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Welcome to behind-the-scenes at REBEL MEDIA and of all the great people who help make it happen. Read on for information on the hosts, reporters, producers and the crew.

Hosts

Felix Leo Campos, Executive Director of AfterDark CATV Productions, Inc., was born and raised in New York's Spanish Harlem, El Barrio, and is a community/media activist and former teacher of the NYC Board of Education. A graduate of Herbert H. Lehman College, Campos has attended graduate school at Hunter College and CCNY (Anthropology and Bilingual Special Education); and completed courses in anthropology and media strategies at Columbia University as a 2002-2003 Charles Revson Fellow for Urban Activists.

Campos’ dedication to community development has taken shape from his involvement in numerous community-based programs throughout New York City. As a teacher in the NYC Public School system (Districts 6, 9 and 4), he taught elementary and intermediate grade students in the bilingual program, monolingual and bilingual special education programs, and is a former board member of The Lexington ChildCare Center in East Harlem. He has worked with numerous independent and alternative media organizations including the Alliance for Community Media, the Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers, Film, Video Arts (FVA), The Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc., among others. Campos has also produced and hosted programs for PBS, for radio (WHBI, WBAI, WHLC), for cable television and public access networks. His leadership and community organizing, media activism and literacy efforts created and establish Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN). New York City Assembly Speaker Peter Vallone recognized Campos’ leadership in 2001, as then President of Image/Imagen de Nueva York. He is also the recipient of Hispanic Magazine’s “Hispanic Entrepreneur of the Year 2001."

Ismael Nuñez is of Puerto Rican descent born and raised in Spanish Harlem (El Barrio) in New York City. He attended local schools and graduated from CUNY’s Hunter College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Media/Communications.

Currently, Nuñez works as a freelance writer. His main “beat” is the grass-root local happenings in New York’s inner city. He has written articles on the Puerto Rican Independence Movement in NYC, and Latino baseball players, among other themes. He is regularly featured in The Harlem Times, Latin Week NY, and Tiempo. He is also a frequent contributor to the blogs, Serious Consideration and PRSUN.BLOGSPOT.

Aside from writing, Nuñez is involvement in the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. As a member of the advocacy and action organization, Pro-Libertad, he is involved in organizing public events that enrich people’s knowledge of the subject Puerto Rican History and Independence. He is a patron of the arts and culture scene tying art together with advocacy. He has lectured on the subject and also gives walking tours of East Harlem’s Spanish Harlem, El Barrio, and cradle of the Puerto Rican community.

Robert Waddell Robert Waddell was born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican mother and an Alabamian father. He is a graduated from Hunter College with a Bachelors Degree then he earned a Masters from City College. Waddell then attended the Medill School of Journalism in Chicago. Waddell has written for publications as varied as the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Siempre, Tiempo and Urban Latino.

He is the official biographer of Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri. In 2004, he organized a photo exhibit "Latino Lens" with photographers Enid Alvarez and Marisol Diaz, which was held at Taller Boricua in the Bronx. The following year he received a prestigious fellowship from the Independent Press Association for reporting. He is currently on staff as a reporter at Latin Week New York and is a professor at Boricua College, Bronx campus.