Profiles

Rebecca Vincent is an American-British human rights activist and writer currently based in London. She is a former U.S. diplomat and has worked with a wide range of international and Azerbaijani human rights and freedom of expression organizations.

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…

Hamid Mir is the executive editor of Pakistan’s Geo Television.

Sara Rafsky, former research associate in CPJ’s Americas program, is a freelance journalist and M.S. candidate in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was previously researcher on Central America at Amnesty International in Mexico City.

Borja Bergareche is a Spanish-based news executive and former Europe correspondent for CPJ who still advises the organization.

Patrick Timmons is a translator, human rights investigator, and journalist based in the Americas. He edits the Mexican Journalism Translation Project. Follow him on Twitter @patricktimmons.

Nina Gupta is a third-year student at Duke Law School in Durham, North Carolina.

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.

Tom Rhodes is CPJ’s East Africa representative, based in Nairobi. Rhodes is a founder of southern Sudan’s first independent newspaper. Follow him on Twitter: @africamedia_CPJ

Omwa Ombara is a veteran Kenyan journalist. She lives in exile in the United States.