Profiles

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.

Malik Siraj Akbar is a Pakistani journalist based in Washington. He founded the first Baloch online newspaper, The Baloch Hal.

Carlos Lauría, CPJ’s program director and senior program coordinator for the Americas, is a widely published journalist. A native of Buenos Aires, he has written extensively for Noticias, the leading Spanish-language newsmagazine. Follow him on Facebook @ CPJ en Español.

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.

Erik Bierbauer is a counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York.

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.