
Fullbright scholar Brent Hurd, an employee of Internews who taught journalism in Azerbaijan last year died in late November in Bangalore, India, when a bicycle he was riding was struck by a city bus. Brent’s former students and representatives of the media attended the ceremony. They exchanged their memories about B. Hurd.
Brent Hurd was born in 1970 in Texas. From 2001-2007 he worked for Voice of America and also spent time working as a professor for American University in Washington D.C. For five months, Hurd taught Azeri journalism students in Azerbaijan and also shot footage for a film called “Return to Islam,” which Hurd was in the process of preparing.