Staff

Website  launched on 22 July 2016. Will reach cruising altitude with your help.Thanks for your patience!

Sitara Maruf

Work experience as a journalist, author, English lecturer, and media and communications director:

  • Worked as Executive Producer / Anchor / Reporter for the half-hour weekly news-and-features television program HUMAN INTEREST TODAY, which aired on WPXW-TV of PAX and WNVC-TV of MHz Networks, VA
  • Health Science Writer / Editor and Press Officer, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
  •  Internship and production work at the British Broadcasting Corporation, D.C.
  • Media and Communications Director for Census 2000 at a former Maryland Governor’s Office
  • Reporter, India Abroad & Indian News Wires, New York
  • English Lecturer, Montgomery College,  MD

 EDUCATION

  • MA in Journalism and Public Affairs (Broadcast Track) American University, Washington, D.C.
  • MS in Biochemistry, Accredited U.S. equivalent, University of Pune, India
  • BS in Chemistry, Accredited U.S. equivalent, University of Pune, India

PRINT PUBLICATIONS

  • Easy-to-Learn English Grammar and Punctuation, Part 1, 2014, Author

WEBSITES

  • www.theballoonjournal.com for The Balloon Journal — Stories and scientific discoveries in ballooning
  • youtube.com/AmericanMediaPro — Few segments uploaded from her TV program Human Interest Today, which aired in 2002

CONTACT

  1. Phone: 1-888-331-7486
  2. Email:  sitara@theballoonjournal.com