Profiles

Mesfin Negash was the managing editor of leading weekly Addis Neger until 2009, when the staff ceased publication and fled Ethiopia under threat of arrest after the paper was accused of anti-state coverage. He now edits Addis Neger Online from exile. In November 2011, Mesfin and other Ethiopian journalists were charged with supporting a terrorist…

Aminata Le Bas, an intern in CPJ’s Africa program, is a Master’s Candidate in International Relations at Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) of Aix-en-Provence in France. Aminata has lived in Burkina Faso as well as France and speaks French, German and English.

Kristin Jones, a consultant to CPJ’s Asia program, is an independent investigative reporter. In 2011, she was part of a team that won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes,” a collaboration between NPR and the Center for Public Integrity. Jones was CPJ’s senior Asia research associate until 2007. She…

Gypsy Guillén Kaiser is CPJ’s chief global affairs officer. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New York, she began her career as a journalist after graduating from New York University.

Elana Beiser is editorial director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She previously worked as an editor for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal in New York, London, Brussels, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Hindessa Abdul is a contributor to Ethiopian news web sites and writes about media issues in Ethiopia.

Sky Canaves is CPJ’s East Asia and Internet Consultant based in Hong Kong. She lectures at the University of Hong Kong on media law and ethics, Chinese media studies, and reporting on China. Previously, Sky reported and blogged for The Wall Street Journal from Beijing and Hong Kong. She has also reported for Bloomberg News…

Elena Milashina is an award-winning, investigative journalist with Novaya Gazeta and a Moscow correspondent for CPJ.

Aminata Le Bas, an intern in CPJ’s Africa program, is a Master’s Candidate in International Relations at Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) of Aix-en-Provence in France. Aminata has lived in Burkina Faso as well as France and speaks French, German and English.

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.