Maria Armoudian
Maria Armoudian is the author of Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World, host and producer of the radio programs, the Scholars' Circle and the Insighters, which are heard on KPFK, WPRR, KMUD, and other radio stations, many which are part of the Pacifica Radio Foundation. She is also a university lecturer at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, a singer/songwriter/musician, and has previously served as a commissioner in the City of Los Angeles. Pacifica Foundation, a non-profit, educational organization is a 501(c)(3). As commissioner, she worked on environmental issuesfor the City of Los Angeles. For eight years, she also developed, wrote and managed legislation and led investigations as senior staff at the California State Legislature. Her journalism has been syndicated by the New York Times Syndicate and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and she has written for numerous other outlets, including the New Zealand Herald, the Los Angeles Daily News, the Progressive, Alternet.org, Grist.org, Salon.com, and Inc. Armoudian's second book, Reporting from the Danger Zone: Frontline Journalists, they Jobs and an Increasingly Perilous Future, is under contract with Routledge and set to be published in 2016. Her first CD is titled Life in the New World.