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By: Shannon Mullen on Jun 26, 2010
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Nearly everywhere you look in India there's a glorious riot of color. I stumbled across these fiery red chilies sun-drying on the ground in the courtyard of a Hindu temple in Savoi Verem, a tiny rural village in the steamy south Indian state of Goa. more...
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Don Duncan is a freelance print and radio reporter and videographer based in Beirut, Lebanon, where he covered the country's recent election, it's 2007 political crisis, and the conflict at the Nahr al Bared Palestinian camp.
His reporting has also brought him to Afghanistan, where he covered the plight of the country's disabled and the advances in development in the north of the country; to Miami, to look into the shifting power-play of Florida's Latino vote, between Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics; and most recently to Nepal and Bhutan where, funded by The Nation Institute in New York, he investigated the beginnings of an insurgency facing Bhutan as it settles into its newly-created democracy.
Originally from Ireland, Don speaks fluent French and Irish. He holds the Bachelor's degree in literature from Trinity College Dublin and Master's degrees in politics and journalism from Columbia University in New York.
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is an independent radio producer. Her work has aired on Morning Edition, Weekend America, Marketplace, and Voice of America. She also worked for the United Nations Radio News Service in New York City. Anna is fluent in Japanese and Spanish -– with a smattering of French, Mandarin and Kinyarwanda.
Shannon Mullen is a freelance reporter and film producer based in New England. She is a native of New Hampshire, where she studied Pre-Veterinary Medicine in college and dabbled in professional culinary pursuits before finding her niche in journalism. She has two dogs, lives on a farm, loves traveling and being outdoors. 
Gretchen L. Wilson is based in Johannesburg, and reports throughout the continent on globalization, power and money. Her work has appeared on Marketplace, The World, Slate, the BBC, CBC, and in The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press. Gretchen is also the co-author of From Dust to Diamonds: Stories of South African Social Entrepreneurs (2007). Her Web site is www.gretchenlwilson.com.
Heba Aly is a Khartoum-based freelance journalist. She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in both radio and television, as well as many of Canada's largest daily newspapers. She has also worked for the United Nations' humanitarian news service (IRIN) in Senegal, West Africa and Chad, central Africa.
As a freelancer in Sudan, Heba has contributed news and features to various outlets, including the Globe and Mail, Christian Science Monitor, Public Radio International and IRIN. She speaks fluent Englsh and French, and also speaks Arabic and Spanish.