Michèle Montas is a Haitian journalist, former Director of Radio Haiti, and the widow of journalist Jean Dominique. She is also a plaintiff in two judicial cases presently before the Appellate Court in Port au Prince, that against Jean-Claude Duvalier and his collaborators and the case against her husband’s assassins.
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…
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.