correspondents

Tomás Dinges
Dinges just completed a fellowship at The Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, where he traveled to Chile to investigate the health and environmental affects of over-use of antibiotics in the production of farmed Atlantic salmon. Previously, Dinges lived in Santiago, Chile where he worked as a fixer and freelance reporter for PBS, the London Review of Books and the Miami Herald. In that role, he developed a knowledge of Chile and was an avid blogger of Chile from Within. Before his freelancer work, Dinges was a cultural and business reporter at the award-winning weekly political magazine and newspaper Siete Más 7. There, Dinges covered the downfall of Augusto Pinochet and his illegally held bank accounts in the United States. Dinges conducted an investigation into a half-billion dollar loan fraud. He also reported on cultural and consumer changes. Prior to Chile, he worked at the Hispanic Link Weekly Report. Dinges is active in the development of a 30,000-acre private national park, and has participated in the exploration of southern Patagonia in conjunction with the Rolex Enterprise Awards. Dinges earned a bachelor of arts in international relations from Tufts University, where he was member of the EPIIC colloquium, and a master of science in journalism from Columbia University.

Casey Hynes
Casey Hynes is a journalist based in Washington, D.C., where she is currently a Collegiate Network fellow at Roll Call newspaper. She graduated in May 2008 with a master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she reported throughout New York City and was a staff member for The Bronx Beat, a weekly newspaper published by a workshop class at the school. Her master’s project, “Little Girls Lost: Growing Up in a World of Media and Celebrity” focuses on pre-teen girls from suburban central New Jersey, and how a cultural addiction to Hollywood stars and gossip is affecting their values. She graduated in May 2007 from Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md., as an English and communication studies double major, and is originally from Brick, N.J.

Kristin Jones
Born in Hong Kong to a social work professor and former Jesuit priest from Dublin, and a librarian from Miami. One older brother, Sean. At seven, got a sticker from my mother every day I didn’t get in a fight. Learned Cantonese as a small kid, forgot it when I moved to Denver at age eight. Was the long jump record holder of my high school. At Reed College, wrote my thesis on Indian history and Salman Rushdie. Taught my future boyfriend Nick how to snowboard. Went to Cuba twice. After graduating, taught English to aspiring bureaucrats in Beijing. Was food and sports editor, then head editor of local expat rag. Freelanced on serious issues at Hong Kong English-language daily. Lost my China visa, landed in Hawaii. Freelanced for Honolulu Weekly and sold my body to medicine as a research subject for an immunosuppressive drug for organ transplant recipients. Went to law school in Denver for three days, dropped out. Moved to D.C. to be intern at The Nation. Interviewed Russell Simmons by cell phone in a liquor cabinet. Waitressed at a Turkish restaurant. Wrote a cover story on angry young voters. Met Chuck D. Got hired as Asia researcher for the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York. Appeared on CNN and BBC as an expert. Wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. Held a press conference in Beijing to launch a report. Moved in with Nick. Became a Stabile.

Euna Lhee
Lhee is a Columbia University fellow abroad at Sciences Po in France. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She lived there for eighteen years until she went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she majored in history and minored in French literature. She also majored in violin performance at Peabody Conservatory, where she was concertmaster of the undergraduate orchestra. At Hopkins, she was a news reporter for the campus paper and editor-in-chief of the Hopkins Undergraduate Research Journal. She then went to Paris, France, to study musicology at the Sorbonne and to compete in international violin competitions. The year after, she worked for the ministry of education in South Korea as an English instructor, translator and developer of educational materials. It was during these two “Erasmus” years that she decided to pursue journalism in addition to medicine. Lhee was a Kaiser fellow at The Baltimore Sun.

Sarah N. Lynch
Sarah Lynch is a reporter at Dow Jones Newswire. Before that, she was an intern in the Stamford Bureau of The New York Times where she reported on politics, education and crime. She also wrote for the Columbia News Service, a service syndicated by The New York Times Co. Her work has appeared in newspapers across the country, including the Houston Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune and The Arizona Republic. She has won the Winnick Prize, the National Press Club’s Dennis Feldman Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Journalism and the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Anne O’Hare McCormick Journalism Scholarship. Lynch grew up in Mine Hill, N.J. and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College with a dual degree in Spanish and English. She received high honors for her thesis examining female sexual repression in 20th century Colombian novels and she also received the Doris Fleischman award for her second thesis. She earned at master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Chris Ramirez
What started on a dare nearly two decades ago has morphed into a journalism career that has sent Chris Ramirez to war zones, the halls of government at every level and into he teeth of divisive political races. Raised in Inglewood, Calif., Ramirez began his career in 1992 working as a reporter in the U.S. Virgin Islands. While there, he covered Operation Uphold Democracy, the U.S.-led effort in 1994 to re-install Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He has worked for the Bakersfield Californian, the Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal and the Arizona Republic, where covered the 2006 gubernatorial election. Ramirez now works as an editor for the Amarillo Globe-News in West Texas. He recently investigated how rural law enforcement agencies have evolved since a string of racially biased arrests in Tulia, Texas led to the dismantling of the state’s drug task forces. He studied mass communications at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and speaks French.