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Scott is executive producer of “Between The Lines” radio newsmagazine and host of the two-hour live talk show Counterpoint heard Monday evenings 8 to 10 p.m. on WPKN Radio 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as well as board president and co-founder of Squeaky Wheel Productions. He is the founder, past president and a board member of the Norwalk, CT-Nagarote, Nicaragua Sister City Project, 1986-present. Scott currently manages a Connecticut-based halfway house program facilitating the reintegration of residents returning from prison back into the community.

Melinda has been a staff reporter or independent journalist for the past 30 years, and has won numerous regional and international awards for her work. She focuses on reporting on the environment, women’s issues and criminal justice reforms.  Based in New Haven, CT, she hasreported from South Africa, Israel/the West Bank, Haiti, New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf Coast, and West Virginia, the site of massive mountaintop removal coal operations.

She has contributed a weekly segment to Between the Lines since 2000. She also had her own show, The Forest & the Trees: Global and Local Perspectives on the Environment, on WPKN radio for 15 years, and has reported for several Connecticut radio stations and several national radio programs, including Free Speech Radio News, WINGS and Making Contact, as well as magazines such as In These Times and The Progressive, and online outlets including Indian Country Media Network. Her past work has appeared in the New Haven Independent, The New York Times and many local and regional publications. She is also Squeaky Wheel Productions’ board secretary.

Bob Nixon is a longtime news editor, digging out “under-reported news” for Between the Lines since its founding in 1991 and board member of Squeaky Wheel Productions. Bob worked for over a decade in for various newspapers in southern Connecticut and suburban Westchester, New York. For 20 years, Bob has been active in numerous interfaith and community projects. Bob believes in the power of progressive philanthropy to grow social movements and a supporter of the North Star Fund in NYC and immigrants rights work like member-led Brandworkers.

Anna has been active on human rights and socioeconomic issues and was a freelance journalist for national, regional and local publications, as well as event organizing, beginning in 1986. She has worked in software development and support at Purdue and Indiana universities, as well as technical writer / multimedia project manager for corporate clients, and made a career change to journalism, spending 16 years as copy editor at a city daily newspaper. Since volunteering with Between The Lines in 1996, she has been passionate about using her writing and software development work experience to disseminate under-reported news and views. She has been instrumental in nationally syndicating Between The Lines since 1999, shortly after the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle, and as board vice president, is one of the co-founding board members of Squeaky Wheel Productions.

Susan is retired from a 46-year career in software development and enjoys putting her experience and knowledge to good use for great non-profits like Squeaky Wheel Productions’ Between The Lines radio newsmagazine. Susan has been a board member for the New Haven / Leon Sister City Project for three decades serving as president, treasurer and fundraising chair. She and her husband, Shelly Altman, are currently leaders in the New Haven chapter of Jewish Voice For Peace working for a just future for Palestinians and fighting Islamophobia and racism in our local communities.

Jeff has volunteered with Between The Lines since 2000 and has been instrumental in marketing Between The Lines on the Internet to radio stations and the public via social media and other audio aggregator sites. He believes it’s important for progressive voices to have a platform in today’s new media.

Denise has been a radio broadcaster since 1982. She co-founded and was co-producer of the award-winning syndicated radio newsmagazine Between the Lines, which continues to cover news and ideas often overlooked by the corporate media and is broadcast in the U.S. and abroad on more than 50 radio stations. She is also treasurer of Squeaky Wheel Productions. She has reported extensively on the issues in Latin America and interviewed labor leader and co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, Cesar Chavez as well as many individuals at the grassroots level on environmental, indigenous and world struggles.

She covered the 50th anniversary of the UN in New York where Fidel Castro visited the United States for the first time since 1961, then visited Cuba and contributed to the Cuba in Focus program at WBAI in New York City, as well as news segments on Pacifica Radio News.

Denise interviewed Xanana Gusmao, East Timorese independence leader who would later become president of East Timor. Her passion is to seek truth and justice in a world that all too often doesn’t seem to provide either.

Richard is a public affairs producer for WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut and host of The Organic Farm Stand, Mic Check, Resistance Round Table and First Tuesday Rainy Day Radio and a board member of Squeaky Wheel Productions. He teaches a media literacy program to middle and high school students in Connecticut that has produced and broadcast over 70 youth radio shows. Richard is also a musician, a composer and the director of Mikata, a 10-piece Salsa and Latin jazz band. Richard is also the composer of Between The Lines’ theme music, both old and new.

Elaine is a narrator of Between The Lines and has many years of nonprofit management experience. She is a board member of Squeaky Wheel Productions.

Leslie is a narrator of Between The Lines and has many years of nonprofit management experience. She is a board member of Squeaky Wheel Productions.

Catherine is a writer and publicist for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University and board member of Squeaky Wheel Productions. She has an extensive history working as a grant writer and fundraiser for non-profit organizations including The Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, The Edgerton Center for the Arts at Sacred Heart University and the Connecticut Audubon Society. She has worked on numerous corporate and federal grants including submissions to the National Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the Arts. A longtime activist, Cat has served on boards of the Norwalk-Nagarote Sister City Project and Ethiopia’s Daughters. She also has extensive experience working for film, television and radio networks including Thirteen/WNET and WBAI radio.

Marco Roldán is a freelance producer, director of photography, editor, fine artist and founder of Proud Eye Media and board member of Squeaky Wheel Productions. Marco specializes in the production of educational children’s television programs, documentary and independent feature films. Proud Eye Media’s most recent work includes the environmental documentary “Farewell Fish” (Chao Pescao) about the projected building of three coal power plants near protected marine sanctuaries in northern Chile. Marco also produced the award-winning feature film “Dead Dog”, (Perro Muerto), during 2010, winner of Best Chilean movie at the Valdivia Film Festival in 2010, and Best Opera Prima at the Trieste Film Festival in Italy in 2011, nominated for Best Latinamerican film at the Toulousse Film festival and Chicago Latin film Festival in 2012.This film was just awarded film of Excellence at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards.