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Kelly Whalen
Affiliation during program: Freelance video, Oakland, CA
Country Focus: Russia

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Kelly Whalen is a California-based freelance documentary producer. Her television and radio documentaries have aired on the Public Broadcasting System, MSNBC, TechTV, and American Public Media. Her most recent television producing credits include the PBS documentaries �The Fire Next Time,� and �Not In Our Town: When Hate Happens Here,� both of which document community responses to hate, intolerance and the threat of violence, and are scheduled for broadcast in 2005. Whalen was also a producer of the national PBS documentary series �Livelyhood,� about work and globalization, and a field producer for �Life�s Labors,� a Marketplace Productions radio documentary series about the changing economy. She was a co-producer of a �MSNBC Investigates� documentary about girls in the juvenile justice system. Also a magazine and feature writer, Whalen has published work in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and online for the PBS international series �FRONTLINE/World.� She received a master�s degree in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley�s Graduate School of Journalism.

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