Karen Ranucci is an Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and videographer. She has worked in independent video and film production for the last 50 years, beginning at Downtown Community TV Center in New York. Karen worked as a freelance correspondent for the NBC Nightly News and Today Show, and in 198,5 she won a National Emmy for “Best Investigative Reporting” for a series she developed about workers being poisoned in the tungsten carbide industry. She founded the Latin American Video Archives to distribute Latin American-made films and videos to the US educational market. In the days following September 11, 2001, Karen joined the Democracy Now! team, where she worked for over a decade in various positions, transforming this beloved radio program into a simultaneous radio, TV, and internet broadcast seen by millions around the globe.