Profiles

Beh Lih Yi is CPJ’s Asia Program Coordinator. She has more than 20 years of experience reporting on human rights and social justice across Asia for Agence France-Presse, Thomson Reuters Foundation, independent Malaysian news website Malaysiakini, and other outlets. Follow her on LinkedIn.

Evelyn Okakwu joined the Committee to Protect Journalists as a Nigeria consultant in August 2019. She was appointed CPJ’s West Africa correspondent in January 2021. Okakwu previously worked for four years as a judiciary correspondent for the Premium Times online newspaper and for two years as a general assignment reporter with the Peoples Daily newspaper in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital….

Anna Brakha joined CPJ as a Europe and Central Asia researcher in 2022. Prior to CPJ, she worked in different structures at the crossroads of media and international relations. She holds a master’s degree in international relations and post-Soviet studies from INALCO University and a Master of Science of Management and Media and Digital industries…

Fred Guterl is an award-winning journalist and editor who has covered science and technology for more than 30 years. Currently special projects editor for Newsweek, he is a former executive editor of Scientific American and the author of “The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We…

David Kaye is a clinical professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, and a former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. The views expressed here are his own.  

Laura Rodriguez is a former CPJ intern and an associate project manager at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston. She is an alumna of Northeastern University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in international affairs and journalism and a master’s degree in international affairs with a focus on public policy and Latin America. 

Doja Daoud is CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa representative. Before joining CPJ in March 2022, Daoud worked for the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Araby al-Jadeed as a writer and news editor focusing on press freedom and media monitoring. She also contributed to Lebanese news outlets and co-founded Alternative Press Syndicate, a local union group for journalists. Follow…

Yeganeh Rezaian is a senior researcher at CPJ. An Iranian journalist living in Washington, D.C., she previously worked as the communications director at the World Affairs Council-Washington, D.C., and has written pieces for The Washington Post and The Lily. In Iran, Rezaian covered Iranian political, social, and economic news for Bloomberg News and The National…

June Cross is a writer, filmmaker, and professor at Columbia Journalism School.

CPJ Ukraine consultant Natalie Gryvnyak is a Ukrainian journalist who has reported for international media and is the founder of InFeatures Story Production. She is on Twitter @nataliegryvnyak.