Madeleine Bair
Founding Director
mbair@eltimpano.org
Madeleine Bair is an award-winning journalist and media developer, and the founder of El Tímpano. Madeleine has been carrying a microphone in her backpack since she belonged to the Oakland bureau of the youth media organization, Children’s Express. As Senior Program Manager at the international nonprofit, WITNESS, she led a pioneering initiative dedicated to advancing the use of citizen video as a tool for human rights. Madeleine has taught radio production to young adults, worked on a morning show at Chicago Public Radio, and produced multimedia for Human Rights Watch. Her stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Colorlines, and Orion, and broadcast on PRI’s The World and Independent Lens. She is an alumna of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford, the Media Transformation Challenge, and the CUNY Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership. She lives with her partner, son, and dog in Oakland, where she spends her free time making mixtapes, dancing cumbia, and exploring the region on bike.
By Madeleine Bair
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