Lucy Westcott became director of CPJ’s Emergencies Department in October 2021. She oversees CPJ’s assistance and safety work worldwide. Prior to joining CPJ as James W. Foley research associate in 2018, Westcott was a staff writer for Newsweek, has reported for outlets including The Intercept, Bustle, The Atlantic, and Women Under Siege, and was a…
Sonali Dhawan joined CPJ as an Asia researcher in 2021. Previously, she served as a program officer with the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights and worked with Save the Children, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International USA. Dhawan holds a bachelor’s degree in government and Arabic and Islamic studies from Georgetown University. She…
Natalie Southwick is CPJ’s Latin America and the Caribbean program coordinator. Prior to joining CPJ, she was a member of Witness for Peace’s international accompaniment team in Bogotá, Colombia, a reporting specialist with ACDI/VOCA’s Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Program, and the editor of a website focused on Latin American news. Her work has appeared in the Boston…
Jennifer Dunham joined CPJ as deputy editorial director in May 2018. Prior to CPJ, she worked for six years at Freedom House–including more than two years as the research director for the organization’s Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press reports–and was a lead researcher and spokesperson for the press freedom project.
Arlene Getz is editorial director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Now based in New York, she has worked in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East as a foreign correspondent, editor, and editorial executive for Reuters, CNN, and Newsweek. Follow her on LinkedIn.
Naomi Zeveloff joined CPJ as features editor in July 2020 and was named senior editor for features and analysis in 2023. From 2014 to 2020 she reported from Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, producing stories on Israeli settler youth, Trump’s Middle East policy, and solar panel use in Gaza for outlets such as NPR,…