Our Team

Peter Dunn, Executive Director

Peter Dunn has worked as a reporter for the Chronicle Publishing Company and the Washington Bureau of the Dallas Times Herald. He has also worked as a coach, consultant and trainer for several organizations, including with the Vice President of Sales, the Director of International Sales and other executives at Google. He has been a business owner, managing two retail stores in Massachusetts, a publications specialist for the Inter-American Foundation in Washington, D.C., a cook, a dishwasher and a housepainter.

In addition, he has volunteered for numerous nonprofit organizations, including After School Kids, Earthworks, the Harvard Square Business Association’s Board of Directors, the Massachusetts Volunteer Network, the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and the Washington-area Little League. 

He received his B.A. in International Law, Organization and Relations from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he also received a Latin American Studies Certificate and an Honors Certificate in International Business Diplomacy.  He is a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute, and is a Certified Professional and Personal Coach (CPPC).

His interests include swimming, dancing, Christianity, Buddhist meditation, Sufism and listening to music.

Vince Winkel, Senior Editor

Vince Winkel was the Managing Editor of Public Interactive (Public Radio International's subsidiary that provides web platforms and content for 110 public radio and TV stations around the country), for its first five years of existence, from 1999 to 2004. Prior to that, he was operating editor of the Christian Science Monitor’s award-winning website, csmonitor.org.

Winkel later worked at Marketplace as web editor and producer for one year. He currently is media editor and managing editor of BMW Motorcycle Owners of America's magazine and website.

He has also worked for NPR, CNN, CBS and BBC as a reporter. His coverage of AIDS, political issues, education, children, science, music and the environment have earned him major awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists, the International Radio Festival of New York, the Gabriel Awards and more.

In his spare time, Winkel rides motorcycles and bikes, enjoys hiking, wood-working, playing ice hockey and spending time with his family.

Tom Regan, Senior Advisor

Tom Regan has the distinction of founding the first online news website in Canada, which was only the sixth in North America, in 1994 while working at the Halifax Daily News. He also had primary responsibility in 1995 for creating the Christian Science Monitor’s website, csmonitor.com, one of the top news organizations in America. Regan was also responsible for its day-to-day operations, serving as Supervising Editor from 1996-1998. The site has won two Eppy awards for Best Online Newspaper service and a Digital Edge award for Best Online News Service (both in the site’s circulation category).

Regan recently served as the Executive Director of the Online News Association. Besides working for DailySource.org, he writes columns on terrorism and security, and technology for the Monitor and he edits the front page of the Boston Globe’s website, boston.com, once per week.

Regan received a Nieman fellowship from Harvard, and won second place for online column writing from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for his blog “My American Life.” He also helped to create and design the website of the Portland (Maine) Press-Herald.

Regan’s non-journalistic pastimes include following the Boston Red Sox, screenwriting, film making and spending time with his family.

Yvonne S. Lee, Senior Editor

Yvonne S. Lee has worked as an editor and producer for the Cable News Network (CNN). There she interviewed high-ranking officials such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Senators John Kerry and Hilary Rodham Clinton. Lee brought CNN to a historic interview high mark by securing and conducting interviews with U.S. Supreme Court Justices Kennedy, Ginsberg and Breyer. She also actively managed coverage of hostile zones in Iraq.

While at CNN, Lee and her team won an Emmy for their coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon. She received the John Davidoff Journalism Fellowship and received the CDC Knight Public Health Journalism Fellowship. 

Lee’s experience includes writing and editing for the Cambodia Daily, based in Phnom Penh, where she wrote a series of investigative stories on Cambodian sex crimes.

Lee enjoys filming documentaries, playing piano, singing, creative writing and traveling.

Jim Scripps, Senior Editor

Jim Scripps recently worked as Managing Editor of the Tahoe Daily Tribune in California. He oversaw content for the daily paper and two magazines, and wrote all of the paper’s editorials and a weekly column. 

Scripps has won numerous awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and from the Nevada Press Association for business coverage, public service, editorial and column writing, and for general excellence.

He served as an editor for the Sierra Sun, where he directed editorial content and managed staff.  He reported business activities, covered crime and courts for the Nevada Appeal.   

Scripps enjoys sailing, biking and snow sports. Located in Reno, he is a licensed, active racer of the American Sailing Association, a board member of the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition and a member of Rotary International. 

Rich Garcia, Senior Editor

As an AOL CityGuide Managing Editor, Rich Garcia supervised website news and features content for CityGuide’s top 40 markets. Previously, Garcia worked for the Associated Press for 13 years as World News Editor, overseeing AP Broadcast News wire coverage of national and international news.

He won multiple Associated Press Broadcasters writing awards, including Best National News Summary and Best Feature Writing.  His experience includes working as an online editor and newswriter for Reuters, a senior content editor for LifeMinders, Inc. and as a news reporter and anchor for two Miami radio stations.

Based in the Washington D.C. area, Garcia enjoys coaching his sons' sports teams when he's not glued to a football or baseball game on TV, or trying yet again to grow a perfect lawn.

Nancy Weil, Senior Contributing Editor

Nancy Weil is a journalist who has spent the last decade working for IDG News Service, the world’s leading IT newswire, where she is currently Assistant News Editor. She edits the weekly staff column WorldBeat and contributes breaking news stories and analysis to the newswire. Prior to that, she spent seven years as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida covering education, courts, crime and other stories.

Weil also worked at The Southern Illinoisan for seven years, a regional daily newspaper, where she wrote features, covered higher education, prisons and veterans' issues. She spent a year at her hometown newspaper, the Granite City Press-Record, in Illinois.

Weil has won numerous journalism awards over the years, including one when she was part of a team at the St. Petersburg Times that won a Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for coverage of a racially motivated murder and its aftermath.

Besides her newspaper work, Weil is active in her church, where she co-leads the Sunday evening worship service. She is a life-long, avid St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan, and her remaining spare time enjoys gardening, reading, writing and spending time with her family and three cats.

Ryan K. Dowse, Layout Editor

After graduating from the University of New Hampshire, magna cum laude, Dowse was employed by a daily New Hampshire newspaper, The Telegraph, Inc, where he was
responsible for copy editing wire and staff stories, page design and proofing.

His work has been published in the UNH literary magazine, and he has reported for The New Hampshire. Additionally, he was inducted into four honor societies for outstanding academic performance: National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Sigma Alpha Lambda (2003); Golden Key (2004); and Phi Beta Kappa (2005).

When not creating layouts, Dowse enjoys novels by Stephen King and Anne Rice, writing, photography, candle-making, skiing and camping.

Josh Purinton, Chief Technical Director

Josh Purinton is a senior developer at Athena Health and is the technical lead for the eligibility-checking system of their flagship Web-based practice management software. As president of his own consulting company, he has served as the chief technical director for The Daily Source, helping to design the site architecture, hire developers for the project and advise on site problems. His consulting has also led him to writing a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol management application in Ruby on Rails for a broadband Internet service provider, in addition to other system development roles.

Previously Purinton worked for BBN Planet and Genuity where he wrote tools to manage Genuity's data centers and Internet connectivity services.

Christopher Rigor, Web Developer

Prior to joining DailySource.org, Rigor worked as a programmer at Smart Communications Inc. in the technical systems department writing programs for its telecommunications services. He holds both a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics. He was a member of the Ateneo programming team for two years.

While in college, Rigor competed in and received an Honorable Mention in the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery, International Collegiate Programming Contest’s World Finals in San Antonio.

As the primary Web developer for DailySource.org, Rigor ensures the best user experience possible for our readers and also creates the systems our editors use to produce the site daily.

He enjoys traveling, watching movies, surfing the Net, solving programming problems and playing basketball.

Laytee Dwanyen, Graphic Designer

A graduate of the University of Memphis with an Internet Journalism major, Dwanyen has designed and coded websites, created images for brochures and presentations utilized by profit and non-profit businesses. She has also assisted in writing and researching articles for the newsletter of the Winston African Conservation Council of Cape Town, South Africa where she was the assistant publications coordinator. While employed there, she also translated articles into various languages and worked on the layout and design of the newsletter.

Back in Memphis, Dwanyen served as an author’s personal assistant and tutored a learning disabled child. She was also a communications intern for a law firm based in New Orleans. The image she created for the NAACP was used in its "Get Healthy" campaign.

An avid sports fan, Dwanyen can be found cheering for the Titans, Memphis Grizzlies or Memphis Tigers. She also finds time for reading, freelance graphic design work and adding shows to her DVR.

Janet Falkenstein, Content Editor

Janet Falkenstein has held a variety of writing, editing and management positions spanning the public communications field. Her experience includes copywriting direct mail pieces, sales promotion and marketing materials, marketing work in educational communications, technical writing and assorted freelance writing assignments.

Falkenstein's interests include travel, reading, urban explorations and writing.

Joe Naroditsky, Contributing Editor

Joe Naroditsky is the director of Neighborhood Initiatives at SCOPE, a community development nonprofit organization in Sarasota, Florida. His active role in community development research while in college led to his present position at SCOPE. He also works on the Aging: The Possibilities initiative and has facilitated the Family Violence Implementation efforts.

With a strong passion for cultural diversity, Naroditsky is fluent in English and Spanish and is also proficient in Russian, Hebrew and Italian. He teaches Hebrew language and cultural studies at Martin and Mildred Paver Religious School.

In his spare time, Naroditsky enjoys playing basketball and Ultimate Frisbee.

Jesse Glickstein, Contributing Editor

Jesse Glickstein's career focus has been on youth - often those who are less fortunate.  He currently teaches 8th to 12th grade science at a New York City public high school for behaviorally and emotionally disabled students. 

He has served as youth supervisor for a YMCA youth shelter housing 12- to 18- year-old boys in need. Glickstein's experience includes supervising a camp, teaching and advising elementary and middle school students and substituting.

Glickstein wrote for the Miami High News, one of the oldest scholastics publications in the U.S. founded in 1923, which has a staff of 60.

In addition to his volunteer work at DailySource.org, he has volunteered at Big Brothers, the UAHC Feeding Program, and Morry’s Camp.

Walton Chiu, Contributing Story Editor

Walton Chiu's work has spanned the globe -- from Taiwan to New Zealand to the U.S. Chiu has worked as an editorial assistant for Elixigen, and as a research assistant for Boston University's Computational Cell Biology Project.

Chiu has also worked as an emergency medical technician and as a homecare counselor.

Chiu likes to listen to classical and electronic music, go sailing, watch films and read.  He is a fascinated observer of world happenings in politics, cinema, youth culture, music and other areas.

Zahra Jaferi, Proofreader

Zahra Jaferi's passion for reporting ignited with the publication of her first newspaper article 15 years ago. Since then she has been involved in many journalism-related activities.

Jaferi currently covers a crime beat for the USA Voice and interns for the Student Operated Press.

She helped launch Bibi Magazine, a national fashion magazine and served as an editor. She has also served at various newspapers including the Rider News, the Daily Cougar and Mercer County Woman doing news, features, editorials and layout.

Shannon Doyle, Proofreader and Special Projects

Prior to joining DailySource.org, Doyle worked as an intern for CharityGuide.org, where she completed articles and performed administrative tasks. She was a journalism major at Arizona State University. She has also been a library aide, a sample technician for Pinnacle Food Products and been employed at a real estate company.

She loves to write, read, be involved with anything music-related and hang out with friends.

Tanya Elise Hedrick, Marketing Intern

Tanya Hedrick has been actively involved in public relations for the last several years, most recently employed in the Liberty University Public Relations Office as a press writer. At Liberty she worked with the public relations team to develop strategies to promote the university and meet the administration’s goals. She has also written reports for internal and external media, documented events and honors, as well as developed University relationships with media.

Hedrick also participated in the Amtrak Big South Scholar, Amtrak Ambassador Program, where she served as liaison between Liberty University and Amtrak. She received the Robert F. Lucas Distinguished Lieutenant Governor Award from the Key Club of Central New York in 2003.

Active participation as a member and as an officer in the Public Relations Student Society of America led to media research targeting media outlet applicants and to close contact with media organizations.

In her spare time, Hedrick enjoys reading, creative writing and salsa dancing.