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Bureau in Haiti (former publisher of the biweekly Haiti Info), of Somerville Community Access TV in the US and she also taught and developed courses for University of Massachusetts-Boston Community Media & Technology Program. With partners Whitney Dow and Daniel Morel, Regan co-produced and -directed Unfinished Country for the PBS series Wide Angle in 2005. Over the past 20 years Regan contributed to scores of newspapers and magazines as well as several books. While in Haiti, Regan shot for AP Television News, Reuters and others, and wrote for Interpress Service, Latinamerica

Jane Regan is a writer and documentary filmmaker who lived and worked in Haiti for ten years. In the US, Regan produced and associate-produced numerous documentaries, mostly for the US Public Broadcasting System (PBS), including the one-hour Dog's Best Friend and for two series, Americas and Local Heroes, Global Change. She was also director of the Haitian Information

Press and others. Regan was co-recipient of the 2004 Sam Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism and was also a finalist for the 2004 Rory Peck Award for Hard News. See a about her video here. She currently is working on Septentrional: From the North and freelancing, mostly for AP Television News.