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 journalist, global communications specialist, and cultural anthropologist. 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 and directed research and communications projects for global development, diplomacy, and civil society organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Catholic Relief Services, World Learning, UnidosUS, and Open Society Foundations, as well as the East Africa-based U.S. impact investment firm Renew Capital.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.

Recent Projects

Podcast: Exploring the Magic of Storytelling with Ethiopian Audio Content Company Teraki

Renew Capital, February 2023

Exploring Rwanda, a Frontier Market for Creative, Cross-Cutting Industries

Renew Capital, December 2022

On World Food Day, Renew Capital Reflects on Famine Mitigation in East Africa

Renew Capital, October 2022

Multimedia Report: UnidosUS’s Afro-Latinx Líderes Avanzando Fellows Tackle Policy

UnidosUS, ProgressReport.co, May 2022

Havana City Guides

American Way Magazine, 2020

God’s Waiting Room: Lessons in Late Life Urbanism from South Beach

MONU Magazine, Amsterdam, May 2019

La Cultura Cura: In the Face of Extreme Social and Political Unrest, Youth Can Find Safety and Healing in Their Roots

UnidosUS ProgressReport.co, December 2018

How rising sea levels are gentrifying Miami

Sojourners Magazine, August 2018 

Haiti has a burgeoning entrepreneur scene, but can it make room for Haitians forced to return from the US?

PRI The World, July, 24 2018

An iconic image challenged the politics of Cuban Americans

PRI The World, July, 6, 2018  

A Basque terrorist group has disarmed, which some hope will lead to new opportunities in the US

PRI The World, May 15, 2018

From Relief to Recovery: In the wake of Hurricane Irma, help for Cuba is complicated but vital

Cuba Trade, Sept. 15, 2017

Can private daycares help Cuba counter its aging population?

Cuba Trade, Oct. 20, 2017

The US government is targeting MS-13, but a former gang member says arrests alone won’t solve the problem

PRI, Nov. 16, 2017

Regla and Casablanca: Charms on the other side of Havana Harbor

Cuba Trade, Nov. 29, 2017

Fidel Castro Obituary: What Cuba’s History Means to Us

Sojourners Magazine, 2016