Renee Feltz is a multi-media investigative reporter based in New York City where she is a freelancer with The New York Times investigative unit and an instructor at People’s Production House. As the former news director for KPFT-FM in Houston, Texas she interviewed more than 25 men and women on Texas Death Row, and coordinated national coverage for the Pacifica radio network during Hurricane Katrina. She is a 2008 graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, where she was a fellow with the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, with a focus on video and new media. Renee and her colleague, Stokely Baksh, produced an award-winning multimedia investigative masters project, www.BusinessofDetention.com, an ongoing report on how the government has turned to the private sector to detain immigrants. She has also reported for the BBC, NPR, CBC, FSRN, Air America, Making Contact, Indymedia, The Indypendent, Columbia Journalism Review, The Texas Observer, NACLA: Report on the Americas, Mother Jones and The New York Times.