About the Founder
Cristi Hegranes is the president and founder of The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World. She is an award-winning journalist and a renowned international journalism trainer.

Hegranes, the recent recipient of the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism, has taken her education and experiences and crafted a series of truly unique and inspiring media curricula that allow journalists everywhere to live up to their potential, create ethical journalism, and allow readers to live freer, fuller lives by providing greater access to information. Cristi is the winner of a Clarion Award for Investigative Journalism, a Lifestyle Journalism Prize and numerous other honors.

Cristi is also the Executive Director and founder of The International Media Ethics Training Institute, imeti.org, an organization that provides media literacy and ethics trainings in schools and newsrooms throughout the world. She holds a Masters Degree from New York University, served as a fellow-in residence at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg and received a B.A. from Loyola Marymount University in L.A., where she is often a lecturer in the English Department. Cristi resides in Oakland and Healdsburg, CA with her partner Patrick and English Bulldog, Petunia Louise.

Photo courtesy of Oakland Magazine.





2009-2010 Board of Directors



Bridget Huber
Bridget Huber was the Press Institute's first program director at its training site in Chiapas, Mexico. Raised on the coast of Maine and a graduate of Bates College and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Bridget covers issues including the environment, food, and labor and contributes frequently to a number of regional and international publications. She has also worked with migrant farm workers, refugees, and grass-roots community groups in the US, Brazil and Mexico. In her free time, Bridget gardens, forages for wild foods, and is an apprentice to a cheesemaker. This fall, she'll enter a masters' program in journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.



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