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Homelands' co-founder Cecilia Vaisman is a former NPR staff producer who has produced radio features and documentaries from Central and South America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the US. She has reported extensively on identity and women's issues, the environment, and development. A co-executive producer for the Homelands series World Views, Cecilia was also senior producer for Vanishing Homelands and Searching for Solutions, and project director of the Spanish and Portuguese language versions of Searching for Solutions.
Cecilia has received the Clarion Award and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters' Golden Reel Award, as well as two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for reporting on the disadvantaged. A series she co-produced on AIDS in Brazil won her an Armstrong Award. She produced the documentary series When the Rainforest Burns, and created Argentina's first radio documentary news program for Radio América in Buenos Aires.
Cecilia was born in Argentina and emigrated as a child to northern New Jersey. A graduate in Latin American Studies at Barnard College, she, her husband, and two children recently returned to the US after five years in Havana. After a year as a Visiting Fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the Univerisity of Notre Dame,
she now teaches Latin American Cinema at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is working on a documentary she shot in Cuba.
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Selected Works
Radio
 The
Fire Within: Finding
Islam in Prison
Picture
Me Rolling: Portrait
of Shomari Kress
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