Hélène Biandudi Hofer

Hélène Biandudi Hofer is a broadcast journalist, documentary filmmaker, media entrepreneur, and conflict coach. She led an award-winning TV news magazine program in Western New York for nearly a decade, exploring remedies to societal challenges. Her work spans investigating police reform in Camden, New Jersey, to examining education opportunities in South Sudan. Hélène is the founding principal of Good Conflict, LLC, which helps communities and companies get smarter about how they fight. Through her work in conflict, Hélène has trained over a thousand journalists across 175 newsrooms worldwide on how to transform their coverage of controversial and divisive issues. She has worked with CBS, NPR, and PBS and collaborated with reporters, filmmakers, and journalist-serving organizations around the globe. Hélène credits her passion for journalism and storytelling to her Nkoko [great-grandmother], the oral historian of the Biandudi family in Kinshasa, DRC.