Cecilia V. Vaisman

Cecilia V. Vaisman will join the Kellogg Institute as a Hewlett Visiting Fellow for the fall semester 2007, and will collaborate with her husband Gary Marx, a Chicago Tribune correspondent. Currently a freelance radio producer, Vaisman is cofounder of Homelands Productions, a nonprofit journalism cooperative.

She has reported extensively in Latin America on issues including the environment and economic development, and has lived in Cuba for the last five years. During her stay, Vaisman will join Marx in teaching a course on contemporary Cuba.

Vaisman’s many awards include two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, an Armstrong Award, the Harry Chapin World Hunger Award, a Clarion Award, and two National Federation of Community Broadcasters Awards.