Alumni

George Syrimis grew up on the island of Cyprus. After completing his military service, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Cornell University where he completed his B.Sc. in Education in 1990. He subsequently pursued graduate work at Harvard University where he studied Modern Greek, Classical Greek and Modern Spanish literature. His dissertation on the poetics of C.P. Cavafy’s love poems was entitled “”Try to Guard Them, Poet”: Homoeroticism and the Poetics of Opacity in C. P.

Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist, and author specializing in conflict reporting. She is the founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab which promotes constructive discussion around complex social issues. After the full-scale Russian invasion, Gumenyuk co-founded “The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies” which documents war crimes committed during the war. The Reckoning Project’s documentaries and articles have been published by TIME, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.

Haley Willis is a video journalist with the Visual Investigations team at the New York Times, which combines traditional reporting with digital and open source methods to break news and hold the powerful to account. Some of her recent work focused on police killings during traffic stops, civilian casualty assessments from the U.S. air war in the Middle East, and Russian atrocities in Ukraine. These and other investigations have shared in a number of awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes, three George Polk Awards, and a News Emmy.