Lucy Westcott joined CPJ as a James W. Foley Emergencies Research Associate in 2018 and was appointed Emergencies Director in October 2021. Prior to joining CPJ, Westcott was a staff writer for Newsweek, where she covered gender and immigration. She has reported for outlets including The Intercept, Bustle, The Atlantic, and Women Under Siege, and was…
CPJ’s India representative Kunal Majumder has worked for outlets including the Indian Express, Rajasthan Patrika, Tehelka and Vice. He is a winner of the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting and UNDP-Laadli Award for Gender Sensitivity. He is on the steering committee of the Impulse NGO Network Press Lab, which supports reporters who cover human trafficking….
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…
Danya Hajjaji is CPJ’s Patti Birch Fellow for Middle East Research, examining tech censorship in North Africa. Prior to joining CPJ, Hajjaji held internships at Reuters in Toronto and Agence France-Presse in Washington, D.C. Born and raised in Libya, she is fluent in English, French, and Arabic.
CPJ Latin America Researcher Dánae Vílchez is a Nicaraguan multimedia journalist whose work has appeared in openDemocracy, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Pikara Magazine, among others. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Amsterdam and has been a fellow with the International Center for Journalists and the International Women’s Media Foundation.