Profiles

Alex Truong is the nephew of imprisoned Vietnamese blogger Tran Huynh Duy Thuc. He and other family members have actively advocated for Thuc’s unconditional freedom. Truong’s passport was confiscated and he was banned from traveling abroad after conducting an advocacy mission for his uncle’s release to Sweden, Nepal, and the Netherlands in 2014.

Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative for the Americas program, works as a correspondent for Dutch newspaper Trouw, and regularly contributes to publications including Newsweek and RTL Nieuws. He is based in Mexico City.

Nicole Schilit is CPJ’s Journalist Assistance Program Coordinator. She has a master’s in public administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a bachelor’s in documentary photography from Oberlin College in Ohio.

A strong believer in individual privacy and personal freedom, Staff Technologist Tom Lowenthal is CPJ’s resident expert in operational security and surveillance self-defense. He is also a freelance journalist on security and tech policy matters. The fingerprint of his GPG public key is 1ADE 9951 1A97 95FA 3557 53DC 51E7 1B75 4A09 B187. Follow him…

Muzaffar Suleymanov, research associate for CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia Program, has a master’s degree in international peace studies from the U.N. University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica.

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