Profiles

Abdiaziz Abdinuur Ibrahim is a Somali freelance journalist who studied social science. He has reported for several local and international news outlets.

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

Kamel Labidi is a freelance journalist and former CPJ representative and consultant for the Middle East and North Africa region. Labidi returned from exile to Tunisia in 2011 to head the National Commission to Reform Information and Communication. He resigned in 2012 to protest the lack of political will of the Islamist-led government to implement…

Josh Stearns is the Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director of Free Press and a board director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, an advocacy group whose other directors include the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras and the actor John Cusack.

Sandra Mims Rowe was elected chairman of CPJ in 2011, having joined CPJ’s board of directors in 2003. Rowe was editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, from 1993 until January 2010. Under her leadership, the newspaper won five Pulitzer Prizes, including the Gold Medal for Public Service. She was the Knight Shorenstein Fellow at…

Elizabeth Dickinson is author of the Kindle Single Who Shot Ahmed? A mystery unravels in Bahrain’s botched Arab Spring.

Samantha Libby, CPJ’s digital manager, has worked in freedom of expression and human rights in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Kalimantan, and West Papua. She has also investigated the domestic and international arms trade. She is a playwright, artist, and an award-winning writer.

Mhamed Krichen is a Doha-based anchor and program host for Al-Jazeera.

San Francisco-based CPJ Technology Program Coordinator Geoffrey King works to protect the digital rights of journalists worldwide. A constitutional lawyer by training, King also teaches courses on digital privacy law, as well as the intersection of media and social change, both at UC Berkeley. Follow him on Twitter at @CPJTechnology. His public key fingerprint is…

Shazdeh Omari is CPJ’s news editor. Former copy chief for The Village Voice, she has worked as a reporter and editor in the United States and Greece. Omari was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, where she learned to read, speak, and write Urdu.