Tim Crockett is a former U.K. Special Forces commando and the chief executive officer of Pioneer Consulting Group, a security training and consulting firm. He is a security adviser to CNN, and accompanied a three-person CNN crew led by international correspondent Arwa Damon to Homs, Syria, last March.
Nicole Schilit is CPJ’s Journalist Assistance Program Coordinator. She has a master’s in public administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a bachelor’s in documentary photography from Oberlin College in Ohio.
Mauri König, a Brazilian investigative reporter, has worked with Gazeta do Povo since 2002. He previously worked for the newspapers O Estado de São Paulo, Gazeta Mercantil, Folha de Londrina, and O Estado do Paraná. He is a board member at the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalists (ABRAJI), a CPJ partner. König is a 2012…
Rebecca Wexler is an independent documentary filmmaker, visiting fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and co-founder of the Yale Visual Law Project. She holds a bachelor’s in history of science from Harvard College and a master’s in philosophy in history of science and technology from Cambridge University, where she was a Gates…
Joel Simon was the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists from 2006 to 2021. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, World Policy Journal, Asahi Shimbun, and The Times of India. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. His…
Sumit Galhotra is the research associate for CPJ’s Asia program. He served as CPJ’s inaugural Steiger Fellow and has worked for CNN International, Amnesty International USA, and Human Rights Watch. He has reported from London, India, and Israel and the Occupied Territories, and specializes in human rights and South Asia.