Profiles

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…

Alicia Ceccanese is CPJ’s global technology researcher. She was previously a staff attorney with the Center for Human Rights at the American Bar Association and has studied law at Georgetown University Law Center and the American University of Paris.

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,…

Mat Nashed is a journalist and analyst covering the Middle East and North Africa. He focuses on human rights and geopolitics and has published in international outlets such as Al-Jazeera, VICE, OZY, and The New Humanitarian.

Christopher Miller is a correspondent who has reported from Eastern Europe for more than 10 years. His work has appeared in BuzzFeed News, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Politico, The Guardian, Vice News, The Atlantic, The Times and The Telegraph, and CNN. He is the author of CPJ’s 2017 report “Justice Denied: Ukraine comes up empty in probe…