Cheryl's work, primarily on site policy, quality, accuracy, security issues and research (her nick-name among senior editors is "Cherlock") and her ever vigilant monitoring of content and issues concerning the site will be sorely missed.
Cheryl also covered many protests and actions for OEN, taking extraordinary photographs like the one below, taken December 16, 2010, at the Whitehouse gate, where more than 130 anti-war protesters, including Dan Ellsberg, Ray McGovern, Coleen Rowley, Medea Benjamin, Chris Hedges and many other friends of OEN were arrested. She remains committed to reporting from the front lines of social justice actions.
Veteran Led Civil Resistance (photo by Cheryl Biren)
We want to thank Cheryl from the bottom of our hearts for her tireless efforts in making OEN a much better, smarter, more whole and wiser site.
I'm certain I speak for all who've worked with Cheryl that she has been an inspiration and sterling example of wisdom, judgment and integrity.
Cheryl, we thank you most sincerely, and wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. Should your situation alter at any future time to enable your return to OEN, we will be honored to welcome you back.
Rob Kall and Managing Editors Mikhail Lyubansky, Linda Milazzo and John Moffett
Member Page for Cheryl Biren
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
Check out his platform at RobKall.com
He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)