Profiles

Normando Hernández González was the director of the news agency Colegio de Periodistas Independientes de Camagüey when he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was held for many months in an isolation cell at the maximum-security Kilo 7 Prison in his home province of Camagüey.

Ricardo González Alfonso, a poet and screenwriter, began reporting for Cuba’s independent press in 1995. He founded the award-winning newsmagazine De Cuba and a Havana-based association of journalists, and then worked as a freelance reporter and Cuba correspondent for the Paris-based press freedom group Reporters Without Borders.

Dolia Estévez is an independent Mexico correspondent based in Washington.

Karen Phillips is interim research associate in CPJ’s Americas program. A former associate in CPJ’s Journalists Assistance program, she is the author of the CPJ special report, “A Somali Journalist in Exile.”

Mazhar Abbas is the former secretary-general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and a 2007 winner of CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award.

Erwin Arnada is the former editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia.

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

Clifford Derrick is a freelance journalist based in Johannesburg. He has served as CPJ’s Africa correspondent.

Nassirou Diallo, a former reporter with Radio Nostalgie in Guinea who has been living in exile in Brooklyn, N.Y. since 2009, is an intern in CPJ’s Africa program.

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.