Survivors of recent shipwreck at an unknown location between Libya and Italy, Ismam Mowlid of Somalia (L) and Mahmud Muaz of Ethiopia attend a news conference in Athens

Venice Buhain is an online and print journalist whose work has appeared on TVW News, AOL/Patch, The Olympian and other news organizations. She is also the former Editorial Director at The Seattle Globalist. Venice has covered diversity, education, local news and politics. She also is a past Seattle chapter president of the Asian American Journalists Association.