CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour has worked to advocate for democracy and human rights in Egypt. He has a master’s in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a bachelor’s in education from Cairo’s Al-Azhar University. Follow him on LinkedIn.
Roxana Saberi is a journalist for Al-Jazeera America. She was working as a freelance journalist in Iran when she was detained for 100 days in 2009 on charges of espionage. Her book, Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran, chronicles her experiences and the stories of her fellow political prisoners in Evin Prison.
Jessica Jerreat is senior editor at the Committee to Protect Journalists. She previously edited news for the broadsheet press in the U.K., including for the foreign desk of The Times of London, and at The Telegraph. She has a master’s in War, Propaganda, and Society from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Rachael Levy, CPJ’s Google Journalism Fellow, is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, GlobalPost, the Atlantic, Slate, and others. She is pursuing her master’s degree in multimedia and business reporting at the CUNY 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…
Rachael Levy, CPJ’s Google Journalism Fellow, is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, GlobalPost, the Atlantic, Slate, and others. She is pursuing her master’s degree in multimedia and business reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
Attila Mong is a freelance journalist and CPJ’s Berlin-based Europe correspondent. He is a former John S. Knight Journalism Fellow and a Hoover Institution research fellow, both at Standford University. He was awarded the Pulitzer Memorial Prize for Best Investigative Journalism in 2004 and the Soma Investigative Journalism Prize in 2003.