Under
the Dragon homeLonny
Shavelson is a writer, photojournalist, radio journalist and physician whose
articles and photographs have appeared in numerous publications: The
New York Times,
People,
Family
Circle,
Hippocrates
(now Health),
Mother
Jones,
Der
Spiegel,
Newsweek,
The
Los Angeles Times,
and the Sunday newspaper magazines of the San
Francisco Examiner,
San
Francisco Chronicle,
Baltimore
Sun,
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
and others. Shavelson’s radio
productions have aired on NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition
and Day to Day, BBC/PRI’s The World, Voice of America, Sound
Medicine, Prime Time Radio and other shows nationally.
His photographs are distributed by Zuma, Newscom, PictureDesk
International and GlobalAware Photo.
Shavelson has
written, photographed, and produced radio stories about health care in the midst
of war in Central America; needle exchange programs for drug addicts in Europe;
people with mental illness in the U.S.; sharecropping and child labor in the
fields of California; Southeast Asian and Central American refugees in the U.S.;
the recruiting methods of young skinhead Nazis; TV evangelists vs. gays in San
Francisco; towns where families have been made ill by the effects of hazardous
wastes; people with terminal illnesses who are contemplating assisted suicide;
drug addicts in rehab; and even about people who seek love through newspaper
ads.
Shavelson
is the author of five books: Personal
Ad Portraits (De Novo Press, 1983), I’m
Not Crazy, I Just Lost My Glasses (De Novo Press, 1986), Toxic
Nation: The Fight To Save Our Communities From Chemical Contamination,
co-authored with Fred Setterberg (John Wiley & Sons, 1993), A
Chosen Death: The Dying Confront Assisted Suicide (Simon &
Schuster, 1995), and Hooked:
Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System (The New
Press, 2001).
Lonny
Shavelson
was a 2005 Health Journalism Fellow at the USC Annenberg School of
Communication, a 2006 Soundvision fellow in Science Journalism for radio, and
the Poynter Institute/BBC/PRI training in Local-Global Reporting.