Julienne Gage

CUBA

CUBA TRADE MAGAZINE

As managing editor of Cuba Trade Magazine in Miami during the brief period of détente between the United States and Cuba, Gage wrote, edited, and commissioned content related to international finance, trends in the public and private sectors, health, demographics, travel, arts and culture, and the impact of the U.S. embargo.

PEACE & CONFLICT

MOMBASA RISING, PBS NEWSHOUR, 2012.
Multimedia report on a secessionist movement in East Kenya.

VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

During field research and production projects, Gage documents her subjects in writing and video, as well as in still photography.

CAPACITY BUILDING

WATER EVERLASTING? THE BATTLE TO SECURE HAITI’S MOST ESSENTIAL RESOURCE

INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, 2014

Gage served as the senior producer and writer on this documentary about the challenges of turning around Haiti’s public water service.

IMMIGRATION & AGING

LA GATA: THE NINE LIVES OF A TANGO SINGER CALLED THE CAT

An independent documentary that won Gage the 2008 Best USA Documentary Film, Women’s International Film Festival of Miami.

FOOD SECURITY & THE ENVIRONMENT

Gage spent two months in 2011 traveling with experts from Catholic Relief Services throughout the most remote corners of Central America to write, shoot, produce and edit multimedia materials on sustainable agriculture, micro business, and water resource management. The program was sponsored by the Howard G. Buffet Foundation.

CULTURAL PRESERVATION

The Kalinago of Dominica, BBC, 2008.

Gage traveled to the Caribbean island of Dominica to produce a news feature about the challenges of cultural preservation after a Kalinago native chief proposed legislation to enforce marriage only within the community.

GLOBAL HEALTH & SOCIAL INCLUSION

KENYA: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND POPULATION

In 2012, Gage led a delegation of international journalists to Kenya to investigate reproductive health and population issues. The program was sponsored by the International Reporting Project and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Julienne Gage is a Washington, DC-based journalist, cultural anthropologist, and project manager. She has researched, written, commissioned, edited, and produced news, documentaries, and multimedia educational materials for media organizations such as BBC, NBC, Discovery, Al Jazeera, Univision, Telemundo, HDNet World Report, PRI The World, Cuba Trade Magazine, Devex, and the International Reporting Project. She has also managed research and communications projects for global development, diplomacy, and civil rights organizations such as Inter-American Development Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Catholic Relief Services, and World Learning. She currently works as a senior web content manager for the national Latino advocacy group UnidosUS, running their education blog ProgressReport.co. Gage has master’s degrees in anthropology from Western Washington University and in journalism from the Autonomous University of Madrid’s El País Escuela de Periodismo, as well as a bachelor’s degree in peace studies from Whitworth University. Her career has taken her across Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and the United States.