Mario Fratti, Committee Member
Italy, Ridotto
FPA Member since 1992
Mario Fratti is a drama critic and a playwright. He was born in Italy but has been living in New York City since 1963. His many plays - amongst them Cage, Refrigerators, Victims, Lovers and Passionate Women - have been performed in more than 600 theaters in 19 languages. The musical Nine (his adaptation of Fellini's film 8 ½ ) won numerous awards, among them the O'Neill Selection Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, 8 Drama Desk Awards and 5 Tony Awards.

Hadar Harel, Committee Member
Israel, Correspondent
FPA Member since 2001
Hadar Harel is a correspondent for Travel News and HOME publications in Israel, covering international destinations, events and projects. She holds a Master's degree from the "Baruch College of Business" and graduated with excellence. She also holds a Bachelor's degree from "The College of Businessmen, The New School of Communications" in Tel-Aviv, where she also graduated with excellence.

Randy Hecht
Randy B. Hecht is New York correspondent for Espacios, the in-flight magazine of Mexico’s Aviacsa airline. Her credits also include El Tiempo (Bogota, Colombia), Público (Guadalajara, Mexico) and Wingspan, the All Nippon Airways in-flight, as well as such US media as National Geographic Traveler, MSN.com, MSN Latino, Continental and Worth. A writer in English and Spanish, Randy is a native New Yorker who jokes that she lives on a small island off the coast of the United States. She has interviewed Oscar, Tony, Grammy and Pulitzer winners; covers travel, Latin American culture, immigration and civil rights issues; and is the recipient of the 2005 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism.

Mika Horelli, Committee Member
Finland, Freelance

Nevena Mandadjieva
Nevena Mandadjieva is a correspondent of the Bulgarian News Agency /BTA/. The Bulgarian News Agency has been acting since 1898 as the national, state information agency for Bulgaria. Nevena holds a Master’s degree from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria “St. Kliment Ohridski” where she graduated with excellence. She also holds a Master’s degree from the Institute of Political Science of Paris /Science-Po/ where she graduated with excellence as well. As a correspondent, Nevena covers a variety of topics but she is mainly concentrated on domestic and foreign policy issues and national security matters. She reports regularly for the Bulgarian National Radio and Bulgarian National television as well.

Dina Pinos, Committee Member
Greece, Paralaxi
Since 1991 Dina Pinos has been both a staff and Freelance Writer for business & cultural reviews, corporate newsletters, investment opportunities, tourism reports, personality profiles for publications - Travel SmartNewsletter.com, Sumitomo Corporation of America Newsletter, CNNfn, People Magazine, Food & Wine, Journal of Commerce, The National Herald, Focus Magazine, PARALAXI, The Athens News, Kerdos Financial Daily, Agora Financial Magazine, Odyssey, The European (UK), The Greek Business Review and EL SOL de Atenas.
 
Since 2001, she has also worked as a Television & Radio Producer, Camera Girl for RAI TV Corporation, producing daily new stories for the TV & Radio coverage from the US to the parent company RAI, the Italian Public TV and supporting Italian journalists and local correspondents in providing daily news, weekly specials, live broadcasts from NY offices, the entire US & Canada. She continues to freelance for Greek television productions.
 
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from CUNY, a Certificate of Political Studies from Institute of Political Science in Paris, France and a Masters of Communications from University of Hawaii, as a East-West Center full scholarship reciprient.

Anjali, Sharma
India, The Statesman
Anjali Sharma is a freelance writer based in New York City. Anjali was born in New Delhi and attended school there. She graduated from Delhi University in 1993. She began her career in broadcasting, working for Indira Gandhi National University, communications division. She also worked for NDTV and Home Television/BBC Hindi Services (now Sahara TV) in New Delhi. She moved to the U.S. in 1997 to attend the master’s degree program in fine arts at Ohio University. She moved to New York in 2000 to work for News India Times as a reporter, covering local politics, arts and culture. She is currently working at the Statesman.