About World Vision Report

Beverley Abel spent a decade producing documentaries for British television before moving to the United States in 1990. Shortly thereafter, she became a host at WUNC, the public radio station out of Chapel Hill, NC, and a producer when it launched its daily talk show, “The State of Things” with hosts Melinda Penkava and Frank Stasio.

She also produced a five-part radio series on medical ethics called “Do No Harm,” which aired on major public radio stations around the U.S.

Beverley has won several awards for her work, including a Gracie Allen award, Community Broadcasters Silver Reel and an Edward R. Murrow award.

Mark Bandy has 25 years experience in both music and audio production. As a lover of sound and the technology of sound, Mark has worked in a number of mediums -- from live broadcast to award-winning documentary film work.

His work has been part of numerous national advertising campaigns for clients such as McDonald’s, United Airlines and Sears, and also on the Super Bowl for Anheuser-Busch. Mark’s recordings have also been heard on Marketplace and Living on Earth.

Mark works in Chicago and is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

Doug Boyles served as a Broadcast Journalist in the United States Army, winning several awards including the Department of Defense's "Broadcast Journalist of the Year" award. His background includes audio editing and mixing, analog and digital video editing, and video and audio field recording. Prior to working at World Vision, Doug worked at KCTS television in Seattle.

Christina Darden brings more than a decade of experience in broadcast journalism to World Vision Report. She has worked as a reporter and producer for the BBC and U.S. network news affiliates. In recent years, she has specialized in producing news documentaries on topics ranging from poverty and homelessness to AIDS and domestic abuse. Her work has garnered several Emmys and Christian broadcasting awards.

Doug Fox spent the past 29 years as the chief political reporter for WFAA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth. During his 40 years working in radio and television, he won numerous awards including the Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on the problems of the disadvantaged, and the Edward R. Murrow Award for writing.

He has covered political conventions, hurricanes, the Oklahoma City bombing, and much more. Doug is a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin.

Cynthia Graber came to the World Vision Report from NPR's "Living on Earth," where she worked as a producer and reporter for five years. She's won a number of awards for her international radio reporting, including the AAAS Pinnacle of Excellence award for science journalism and the Society of Environmental Journalists award.

In addition to radio journalism, she works as a freelance print reporter and has written for numerous magazines and newspapers. She holds a master's degree in science journalism from Boston University, and spent two years in Israel working for environmental organizations.

Leda Hartman has worked as a public radio and print journalist for 25 years. She has been a regular contributor to nationally broadcast public radio programs including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Latino USA, Studio 360 and The World, as well as Voice of America.

Leda produced a traditional music series for NPR called "Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues," and created an audio documentary on the Appalachian mountain economy for the World Bank Institute and the National Endowment for the Arts. She also received a fellowship in rural reporting from the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism.

Leda is the recipient of many national awards: a shared Peabody, a shared Dupont-Columbia, two shared Gracies, a shared Casey and a shared Harry Chapin; individual Clarion and New York Festival Awards; and first-place documentary awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the North Carolina Radio and Television News Directors Association and the North Carolina Associated Press. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, journalist Paul Cuadros.

Prior to her responsibilities as General Manager of the World Vision Report, Shelly Ngo served as director of World Vision's publications and information division where she had overall management duties for book publishing, internet content, magazines and publications, the digital assets library, and the liaison center for international communications. Her management experience also includes oversight of World Vision's in-house creative department, market research division and metro markets. In 2005, Shelly spent seven months working with a team of consultants and staff worldwide to streamline and improve efficiencies for World Vision's global partnership offices.

Shelly's international knowledge has been built through extensive travels through countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Shelly holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science from Pepperdine University.

Susan has served as a writer, reporter, marketing director, development director, senior web producer and web host for the public radio program "Living on Earth," beginning in 1995. Prior to 1995 she worked as a freelance science columnist for the Boston Globe; assistant editor of the Journal of Comparative Neurology; and project manager for the Harvard Family Research Project. A resident of Boston, she is a graduate of Curry College and did postgraduate study at Harvard in the History of Science.

Before joining the World Vision Report, Diane Toomey spent four years as science editor at Living On Earth, NPR's environmental news show. She also reported and hosted for the program. She has worked as a producer on a documentary series on alternative medicine for the Discovery Health Channel.

For five years, Diane reported on science, the environment, and medicine at WUNC, the public radio station out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her reports have won numerous awards, including the American Institute of Biological Sciences’ Media Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, the Public Radio News Directors Award for Enterprise Reporting, and the American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Allen Award for Best Radio Documentary. She began her journalism career as a producer and substitute host for public radio's Marketplace Morning Report.