Biography

Joia Jefferson Nuri is the Director of Media Relations for IPS. She is responsible for informing broadcast, cable, print, and .com media about the work of Progressive Challenge, Cities for Peace, SEEN, the Pinochet Project, and IPS in general. Joia schedules media interviews and gives the media access to IPS Fellows and researchers.

Prior to joining IPS, Joia worked in Washington media for close to 30 years. She served as Senior Producer at C-SPAN, America's Black Forum, BET and WAMU. As an independent producer, Joia created the "grateful student" profiles seen in the United Negro College Fund's annual fundraising telethon. She also produced live specials for the Pacifica Radio Network. For more than a decade Joia was a network television technician for both NBC and CBS NEWS. Joia ended her technical career in 1985 as the Technical Director of CBS' FACE THE NATION. In 1991, Joia lived and worked in west Africa, reporting on the presidential elections in Ivory Coast and Nigeria.

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