Experience

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  National Endowment For Democracy

  • Senior Program Officer
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  National Endowment for Democracy

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Senior Program Officer

    • Jul 2018 - Present
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area
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  Committee to Protect Journalists

  • United States
  • International Affairs
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • EU Team member

    • Jan 2017 - Jun 2018

    • Recruiting, training, editing, and managing CPJ’s first-ever Brussels-based Europe correspondent covering press freedom issues in EU member states and accession countries• Working closely with CPJ’s Brussels-based EU Representative on shaping up and coordinating CPJ’s EU advocacy strategy, particularly on Turkey, Ukraine, and Russia.• Partnering with the Council of Europe on its Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists by filing new alerts to the Platform and supporting existing alerts.• Recruiting and managing a Ukraine-based correspondent to work on an investigative report on the 2016 murder in Kiev of prominent Belarusian-Russian journalist and CPJ International Press Freedom Award recipient Pavel Sheremet. Drafting report’s concept and providing guidance to correspondent throughout project. Drafting recommendations to Ukrainian government, EU institutions, and U.S. government on combating impunity in Sheremet’s murder.• Recruiting and working with CPJ’s Europe Advisory Group—a panel of prominent international journalists and media experts—on the year’s strategic work plan for CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program. Soliciting advice, feedback, support from group and individual members.• Managing CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia regional pages on Twitter and Facebook.

  • Program Coordinator, Europe and Central Asia

    • Jun 2006 - Jun 2018

    • Direct CPJ’s advocacy, reporting, and research in Europe and Central Asia. Work with CPJ’s Advocacy, Editorial, Development, Journalist Assistance, and Communications departments to shape CPJ’s advocacy response and advance the organization’s profile and goals. Lead numerous advocacy and fact-finding missions across the region, including to Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Hungary, and the European Union.• Write and/or direct the reporting and research of CPJ reports on regional press freedom issues. Publish op-eds and provide media interviews on regional press freedom issues.• Supervise a full-time research associate in New York and two part-time correspondents in Moscow and Istanbul. Supervise program interns. Work closely with CPJ’s Brussels-based EU Correspondent on advocacy response to press freedom threats in the European Union.• Conduct advocacy meetings in Washington, DC, with US State Department, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and other US government leaders to engage on press freedom. • Testify before US Congress on regional press freedom issues; prepare country press freedom reports as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process• Represent CPJ at conferences and panels on press freedom matters.

  • Senior Research Associate, Europe and Central Asia

    • Dec 2003 - Jun 2006

    • Researched, reported, and wrote news alerts, letters, cases, and advocacy statements on a daily basis. Gave media interviews on press freedom issues. Wrote articles for CPJ’s Dangerous Assignments biannual magazine and country reports and essays for the CPJ annual press freedom book Attacks on the Press. • Worked with CPJ’s Journalist Assistance program to provide emergency support to journalists in distress. Expanded CPJ contacts in Europe and Central Asia, and cultivated new sources. Trained and supervised part-time interns. Received visiting regional journalists and spoke at universities on regional press freedom matters.• Participated in CPJ’s first-ever advocacy mission on combating impunity in the then-12 murders of journalists in Russia. Wrote the post-mission special report after interviewing the families of the murdered journalists, which exposed the Russian government’s negligence and procedural violations in investigating the crimes.

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  International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Staff Writer and Program Officer

    • Oct 2002 - Dec 2003
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    • Researched, wrote, and copyedited for the International Journalists’ Network, the ICFJ’s media assistance website. Covered media news in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Drafted press releases. Translated materials from Bulgarian and Russian into English and vice versa. Translated art...