Gideon Yago began his career as a reporter and producer for MTV News and Documentaries and CBS News. He has participated in Emmy, Peabody and Murrow award-winning broadcasts primarily designed to encourage youth engagement in politics, social activism and media literacy. He was the host, creator and producer of ‘The IFC Media Project’, a documentary series about the news on the Independent Film Channel. His radio and magazine reporting have been published by PRI’s ‘This American Life’, Vice and Vanity Fair. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is a writer and producer for scripted television.
For 18 weeks in the summer of 2021 Yago was a volunteer for a number of successful humanitarian evacuations out of Afghanistan, primarily on behalf of high-risk civilian cases and US and Canadian media assets. As a visiting fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Gideon is doing a case study on grassroots humanitarian evacuations from Afghanistan as part of the US-Coalition withdrawal. The hope is to take lessons from those efforts and use them to aid in the coordination, collaboration and resource-sharing of future humanitarian crises.
