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ABOUT US
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Steve Anderson, Publisher
Publisher and
journalist Steve Anderson hails from Fayetteville,
Arkansas – where he once served as a VISTA volunteer, taught
school,
practiced law and involved himself in community affairs as a JP on
the
local Quorum Court.
While busy making other plans, force majuere (she's gone but not
forgotten) took him to Chile in 1987. He launched the Chile
Information Project (CHIP) in 1990 as a hobby and a spin-off from
a
project that began while working at the Catholic Church`s Vicaria
of Solidarity.
After stringing for various international mining and fruit export
publications, he now writes for the Chilean Exporters Association.
When he
can he spends time at his farm outside of Puerto Montt, but his
son Ray, age 7, and his work at CHIP occupy most of his time.
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Alejandra Diaz, Office Manager
Alejandra was born in Santiago and studied advertising at the University
of Santiago. She has worked for CHIP since 1994 and is responsible
for handling CHIP finances and keeping the offices in good running
order. |
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Victor Pino, Travel Staff
Victor worked in the tourism industry before joining the CHIP Travel
Guide and Hotel site in October 1997. He enjoys introducing people
to Chile’s variety of travel possibilities. |
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William "Will" Osmond, Travel Staff
Born in France near Paris, Will was raised in the USA when his
familly moved to follow the flourishing markets of the New World.
A trilingual administration student at Universidad de Chile, Will
began working for CHIP as a Tour Guide in 2001, favouring the City
Cultural Walk-tours and the –hick– Wine Tours. He was later
taken on to work in the Sales Department in 2003, but still delights
in herding curious tourists through the busy Santiago streets, unraveling
it’s wonders and splendor. Outside of work and study, Will teaches
both English and French; enjoys jogging, writing, singing and plays
the Piano. |
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Juan Torres, Travel Staff
Juan began working with
CHIP Travel in late 2001. He organizes all of the company's
day tours, and leads several of them, including the cultural trips
around Santiago and the trips to the port city of Valparaiso and
to Neruda's home on Isla Negra. When not busy at CHIP, Juan
enjoys playing ping pong or practicing his English, over a beer,
with local ex pats. |
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Rafe Hutchings, Travel Staff
Rafe hails from Somerset in the U.K. He suffers from LatinAmericaitis,
having had the good fortune to have lived in several of its countries.
He recently completed a Masters in Information Systems. He has an
excessive love of rugby, and enjoys the outdoors and current affairs.
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Raul Ojeda, Travel Staff
Raul has lived in small towns like Lago Verde up in the Andes,
in isolated islands like Maillen (two hour by boat from Puerto Montt)
and big cities like Santiago or Chicago.
He is a bilingual (English and Spanish) elementary school teacher
who enjoys travelling and meeting with people from all over the
world.
He worked in the United States for six years with different immigrants
aid organizations and at the same time he was involved in some volunteer
programs in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
He and his wife Vicky have been living in Puerto Montt since they
got back from the States.They have two kids Simón and Mariel.
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Víctor Henriquez, Santiago Times
Victor Henriquez recieved his B.A. in journalism from Andrés
Bello
University in 1988. He joined the CHIP staff in January 1999 and
focuses on mining and business issues. Victor loves to read and
enjoys soccer.
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Irene Caselli, Santiago Times (Lady in Charge)
Irene was born in Naples, Southern Italy, in 1981 and lived
in the chaos of the Mediterranean city for 18 years. She then
studied International Relations and German in St. Andrews, Scotland,
and Bonn, Germany. After graduating in June 2003, Irene decided
it was time to leave Europe, and, thanks to her brother, ended
up in Chile to find inspiration. The Santiago Times has helped
a bit so far, proving that journalism might be the right way.
What she hope for in future are new countries, other languages
and more words to write down. If she ever can shake loose from
The Santiago Times.
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Harriet Alexander-Orr, Santiago Times
Born
and raised in sunny Rutland, Harriet left England’s smallest
county to study politics at Leeds University, and is currently
on exchange at the Universidad Católica in Santiago. Her
wanderlust has seen her explore Europe by train, spend six months
working in a French ski resort, hitch-hike to Morocco and travel
by bus and boat from Venezuela to Patagonia.
Harriet
joined The Santiago Times in August 2003, following stints on
The Independent, Sunday Times Magazine and Leeds Student. Six
months on Ghana’s Evening News saw her hounding politicians,
causing chaos as parliament correspondent and grooving with
Ghanaian rappers. When not snowboarding, mountaineering or grappling
with Spanish verbs, Harriet spends her time planning how to
take over the BBC in Buenos Aires. |
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Cosmogirl,
Santiago Times
Cosmogirl, our resident Culture Review Editor and Sex Columnist,
was born in the indecorous city of Hartford, CT in 1981, and much
to her adolescent dismay, grew up in the scenic countryside of
North Guilford. At the sparkling age of 18 she left Hickville
and moved to New York City, where she studied English at Barnard
College, and mastered the arts of walking home in stilettos and
getting out of Brooklyn at 3 am. As a temporary Manhattanite,
she launched her journalism career with a saucy stint in the dubious
“Books” department at Cosmopolitan magazine, followed
by a less scandalous internship with the art editor at The New
Yorker. She’s also studied in Paris – ooh la la. She
landed in Chile, sin tacones, in September 2003. Luckily, she’s
has found a place to combine her penchant for the written word,
urban know-how, culture savviness and Dear Abby cheekiness at
The Santiago Times. |
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David Seitel, Sports Guy, Santiago Times
Sports guy hails from the planet of sport. His motto is
“Just Do It” and his favorite beverage, beside beer,
is Gatorade. Much to the lazy man’s astonishment, SG (as
his teammates like to say), enjoys various things like watching
sports, talking about sports, and writing about sports. It is
for the latter that SP has found a spot in the Santiago Times
staff. With much practice at sports, Sports Guy knows everything
from vulgar chants and mosh-pits, to the grace and elegance
of a soccer goal. Although you can only contain (not stop!)
him, Sports Guy has a weakness like his idol Jim Thorpe. This
ultra-talented individual of sport is allergic to reading and
classical music, unless there are hot chicks and complementary
chips.
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Fernando Martinez Bravo, Santiago Times
Fernando Martinez Bravo was born in the city of Puerto Montt
in the south of the world. There, surrounded by lakes,
volcanoes, and curanto he was inspired to begin experimenting
with photography. Eventually he moved north to study Publicity
and Photography in Valparaiso. (Unfortunately the first nude
model presented to him was not a goddess, but instead a wrinkly
old woman of extremely generous proportions). Recently he gave
in and moved to the congested capital he had been avoiding for
so long in order to complete his studies. At this moment, he
works at the Santiago Times as a photographer. |
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Saritha
Komatireddy, Santiago Times
Though born in Brooklyn, Saritha Komatireddy spent most of
her childhood in the true
heartland of America -- the small midwestern town of Columbia,
Missouri. She enjoys traveling, dancing, tinkering with
technology, learning new
languages, and doing random spontaneous things. Saritha is
currently playing it cool
in Boston, where she is a fourth-year undergraduate student
studying government at
Harvard University.
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Thomas Burgis,
Santiago Times
Tom grew up in
Manchester, UK, in the shadow of Old Trafford. He comes to
Santiago after four years living in boxes and studying
literature in London and three months braving the wilds of
Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. He has worked as a bookie, a manual
laborer, a barman, a letter writer for the British Government
and a model for medical demonstrations. He has been the arts
editor of a student magazine, a reporter for the Sunday
Telegraph and has published several poems. He is a guitar player
of dubious merit, a keen footballer, a voracious reader and an
explorer of Santiago’s seedy underbelly. |
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Ray Anderson
Ray, age 7, is the youngest member of the Santiago Times
staff. A bilingual wonder, he provides a certain youthful zest
to whatever assignment he takes on. In addition to extoling
the virtues of the children´s news hour "31 Minutes,"
(he knows all the songs by heart), he is a sports fanatic -
both an aspiring fisherman and an innate soccer player. |
CHIP ALUMNI
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Dan Wagner, Santiago Times
Dan Wagner
is from the flat plains
of Michigan, but left his home on a heroic quest to find consumable
non-perishable no-wheat products in the Latin American wilderness.
However, Dan was disappointed when he learned that not only
is Latin America not a wilderness, as his educational videos
in Michigan had so honestly dictated, but that, for the 3rd
consecutive continent in a row, there are no consumable non-perishable
no-wheat products- or so the conservative daily El Mercurio
reported last Sunday.
Dan now works at the Santiago Times, studies Economics at La
Universidad Catolica, and waits for the snow to fall.
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Christine Latz,
Santiago Times
After having escaped tear gas
attacks on the campus of the University of Santiago, Christine
decided to use the second half of her university exchange year
to write for the Santiago Times. Christine is a bilingual
student of journalism and English literature from Eichstätt, a
minute town in Bavaria, Germany. She has explored Chile from
Arica to Tierra del Fuego, spent hundreds of hours in buses
traveling around South America and loves hopping over the border
to enjoy a huge Argentinian steak. |
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Harriet Alexander-Orr, Santiago Times
Born
and raised in sunny Rutland, Harriet left England’s smallest
county to study politics at Leeds University, and is currently
on exchange at the Universidad Católica in Santiago. Her
wanderlust has seen her explore Europe by train, spend six months
working in a French ski resort, hitch-hike to Morocco and travel
by bus and boat from Venezuela to Patagonia.
Harriet
joined The Santiago Times in August 2003, following stints on
The Independent, Sunday Times Magazine and Leeds Student. Six
months on Ghana’s Evening News saw her hounding politicians,
causing chaos as parliament correspondent and grooving with
Ghanaian rappers. When not snowboarding, mountaineering or grappling
with Spanish verbs, Harriet spends her time planning how to
take over the BBC in Buenos Aires. |
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Benjamin Witte, Santiago Times
Benjamin was born in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1974 and has been
trying to find his way back ever since. Strangely enough, his
path has recently led to Santiago (for the second time), where
he and his puppy Castor are enjoying the good life and fast times
of being an editor and an editor's dog. Other recent stops along
the road have been "Chepe," Costa Rica, where Benjamin
put in a stint as a reporter for The Tico Times, Prague, Czech
Republic, where he spread the gospel of the English language,
and the People's Republic of Berkeley (California) where he did
most of his growing up.
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Emily Green, Santiago Times
Emily is a third year undergraduate student at The George Washington
University in Washington, D.C., where she studies journalism
and international relations. She arrived in Chile in the
fall of 2003 as an exchange student at the University of Chile.
She is currently taking a semester off from school and working
at El Encuentro,
a community radio station in Santiago, and The Santiago Times.
Emily is from Atlanta, Georgia.
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Chris Celio, Santiago Times
Chris was born
and raised in the outskirts of Washington, D.C. in northern Virginia
where he spent his formative years swimming and learning to juggle
and playing with yo-yos. Later on he went to the University of
Delaware to study International Relations and finally graduated
in May 2002. During his stay at Delaware, Chris spent most of
his breaks in other countries, including a semester in Senegal,
West Africa. Since graduation he’s been traveling and working,
returning recently from a year in China where he taught English
in the Southern town of Baise. The love for travel and a new interest
in writing has brought him to the Santiago Times, where he is
loving the pace of the city and the flexibility of life at the
Times. |
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Heather Murphy, Santiago Times
Heather Murphy, known as “Cultural Lady” by the
“Lady in Charge,” has lived in Chile for about two
years. She dedicates a large chunk of her time to the Santiago
Times Cultural Review, a good excuse to write about twisted
movies, investigate unusual facets of Chilean culture, and visit
places she probably shouldn’t. In order to support her
penchant for making short films about people such as the schizophrenic
man-woman who calls herself Anticristo Divino (one of Heather’s
favorite Chilean authors), she also teaches English. Ask her
when she is leaving Chile, and she will tell you "Maybe
tomorrow, maybe never."
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Florian Meier, Santiago Times
Florian began his Internship at the beginning of October he helped
structuring our new travel website, cooperated with the Santiago
Times team and worked in the marketing department. In Germany
he studies economic ingenirings at university of applied siences
in Mannheim. Besides that Florian enjoyed Chile´s multicultural
life. He likes traveling, outdoor activities and weekend trips
to Viña del Mar. We all hope he has no more buzzer-nightmares
and wish him the best for his future ;-) |
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Markus Biehal, Webdesign Chip Travel
Before Markus joined our team, he studied business administration
and after that specialized in computer sciences (webdesign, information
systems, communication systems, Macromedia Products, 3 D - Webdesign,
Animations, Network, Webmarketing, Applications on mobile devices)
and recently completed his Master in Media Economics. Markus was
a great asset during his stay at CHIP, helping remake our Splash
Page and completely reworking the CHIP Travel site. He is
greatly missed.
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Jolyon Attwooll, Santiago Times
Ex-Londoner Jolyon pitched up in Santiago without a place
to go in January 2003. Fortunately, he found some sort of meaningful
existence at the Santiago Times shortly afterwards. He goes running
quite a lot and he writes a fair bit too. Sometimes he writes
about running. Pet hates include musak and writing his own biography.
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Carmina Rodriguez, Santiago Times
Carmina joined the Santiago Times team in June 2003 soon after
finishing her journalism studies at the University of Chile. Besides
writing for the Santiago Times, she is in charge of the Cultural
Review section, which fits perfectly with her interests in art,
decoration, books and music. Other tasks include helping the 'gringos'
understand the sometimes confusing phrases appearing in the Chilean
press, being one of the few Chileans on the news team. Her previous
experiences include being a reporter for "El Mercurio"
and writing on an architecture & decoration magazine. In 2001,
she ventured to Holland, where she made an internship at the Internet
research company "Van Dusseldorp & Partners" and
tried to grasp the basics of the Dutch language. In her spare
time Carmina enjoys reading, playing the violoncello and being
with friends and family.
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Molly Culver and Emily Weiner, Chip Travel and cultural features
Santiago Times
Molly Culver and Emily Weiner hail from the Tri-State area,
having just finished their respective Bachelor degrees at Barnard
College. Now in Santiago, they are infusing the new travel page
with some fresh extranjera spice. They write for "The Times"
a bit, too. They especially enjoy watching majestic horses on
the beach, lunar eclipses, and taking long walks along
the Rio Mapocho. Favorite topics include literature, politics,
and digestion. |
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Eli Naduris-Weissman, Santiago Times
Eli Naduris-Weissman is a product of exile from Chile caused
by the 1973 military coup. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was soon
taken by his parents to California, where he has spent most of
his life. He studied at Stanford University, where he helped form
a student organization to support worker rights on campus, and
later graduated with degrees in Philosophy and Biology. In addition
to working for the Santiago Times, Eli came to Chile last December
in order to get to know his family and the country his father
was forced to leave. |
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Catherine Makereel, Santiago Times
Born and raised in the North of France, Catherine left froggy
land many years ago to study English literature in Cambridge,
England. Her taste for adventure and a desire to explore "this
country at the end of the world", brought her to Chile in
September 2002. As a full time journalist working for the Santiago
Times, she is still trying to convince her colleagues that French
people do shower everyday. |
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Leslie Josephs, Santiago
Times
Leslie was born and raised in a small farming village just
east of Teaneck, NJ, called New York City. With dreams of living
the “big city” life she kissed the cows goodbye and left for Chile,
joining the Santiago Times in the Fall of 2002. Leslie studied
print journalism and photography at Emerson College in
Boston and has worked in both print and broadcast media. She
is fluent in English and Nuyorican and is learning to speak Spanish
“como una Chilena.”
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Jennifer
Pribble, Editor
Jenny Pribble came to the Santiago Times from Washington D.C.,
where
she was working for the international NGO, Population Services
International, in its HIV/AIDS prevention programs. Jenny is
originally from Oxford, Ohio, where she attended Miami University
and
studied International Studies. She left the Santiago Times in
June
2002, to pursue post-graduate studies in Political Science at
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Seth Searles, Santiago Times
Seth - a musician at heart - worked at a New York city investment
banking firm before interning at The Santiago Times the last half
of 2001. His banking background proved to be a valuable asset to
our team.
He enjoyed Santiago`s limited but lively jazz scene while he was
here, but we suspect he had an ever better time in Argentina and
Brazil, his destination after sharing nearly eight months with us. |
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James Mannix, Santiago Times
James Mannix comes from Sussex, England. He is studying
for a joint honors in Modern Languages at Oxford University and
joined the Santiago Times as an intern in July 2002. He loves the
beautiful game and supports Tottenham F.C. |
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Kit Dawney, Santiago Times
Kit Dawnay worked in financial, news and celebrity journalism
before coming to Chile to edit the Santiago Times with
Gallic flair and help from the Oompa Loompas. |
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Teal Pennebaker, Intern
Teal Pennebaker, CHIP's most recent intern, is a junior at Wellesley
College in Massachusetts. An American Studies major with a concentration
in political science, she hopes to pursue either journalism or a
post-doctorate degree in political science after graduation. She
has been an editor at The Wellesley News for two years, a position
which helped breed her love of writing, editing (yep, editing),
and layout. As an intern for the Santiago Times, Teal will write,
help with production, and do odd jobs. In her spare time, Teal travels
and reads Nora Ephron books. She also gets a kick out of meeting
new people and wandering around foreign cities.
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Katja Kirsche, Intern
Katja Kirsche was born in East Germany before the political
changes took place. She is still making up for her lack of travel
experience she suffered from in her early adolesence.
Since the wall came down she embarked on different destinations,
such as Western Europe and Mexico where she lived for a while.
CHIP Travel is appreciating her lively way of being, the travel
experience she already has and the four foreign languages she can
handle.
Katja is studying media, culture and education in Leipzig, Germany.
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Sonia Roveri, Santiago Times
Sonia Roveri was born in Los Angeles, CA. but after several vacation
trips to Chile, her family - chilenos - decided to move to Santiago
in 1991. During her 8 year stay in Chile, Sonia received a degree
in Journalism from Universidad Gabriela Mistral, worked at CHIP
news, was a free lance writer for CARAS magazine and was Marketing
Manager for United International Pictures. Although it was an all-around
great experience, Sonia is a Californian at heart and happily returned
to LA in 1999. She is currently Senior Manager of Marketing and
Public Relations for Twentieth Century Fox s Latin American Channels.
During her free time she enjoys hanging out with family and friends,
reading, dancing and movies. From Chile she misses the smell of
fresh "hallullas", ingenious Chilean slang and Tongoy. |
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Eric P. Martin, Santiago Times
Eric began working for CHIP after graduating from U.C. Berkeley
and a short stint at CBS Radio. In addition to writing at the Santiago
Times, he contributed to the Welcome Wagon and edited the Visiting
Chile's Wineries web site. In college, he studied rhetoric while
working at the campus radio station. He produced an award winning
radio documentary and created the station's premiere comedy show,
Bobbing For Lobsters. He is from Penn Valley, just south of the
Middle of Nowhere, CA. |
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