Daniela Salgueiro graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in English and Communications. Through 2018, she worked as a Reporter and Photographer for the Town Crier Newspaper and the Wellington Magazine, where she primarily reported on local and state government news. Originally from Venezuela, Daniela is fluent in Spanish and has also worked as an interpreter for Spanish-speakers in South Florida. As Report For America’s Operations Associate, Daniela supports the team in the recruitment and on-boarding process of our corps members and newsrooms.
Sam Kille brings more than two decades of nonprofit communications and leadership experience to his role as Vice President of Communications. He has secured media coverage with print and broadcast outlets around the world, and has appeared on several national programs, including CNN American Morning; Wake Up With Al; MSNBC Live; FOX News Live; Katie Couric; CBS Early Show; Celebrity Apprentice; Anderson Cooper Live; and Wall Street Journal Live.
Before joining The GroundTruth Project and Report for America, Kille was the communications director for the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty. Prior positions have included communications manager for the Bob Woodruff Foundation, a grant-making organization that supports post-9/11 impacted veterans; public affairs officer for Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster relief organization; and regional communications director for the American Red Cross in Greater New York, during which he served as the chief spokesperson for the response to Superstorm Sandy.
Kille began his professional career as an award-winning military journalist and public affairs specialist in the U.S. Marine Corps. He has a bachelor's degree in public affairs from the State University of New York Empire State College; a certificate in nonprofit development and management from Molloy College; an associate degree in media from Nassau Community College; and studied journalism at the Defense Information School. He resides with his family on Long Island, N.Y.
Michael Karam is The GroundTruth Project’s Development Communications Associate. Previously working in communications at Trickle Up, an international poverty alleviation nonprofit partnered with the UN's refugee agency UNHCR, Michael was the refugee team’s storyteller, visiting Zambia and Ecuador to document the experiences of program participants. He has also worked as a translation project manager and often dabbles in translation and interpretation. He studied economics, international relations and math at the University of Pennsylvania, where his thesis focused on the multilingual media frameworks of Hezbollah and his independent study analyzed queer language in his home country of Lebanon. Michael is fluent in Arabic and French, knows some Spanish and is currently learning Farsi.
