Soleyana S. Gebremichael is a founding member of the Zone 9 bloggers and a freedom of expression advocate from Ethiopia. She left Ethiopia in February 2014 after facing terrorism charges for her blogging. Soleyana currently works as a coordinator for the Ethiopia Human Rights Project.
Aayush Soni is an independent journalist in New Delhi who has written for Indian and international outlets including The Guardian, The Caravan, The Indian Express, India Ink-The New York Times, India Real Time-The Wall Street Journal, Scroll, The Wire, and OZY. Soni is an alumnus of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is the advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists and the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change. As a veteran journalist, researcher, and free expression advocate she writes and speaks frequently about the intersection of media, technology, and human rights. Follow her on…
Steven Butler is a senior program consultant for CPJ. He previously served as CPJ’s Asia program coordinator, lived, and worked in Asia as a foreign correspondent for nearly 20 years and was a foreign editor at the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau. He holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University.
Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa program coordinator, worked as a journalist for more than two decades in South Africa, including as editor of the Mail and Guardian. She is a former secretary-general of the SA National Editors’ Forum, edited The Witness and The Mercury, and was presidential correspondent during Nelson Mandela’s term as South Africa’s first…
San Francisco-based CPJ Technology Program Coordinator Geoffrey King works to protect the digital rights of journalists worldwide. A constitutional lawyer by training, King also teaches courses on digital privacy law, as well as the intersection of media and social change, both at UC Berkeley. Follow him on Twitter at @CPJTechnology. His public key fingerprint is…