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Sasha Schell

Supervising Reporter at Berkeley Human Rights Center.

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Sasha Schell is a documentary filmmaker and open-source investigative journalist from Berkeley, CA. As the Supervising Reporter at the Berkeley Human Rights Center, he reports outcomes from HRC's investigations and supports student research. As a filmmaker, he has investigated how global supply chains for beef and palm oil have fueled violent land conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon. His most recent work examines the use of less lethal weapons against civilians in protests in the US. Before coming to Berkeley, Sasha was an associate producer and archival researcher for PBS FRONTLINE covering the conflicts in Syria and Afghanistan.

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  • Worth a Thousand Words?

    Nov. 18 '26, 03:00pm Panel Press Hall

    When and how journalists decide to use satellite imagery, the impacts and the costs, and their calls to action for this community. A single image can anchor a story, corroborate a source, or make an atrocity impossible to ignore, but the decision to run it is rarely simple. This session pulls back the curtain on that decision-making process: what journalists weigh before publishing, what it costs them when they get it wrong, and what they wish this community understood better.

    Moderators

    1. Bill Greer

    Speakers

    1. Christoph Koettl
    2. Sarah Cahlan
    3. Krishna Karra
    4. Sasha Schell
    5. Zach Toombs
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  1. LGND

Hosts

  1. Development Seed

  2. Common Space

  3. Taylor Geospatial

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