Sean Harder

Sean Harder is a former newspaper journalist who spent seven years in the industry covering cops, local government, business, education and, most recently, the U.S. Army.

His reporting has led to explore the back alleys of homelessness, comb through government databases, interview families of fallen soldiers, meet wtih Hezbollah guerilla leaders in Lebanon and ride on the back of an ox-cart through a village in India.

Sean has worked at The Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette, Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer and The Savannah (Ga.) Morning News.

Sean is now the program officer for media outreach at The Stanley Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan foreign policy think tank in Muscatine, Iowa. The foundation focuses on peace and security issues and positive international cooperation. It also seeks to the educate the public about the changing global order.

Sean manages the foundation's jouranlism training and reporting projects that led to 2008 collaborations with the International Reporting Project, Reuters Foundation and Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.

His profession and personal travels have taken him to Bulgaria, China, India, Ireland, Israel, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Poland, South and North Korea, and Turkey.