Erin Fitzgerald
Erin FitzGerald is on the Television/Documentary track here at the journalism school. "I have been fortunate to live an interesting and perhaps miraculous life. I've lived and worked alongside farmworkers in Washington State, survived a war in Uganda, and recently, at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, I produced and directed a short video on family caregivers of the traumatically brain injured. I was born in Southern California to a Catholic father and an Episcopalian mother. Though I’m not affiliated with any religion, I have a deep respect for spiritual experience, within a religious context or otherwise. I'm interested in people's spiritual awakenings and epiphanies. I want to know what people believe in, care about, and why. Stories about people's personal relationship with God in the face of both everyday choices and uncommon adversity are important and worthy of attention. I like the small stories the best. One of my favorites while working with News21; a pastor at a small church with only eight congregants. But Oh! how they could sing!
