Profiles

Elijah Zarwan is CPJ’s news editor. He previously worked as an analyst and researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations, International Crisis Group, and Human Rights Watch, based mostly out of Cairo, where he also worked as a wire journalist, magazine editor, and television journalist.

Alexandra Ellerbeck, CPJ’s North America program coordinator, previously worked at Freedom House and was a Fulbright teaching fellow at the State University of Pará in Brazil. She has lived in Chile, Bolivia and Brazil.

Kamal Singh Masuta works to improve the Web, with expertise in the areas of website management, social media and graphic design. Follow him on Twitter @7skiestech.

CPJ EU Correspondent Jean-Paul Marthoz is a Belgian journalist and longtime press freedom and human rights activist. He teaches international journalism at the Université catholique de Louvain and is a columnist for the Belgian daily Le Soir.

Endalk Chala is a writer, freelance journalist, and co-founder of the Zone 9 blog in Ethiopia. He left the country in September 2013 to pursue a doctorate in media studies at the University of Oregon.

Kamal Singh Masuta works to improve the Web, with expertise in the areas of website management, social media and graphic design. Follow him on Twitter @7skiestech.

Kamal Singh Masuta works to improve the Web, with expertise in the areas of website management, social media and graphic design. Follow him on Twitter @7skiestech.

Kamal Singh Masuta works to improve the Web, with expertise in the areas of website management, social media and graphic design. Follow him on Twitter @7skiestech.

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…

Yasmin el-Rifae is CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa research associate. Previously, she worked in journalism and human rights in Egypt, focusing on the struggle against sexual harassment. El-Rifae also helps run the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), which takes place annually in the West Bank and Gaza.