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Rachele Kanigel (she/her) (Program Director) is a professor and former chair of the Journalism Department at San Francisco State University. She was a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years as well as a freelance correspondent for TIME Magazine. She has written for U.S. News & World Report, Health, Reader’s Digest, San Francisco Magazine and other magazines and websites. She is the author of The Student Newspaper Survival Guide and The Diversity Style Guide. In 2019 she spent 10 weeks as a Fulbright Specialist teaching and training faculty at Royal Thimphu College in the Himalayan nation of Bhutan. She has directed ieiMedia programs in Urbino, Perpignan and Jerusalem.

Bruce Strong (he/him) (Photojournalism/ Multimedia Professor) is the Alexia endowed chair and an associate professor of visual communications at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. He has shot in nearly 70 countries, with Iceland, Croatia, Oman, Mauritius, Mongolia, Armenia and South Sudan added to the mix most recently. Bruce was on staff at The Orange County Register in Southern California for 11 years and has freelanced for a variety of international publications and nonprofit organizations. His work has been published in such prestigious publications as TIME Magazine and National Geographic, and he has earned numerous awards and two fellowships: The Knight-Wallace Kellogg Public Policy Fellow at the University of Michigan and the Knight Fellowship at Ohio University. He also served as the first professional in residence at MediaStorm (then in New York City), and upon returning to Newhouse became chair of the Visual Communications department, a role he held for 10 years. He taught in ieiMedia’s Valencia program for two years.

Laird Harrison (he/him) (Reporting/Writing Professor) has written for magazines (TIME, Audubon, Reader’s Digest, People, Health), newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press); and Web sites (Reuters, Salon, MSNBC, CNN.com). He has produced video for Web sites of Smithsonian Magazine and WebMD, and audio for KQED and WUNC public media stations. He has taught journalism at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley Extension. His award-winning novel, Fallen Lake, was published by Verdant Books in 2012. Laird was a student abroad in Bordeaux. After teaching with the ieiMedia program in Perpignan, Laird returned to France to share his enthusiasm with a new generation of students in Arles.

Arles à la carte

Information on the team at Arles à la carte can be found at arlesalacarte.com.