Staff

The staff behind RadioGoogoo.ca

Maureen Googoo

Maureen Googoo is a proud Mi’kmaq and an award-winning journalist. She is also a co-founder and the Editor-in-Chief of RadioGoogoo.ca.

Maureen was born in Truro, Nova Scotia and raised in the nearby Mi’kmaq community of Indian Brook First Nation. She has spent the better part of her 22-year career in journalism covering Aboriginal issues mostly in Atlantic Canada. Maureen landed her first journalism job in the summer of 1987 as a reporter for the Micmac News, a monthly newspaper published in Nova Scotia. Throughout the years, Maureen has worked for other news media outlets such as the Chronicle-Herald newspaper in Halifax and CBC Radio in Halifax, Sydney, Toronto and La Ronge, Sask.

In early 2000, Maureen joined the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and was part of the original news team that launched the first ever television news show solely dedicated to news coverage of Aboriginal issues across Canada. Maureen opened the Halifax News Bureau for APTN in the spring of 2000 and ran it for more than six years. During her time with APTN, Maureen covered stories such as the Assembly of First Nations election for National Chief, the 2001 Summit of the Americas in Quebec City and the conflicts between Mi’kmaq fishermen and Department of Fisheries conservation officers in Burnt Church, N.B.

In 2004, Maureen was part of a news team at APTN that received an award from the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) for a two-hour television special that aired in September 2003 on the 4th anniversary of the landmark 1999 Supreme Court of Canada ruling in the Donald Marshall, Jr. fishing rights case.

In May 2009, Maureen received the Adrienne Clarkson Diversity Award from the Association of Electronic Journalists (RTNDA Canada) for a documentary she produced for CBC Radio in 2008 on two groups in Nova Scotia who are seeking legal recognition as Aboriginal people.

Maureen has a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in New York City. She also has a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.

Stephen Brake

Stephen Brake is a professional photographer living and working in Halifax. He is also a co-founder and the photo editor of RadioGoogoo.ca.

Stephen was born at Canadian Forces Base Baden-Soellingen in Germany and moved with his family to St. John’s, N.L. and Oromocto, N.B. before settling back home in Halifax, N.S.

Stephen has more than 22 years of photography experience in various genres. He specializes in fine art, landscapes and photojournalism.

Stephen has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from NSCAD University in Halifax, N.S.