from her own perspective. After reading the interview I was ashamed and heartbroken, because I had the sense Amanda was someone I could trust, which was why I was so open with her, publicly, about my past. In retrospect, I’m glad this is now all part of the public record, but i’d like to set that record straight.
At present: I’m enrolled full time at the University of California at Berkeley and am on track to graduate on December 15th; probably with a 4.0 from this semester (knock, knock, knock). I’ve been sober for the past year or so, minus one relapse about halfway through. I’m running my own business repairing and selling bicycles. I’m vegetarian and do yoga a few times a week. I’m involved in the UC protest/strike/free education – group/movement (we don’t have a set name just yet). i’m in touch with my family and actually writing from my mom’s where we all just had a beautiful thanksgiving. so, life is good. i have much to be grateful for. that is not to say, however, that i regret or discredit my past experience. that was all a necessary learning experience and taught me more about knowledge and life than i ever learned in the textbooks. the way i see it, it was my “year abroad” — or my para-bachelor’s degree. about four years of time i spent learning about the theories and concepts that the academic environment had introduced me to — directly. participant observation, so to speak. i was interested in education, so i taught in inner-city schools for four years. social welfare- group home counselor for 16 mos. peace and conflict studies – lived in israel/palestine, jerusalem, ramallah, bethlehem, nazareth, etc. sociology – went to jail seven or eight times (n/i mexico and NY), lived outside 14 mos, developed a drug addiction (and beat it). so, now i believe i have credibility to talk about these social issues and ways to combat them effectively.
anyway, i asked amanda several times for the transcript of the interview we conducted prior to this article. she tells me she’s lost it. that’s a damn shame (even more so because i believe her). I am currently working on my thesis which is titled, Living Outdoors: A Radical Re-framing of the HMS Debate in Berkeley, California. This will present the argument, in an academic format, that I originally intended to get across in the interview with Amanda. I felt she had an opportunity then to write something different. Something groundbreaking and powerful, rather than typical, ‘here’s some kid who had everything and fucked it off.’
amanda. there’s so much i want to say to you. i have so much anger and resentment for what you’ve done here. i know you feel guilty too, because you know how dishonest you were from the beginning. i’m going to resist the urge to criticize you though and tell you instead that it’s nothing. forget it. but remember this, you had an opportunity to write something great. you still might.
love,
z.solo
p.s. for more info you can find me on facebook by searching zak solomon
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