Ken Shulman
Ken Shulman is a veteran print and broadcast journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The New Yorker, CBS/60 Minutes, National Public Radio, the BBC, and PBS. He has covered election campaigns in Liberia, produced radio features in the favellas of Rio de Janiero, and spent time with Italian restorers working on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Ken is a two-time RTDNA Edward R Murrow winner for excellence in broadcasting and was named a Champion of Justice by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Fluent in seven languages, Ken is the author of non-fiction books on art conservation and astronomy. He writes frequently on science, health, and technology for publications including MIT's Technology Review, Spectrum Magazine, and Scientific American.
Ken currently hosts Away Games, a television travel show and learning platform about sport, politics, and human rights. Away Games uses sport as a lingua franca to help viewers connect with lives, conflicts, and cultures around the world. The series has produced films and learning units on cricket between India and Pakistan, African soccer migrants in Italy, and skateboarding on Arizona’s White Mountain Apache reservation.
When not working Ken enjoys playing piano and guitar, soccer, skiing, film, and cycling. He is a reading and writing tutor at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School and runs a film school at the Boys and Girls Clubs in Dorchester and Mattapan. Ken is a graduate of Middlebury College and holds a Master's degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Freedman-Martin Media Fellow in 2003-2004.
The Greatest Rivalry on Earth.
Season I pilot. Two countries with Nukes. Four Wars. And a common culture that begins with cricket. Ken travels to New Delhi to join over a billion people who watch as India meets arch rival Pakistan on the cricket pitch.
Season II pilot: Ken and new cohost Alice Nascimento travel to Naples Italy to spend time with a soccer team that uses sport to fight for immigrant rights.