Interact Staff & Project Affiliates InterAct functions as a strategic partner to media, NGO’s and community groups, working in affiliation with individuals and institutions to carry out its projects. Evelyn Messinger, president of Internews Interactive, is a television, Internet and cross-platform producer. Her current project is Digital Citizen 2012, a converged media election project for 2012. Ms. Messinger recently produced the Link TV meta-news series Global Pulse, and the online news literacy application Know the News. She was the Director of Electronic Media for the Soros Foundation, where she created the Foundation’s Electronic Media Program. Ms. Messinger was the creator and a producer of two-way satellite television programs linking Americans with Russians, which were broadcast as special episodes of Phil Donohue’s program, on PBS, and on ABC News where they were awarded two Emmys. She has also been a news producer and editor, whose credits include daily news and documentary programs for the BBC, France 2, PBS, CBS News, CNN and others. Her CV: http://evelynmessinger.wordpress.com Digital Citizen 2012 is a multiple platform engagement project that connects Americans using their personal communications devices to television programming during the 2012 election. Shia Levitt, Digital Citizen Consultant, is a New York-based radio journalist who produces international news and feature stories for NPR, Marketplace, WNYC and others. Her television production work is as a specialist in digital connectivity. Kadie Kelly, Digital Citizen Outreach Coordinator, is a public policy specialist and founder of the Oakland Single Parent’s Network.   InterAct’s Citizens Diplomacy Archive Project gathers source materials from Russia and the US concerning the activities of Citizen Diplomats during the Cold War period. The Hoover Institution at Stanford University has created a Citizen Diplomacy Collection, in cooperation with the CDA project. On April 21, 2010 a Citizen’s Diplomacy Seminar was held at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington DC (details here). Anya Kucharev, CDA Project Director, has worked in Russia and the former Soviet Republics for Esalen Institute’s Soviet-American Exchange Program, Internews Network, The Association for Humanistic Psychology, Armand Hammer Productions and many others. She has been nicknamed a “cross-cultural Sherpa” for her work as guide and interpreter during the Soviet-American citizen diplomacy projects in the 1980s.   Bridge Initiative International is a Europe-based NGO focused on globalization issues. InterAct is a co-founder of BII and serves as its US Representative office. Patrice Barrat is Executive Director of BII, which uses media and mediation to address the difficult issues of globalization. Mr. Barrat is a well-known French television producer/director and President of Article Z, the award-winning Paris-based multi-media production company.