Czerina Patel is the Executive Director of Yenza (www.yenza.org) – an organization which helps the global community better know the African people and which seeks to reveal the brightness, talent and beauty of Africa. She is the Senior Producer Emeritus of WNYC’s Radio Rookies – a program working with NYC youth to record stories about their own lives (Czerina ran this program until 2006.) She is a Peabody Award-winning radio producer, a photographer and a political activist. This is her personal blog.