Category: Speakers

Catalina Camia manages reporters who specialize in the Supreme Court, criminal justice and tax policy for CQ Roll Call, and has a deep background in coverage of politics, campaign finance and lobbying. She has extensive experience as an editor and reporter in Washington. Prior to joining CQ Roll Call, Camia was a national political correspondent for USA TODAY and anchor of its OnPolitics blog. At USA TODAY, Camia was co-director of 2008 presidential campaign coverage and was on the team that developed the successful Candidate Match Game interactive. She was also the Washington editor charged with coverage of the 2006 and 2010 midterm elections, and led reporters covering politics, Congress, lobbying and campaign finance, economics, the White House and NASA. Camia previously covered Congress for The Dallas Morning News and got her start in Washington as an environmental policy reporter for what was then known as Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, now known as Q. She is a former national president of the Asian American Journalists Association and UNITY: Journalists of Color. Camia is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

Zach Wineburg works on the Democratic Elections Team at Google. Zach is a veteran in mobilization and campaign management, with over a decade of experience on elections at every level – from municipal to Congressional, Senate, Gubernatorial, and Presidential. With stints at the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) and at Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA), Zach has also served as campaign manager for Congresswoman Gabby Giffords’ successful reelection in 2008, and as part of President Obama’s Senior Leadership Team in the battleground state of Iowa in 2012. As a member of Google’s Elections Team, Zach supports Democratic candidates, committees, and Super PACs in targeting their message to the right audiences by utilizing Google’s suite of tools and products. He holds his bachelor’s degree from Mary Washington College and a master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Tina Rosenberg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. She co-authors the “Fixes” column in the New York Times “Opinionator” section. She is a former editorial writer for the New York Times and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. She is the co-founder of Solutions Journalism Network, an independent, non-profit organization working to legitimize and spread the practice of solutions journalism: rigorous and compelling reporting about responses to social problems. Her books include Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America and The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism,which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. She has written for dozens of magazines, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic. She is the author, most recently, of “Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World.” Follow her @tirosenberg.

Karin Caifa is a Washington-based reporter/producer for CNN Newsource, the affiliate news service of CNN. Karin’s live reports and content are distributed to more than 900 local stations domestically, as well as CNN platforms on-air and online worldwide. Her live political reports are also heard on Westwood One radio stations across the U.S.

Since joining CNN in 2007, Karin has been on-scene to cover a variety of major news events, including extensive coverage of the 2008, 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, the inaugurations of President Obama and his final State of the Union address, the historic visit of Pope Francis to Cuba, and the Paris terror attacks of November 2015. Previously, she worked for the networks of NBC News in New York, and her introduction to campaign coverage came as a member of the original class of NBC/MSNBC campaign embeds in 2004.

Karin holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelor’s degree in clarinet performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Karin earned her master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and has been an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

She has been a fellow at the Loyola (Los Angeles) Law School Journalist Law School, the Ohio State University Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism, the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists, and the Strictly Financials program at the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University.

Twitter: @karincaifaCNN
Instagram: @karincnn

Jennie O’Hagan has been working in Los Angeles television since 1992 when she began as an intern on the then brand new KTLA Morning News. The “Morning News” was the first of it’s kind, local morning news / talk show to rival and soon beat national programs like Today, Good Morning, America, etc. As of February 2016, the KTLA Morning News is still the #1 morning program from 4-10am in Los Angeles. After becoming the KTLA Morning News’ first Entertainment Producer, Jennie then found a new challenge in Public Relations and worked as an agency Account Executive and dabbled in Radio Affiliate relations for the next several years. As TV was her first love, Jennie decided to become a full-time freelancer so she could do a little bit of everything. Her year now consists of several projects, including; Executive Producer of KTLA-TV’s LIVE Red Carpet shows for the Primetime Emmys, Grammys and Oscars and the commercial free broadcast of America’s New Year’s Celebration, the Rose Parade. Jennie is also the publicist for the OC FAIR Pacific Amphitheater Summer Concert Series and enjoys contract work both in publicity and video production for Disneyland. She fits in as much teaching and media training as she can and has recently began blogging for Disney’s babble.com publication. Jennie is excited about what media was, is and will become and loves being part of the conversation.

Phil is a digital producer at ESPN. He anchors the “Official Visit,” a daily recruiting show on ESPN.com, and produces much of the college football and basketball recruiting content for ESPN’s RecruitingNation. He also interviews many of the athletes, coaches and entertainers in Bristol for stories on ESPN.com. Prior to joining ESPN, Phil was an anchor/reporter at DigitalSports, covering high school sports in and around Washington, D.C. for six years. He majored in both accounting and marketing at George Mason, while earning a minor in economics. Phil graduated from nearby Lake Braddock Secondary School. He is thrilled to be at the Washington Journalism and Media Conference and can’t wait to meet the promising journalists here.

Jennifer Bendery has been a White House and congressional reporter for The Huffington Post since April 2011. She covered Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for GalleryWatch in Austin, TX. She also worked in book publishing for three years in San Francisco and was a health care policy re-porter for two years in Providence, R.I.

Mike Shear is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. He joined The New York Times in 2010 as a political correspondent, then moved to cover the White House in 2013, and is currently covering the 2016 Election. In addition to numerous front page stories, he has appeared on television, providing insight and analysis to breaking political stories. Previously, Mr. Shear wrote for the Washington Post as a metro reporter covering Virginia politics, the 2008 presidential election and the White House correspondent. He was a member of the team of reporters who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. Mr. Shear received a B.A. degree from Claremont McKenna College and a M.A. degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University.