Ali Torkzadeh is a freelance researcher and communicator. He uses words, design, images, research and Web media to produce multimedia projects for non-profit and commercial enterprises.

Torkzadeh was a reporter at the Associated Press and other news organizations, as well as a commercial photographer. (mini-resume [0])

Torkzadeh holds a journalism BA from University of Minnesota and a political science MA and e-commerce MBA from Georgia State University . His MA thesis was on emergence of democracy in the Middle East. He divides his time between the U.S., Europe and the Middle East

He is a volunteer with charities in the US and Africa. Torkzadeh is developing BoolBool.net [1] to market handmade products created by the artists of the Third World to First World retail and wholesale customers. The profits are to be reinvested overseas for badly-needed infrastructure and supplies.

Torkzadeh is always available for volunteer assignments abroad to document adversity and NGO achievements. He may be contacted here [1].