Janis Chakars is the program director for communication and digital media at Neumann University and Board President of the Latvian Society of Philadelphia. His professional experience spans from Mongolia’s state news agency to G-Town Radio, a community station in Philadelphia, where he currently serves on the board of directors. His research interests center on international communication and media history and he has published in the International Journal of Communication, Journalism History, American Journalism, International Research in Children’s Literature, the Central European Journal of Communication, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of Information Wars in the Baltic States: Russia’s Long Shadow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).