Emily Meehan is a writer, media producer, and public relations consultant based in New York. She has worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Kenya, New York, Alaska and California — covering war, humanitarian emergencies, children’s issues, politics, oil, and culture for radio, print and online media outlets, and acting as a spokesperson for humanitarian agencies. She wrote the popular ‘Act One’ column for the Wall Street Journal, and contributes to Slate.com. Emily has collaborated with artists, journalists, performers and institutions such as Al Jazeera, Hal Robbins, Antoine Calvino, Abdiaziz Hassan, Cultural Video Foundation, Radio Okapi, KQED, Frédéric Courbet and Keith Bedford. She started at KCRW FM in Los Angeles, assisting DJs and performing on Joe Frank’s Peabody Award-winning radio show, “The Other Side.” Emily speaks to students and volunteers in social work and education projects for vulnerable youth. She studied philosophy at the University College London and graduated with a degree in fine art from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003. Email her at emilymeehan [at] gmail [dot] com. Download CV. (Stalkers risk being kidnapped for ransom.)
Selected Public Relations Projects
AGBU: Ararat Magazine | UNICEF: Humanitarian Action Report 2010 | IRC: 60 Minutes “Congo Gold” | UNICEF: Al Jazeera “Atrocities Haunt DRC Child Soldiers” | UNICEF: CNN “Dr. Denis Mukwege, the angel of Bukavu” | UNICEF: Arte TV “Enfants Soldats en Perdition” | IRC: Voices from the Field | DFID: Tuungane Newsletter | IRC: AlertNet “Eastern Congo: Out of site and out of reach”
Selected Journalism Clips
The Humanitarian’s Dilemma | Would You Like To Be President of Somalia? | Notes From a Failed State | The Ghetto Film Club | Drought in Somaliland | Life, Death and Twitter on the African Savannah | Young Kenyan Politician Killed in Post-Election Violence | Philanthropy’s Role in Disaster Relief | Navigating Due Diligence in China | From the Geodisic Dome to the iPod | Interview: “Control” Director Anton Corbijn | California Dreams Meet Reality | New Grads Are Impatient for Promotions | We Smoke But We’re Not Smokers | Interview: Generation Y Work Ethic | Never Mind the Bullets | Logging in Hours in a Bid to Get Ahead | Do a Few Too Many Cost a Bit Too Much?
Blogs
BROOKLYN CARES
Documenting Brooklyn’s social utopia with overheard conversations, essays, sightings, and an eclectic soundtrack. “A person must care. If he doesn’t, he is not his…self. He is not part of the earth. If a person is one of those people who only thinks about his own business, he is not caring about anyone but his own self, he is not caring about his country.” — Nabir, taxi driver
AFRICAN HEROES
On badasses who make something out nothing, their acolytes, and occasionally, villains. Interviews, essays, pictures, music and radio segments. “We had blood on our hands, we fought against a dictator, and we killed each other. So everybody is paranoid that somebody is following him. And we think that if we give up the arms, that other tribes will attack us. Let us disarm ourselves and give the arms to the government.” — Dr. Omar Dihoud
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