CPJ Staff
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
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Ann K. Cooper worked as a reporter in the former Soviet
Union, Africa, and Washington before joining CPJ. Her voice
is well known to radio listeners in the United States from
her nine years as a correspondent for National Public Radio
(NPR). She has also reported for The Louisville
Courier-Journal, the Capitol Hill News Service,
Congressional Quarterly, The Baltimore Sun,
and National Journal magazine. |
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PROGRAM AND EDITORIAL DIRECTOR |
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A journalist for 17 years before joining CPJ, Chasan was executive editor of The American Prospect and, most recently, of Tikkun magazine. Winner of numerous professional journalism awards for her investigative reporting and articles on politics and public policy, she has appeared as a panelist on public affairs television shows and served as a questioner in televised gubernatorial debates. She received a bachelor's degree in classical and Near Eastern archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and a master's degree in religious studies (specializing in modern Jewish social and intellectual history) from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught in the history department at Temple University, and in the religion departments at Penn and Princeton University. |
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ASSOCIATE EDITOR |
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DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS |
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Leynse joined CPJ in October 1996 as its first Director of Media Relations. She brings to the post career experience in journalism, public and international affairs and education. She was the Associate Director of Public Information at Columbia University for 17 years, where she specialized in cultural and international areas and oversaw the annual announcements of the Pulitzer Prizes, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards in broadcast journalism, and the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for inter-American understanding. Leynse worked as a reporter for The Chicago Daily News after earning a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She later served as a foreign service officer with the United States Information Agency in Korea. Subsequently, she helped produce two independent films for Oceania Productions, a feature-length dramatized work depicting the travails of life on Ullung-do, a remote island 200 miles east of Korea, and a documentary on Japan's Sumo wrestlers. She taught journalism and mass communications for nine years at Washington State University. She is a graduate of Cornell University and an alumna of The Cornell Daily Sun. |
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FINANCIAL DIRECTOR |
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Lanny Mitchell graduated from Cal-State Los Angeles University with a B.A. in finance. He has been in the accounting field for more that 17 years. |
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DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT |
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Harrop joined CPJ as director of development in October 1996. She has more than 15 years of professional experience in fundraising, event management, and marketing, most recently for the United Nations Association of the United States of America. She has also worked for The Museum of Television and Radio and American Ballet Theatre, as well as a number of theatre companies including New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The Acting Company. Harrop has also worked in merchandising and research analysis for Saks Fifth Avenue. She has an M.A. in cinema studies from New York University, where she has also been a candidate in the M.A. program in administration of the performing arts. She holds an A.B. in film and drama from Vassar College, and is also a graduate of The Brearley School. |
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DEVELOPMENT AND SPECIAL PROJECTS ASSISTANTS |
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Amy Bodow graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 with a B.A. in history and American studies. She received an M.A. in Liberal Studies and a New York State Professional Certificate in Museum Studies from New York University in 1997. She worked as a marketing analyst for XCEL Computer Systems in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during summers as well as part-time during the academic year while at Penn. Before joining CPJ, she interned in the Education Department at the American Craft Museum. |
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REGIONAL PROGRAMS
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Since joining CPJ as its Africa program coordinator in
1995, Kerina has launched two media campaigns to draw
international attention to the plight of independent
journalists in Nigeria and Zambia who are targets of
harassment by government leaders intent on silencing
opposition. Kerina's efforts to free imprisoned Nigerian
editor Nosa Igiebor resulted in his release in June 1996,
and she continues to highlight the plight of Zambian editor
Fred M'membe, who faces up to 100 years in prison if
convicted on charges leveled against him for his
reporting. |
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PROGRAM COORDINATOR |
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Before joining CPJ, Joel Simon worked as the Mexico City-based free-lance correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle . He is the author of Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge , published by Sierra Club Books. His work on Latin America has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Columbia Journalism Review. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Stanford University. |
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT |
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Marylene Smeets studied law at the University of Amsterdam, where she specialized in human rights in Latin America, and international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Relations of the Johns Hopkins University. She interned with the Dutch Development Corporation Cebemo, the International Commission of Jurists, and the UN Center for Human Rights. From November 1994 until January 1997, she worked with the U.N. Mission for the Verification of Human Rights in Guatemala. |
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PROGRAM COORDINATOR |
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Neumann, a journalist for 15 years, has been involved with Asian issues for his entire career. As a foreign correspondent based in the Philippines from 1983 to 1989, he covered the overthrow of the Marcos regime and the rise of Corazon Aquino for The San Francisco Examiner, NBC News, the London Sunday Times, and other organizations. Neumann has traveled widely in the region, covering stories in Korea, Burma, Thailand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. He co-wrote the book, Bayan Ko: Images of the Philippine Revolt. He is also a past president of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines. Neumann was the award-winning editor in chief of the Sacramento News & Review from 1991 to 1993. In recent years he has been a freelance writer on topics ranging from criminal justice to technology and business. His recent work on Asian business, culture, and politics has appeared in Wired, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia Inc., Reader1s Digest, and the San Francisco Examiner Magazine. Neumann is a graduate of American University with a degree in international relations. |
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT |
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PROGRAM COORDINATOR |
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Before joining CPJ in March 1997, Lapychak worked for two years as a research analyst with the Open Media Research Institute in Prague, where she contributed to the institute's publications, including OMRI Daily Digest and Transition magazine. Previously, Lapychak was a free-lance correspondent in Kiev, Ukraine, primarily for The Christian Science Monitor. While in Kiev, she also contributed to such publications as Current History, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Times. Prior to that, Lapychak served as an associate editor at the New Jersey-based Ukrainian Weekly newspaper. She has a B.A. in English, with a concentration in journalism, from Rutgers University and speaks Ukrainian and Russian. |
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT |
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA |
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Campagna was a consultant to Human Rights Watch from 1993-96, and traveled to Egypt and Lebanon as part of fact-finding missions in 1994, 1995, and 1996. He is co-author of Egypt: Hostage-taking and Intimidation by Security Forces, a Human Rights Watch report (January 1995), based on field research conducted in June; and Confrontation: The Muslim Brotherhood in the Mubarak Years, published in the Journal of International Affairs (1996). Campagna has lived and studied in Egypt and has also worked as a researcher for the Cairo-based Center for Human Rights Legal Aid. He has a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, with a specialization in Middle East studies and human rights and humanitarian affairs. Campagna earned a B.A. at Fordham, where he majored in political science. |
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OFFICE MANAGER |