Anthony Advincula is a New York-based editor, writer and national media outreach coordinator for New America Media (Pacific News Service). He was a former correspondent for the Associated Press and Jersey Journal, editor of The Filipino Express, and the communications director of the Independent Press Association-New York, where he co-edited Voices That Must Be Heard. In 2003 and 2004, he won several journalism awards at the New York Independent Press Awards for his investigative reporting on immigration and labor issues. He was a recipient of a number of journalism fellowships, including the New York Times Foreign Press Fellowship, Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting and National Institute on Drug Abuse's Addiction Studies Program for Journalists. He attended the University of the Philippines, Harvard University, and Columbia University, where he was awarded a Charles H. Revson Fellowship and received his dual master's degrees in journalism and public administration, with a concentration in urban and social public policy.