Profiles

Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa director, 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 democratically…

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…

Ann Cooper is Professor Emerita, Columbia Journalism School and a former executive director of CPJ. Before joining CPJ she was a foreign correspondent for NPR, including serving as Moscow bureau chief from 1987 to 1991.

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.