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77 International is a not-for-profit organization that develops and produces multimedia programming to increase awareness and understanding of world affairs. Our feature-length documentaries and Web-based series are designed to connect with audiences on a human level through an approach that embraces popular culture. Our educational outreach programs bring the results of our global investigations to local audiences.

By communicating in the same informal ways that people around the world educate and entertain each other, 77 International engenders participation in the conversations that define our society amongst people who might think such things are over their heads. We're making the intelligentsia intelligible.

KEY STAFF

Jason Mojica
Jason has worked across a multitude of media platforms, from photocopied fanzines to international broadcast news. As freelance television producer and photojournalist, he has worked for Al Jazeera English, Current TV, Vice, VBS, Layalina Productions, Time Out, and Venus Zine among others. Jason developed a passion for exploring the intersection of politics and media during his school years when he interned at 60 Minutes and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He started several subculture-oriented media companies including The Modernist and the Rocco Entertainment Group. During the 1990s he toured the U.S. and Europe as the lead singer of rock bands The Fighters and The Eclectics. Mojica holds a degree in Political Communication from George Washington University.

Jim Milak
After many years working as an information systems administrator in the material handling industry Jim decided that the effiecient shipping and storage of salty snacks and cigarettes was was better left to those who cared about such things. After dabbling in higher education for twelve years he returned to school full time, deciding to redirect his professional energy towards making the world better instead of just richer. In addition to working in information technology Jim has worked in graphic design, owned a video store, played bass guitar in a band, and was a medic in the Army National Guard. Jim has a degree in Political Science from University of Maryland.

G. Ryan Faith
Ryan is currently an Adjunct Fellow for Space Initiatives at the the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to working on space issues, he was program coordinator for CSIS' Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy where he taught leadership, ethics, and communications to a range of people from interns to members of national parliaments. He has worked on publications focusing on regional military balances, the Iraq War, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and has consulted on defense issues for Jane's Information Group. Ryan holds a B.Sc. in engineering mechanics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana as well as a B.A. in chemistry and mathematics from Rosary College (now Dominican University).