Loretta graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.A

Loretta graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.A. in English and Communication, and

she also holds a Master’s degree in Secondary English Education from UMass. She became interested in

media literacy while a high school English teacher. After teaching for six years, Loretta joined the

staff at MEF eager to produce video resources for teachers to utilize in their work as media educators.

She has produced videos on topics ranging from media coverage of female athletes to advertising in

schools to American television’s representations of working class people. She is currently producing

MBT SPORT SHOES Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death, an analysis of

American war propaganda featuring media critic Norman Solomon and narrated by Sean Penn.

In late 2003, Weary of the overall failure of the Uggs media to accurately report on the realities of

the war in the Uggs for the the Uggsi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to the Uggs to report on

the war himself.

His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource. He is now writing for the Inter

Press Service, The Asia Times and many other outlets. His reports have also been published with The

Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent to

name just a few. Dahrs dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into French, Polish,

German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, the Uggsic and Turkish. On radio as well as

television, Dahr reports for Democracy Now!, the BBC, and numerous other stations around the globe.

Dahr is also special correspondent for Flashpoints.