Our Board of Advisors

Kathy Gannon

is a legend, author of several books, and master of reporting. Kathy is The Associated Press News Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has been awarded the IWMF Courage in Journalism and Edward R. Murrow Fellowship. Bringing insight from her decades of experience, she teaches us how to return and do our best

Nicholas Kristof

is a former NY Times columnist and now a candidate for governor of Oregon covering human rights, women’s rights, health, and global affairs. He has won two Pulitzer prizes for his coverage of Tiananmen Square and the genocide in Darfur, in addition to many humanitarian awards. He is the author of several books including Path Appears and Half The Sky, a NO. 1 Best Seller

David Rohde

is an executive editor for news in The New Yorker. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1996 for his coverage of The Srebrenica Massacre. he has also served as the co-chief of The New York Times’ South Asia bureau, and shared a second Pulitzer Prize for The Times’ 2009 Team Coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan

Alexis Gelber

is an editor in Chief of Straus News Manhattan and Adjunct Professor at NYU Journalism. A longtime top editor at Newsweek, and founding books editor of the Daily Beast. Gelber has been an adjunct professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute since 2010. She also hosts a lecture series on innovations in International Journalism For NYU’s Center For Global Affairs

Kati Marton

is an award-winning journalist and author of "The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel". Board member of the American Academy in Berlin. A former NPR and ABC News correspondent. She is the author of True Believer: Stalin's American Spy; Enemies of The People: My Family’s Journey to America, and a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Janine Di Giovanni

is an author, award-winning foreign correspondent and current Middle East editor at Newsweek. She is senior fellow Yale Jackson Institute and Columnist for Foreign Policy and The National. Her book "The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets" is an Amazon Egyptian History Bestseller.

Farahnaz Ispahani

is Senior Fellow of Religious Freedom Institute and The Wilson Center. Co-chair of Anti-Defamation League. She served as a Member of Parliament and Media Advisor to The President of Pakistan from 2008-2012. In Parliament she focused on the issues of terrorism, human rights, gender based violence, minority rights and U.S. - Pakistan relations. She is the author of the book (Oxford University Press 2017) Purifying The Land of The Pure: The History of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities

Ece Temelkuran

is a Turkish journalist, political commentator and author of numerous books. A Founder of Letters from Now, where through letters she writes about the moral issues of today and our choices for now.  She was twice named Turkey’s “Most Read Political Columnist.” She has won numerous awards for her work, including The Pen For Peace Award and Turkish Journalist of The Year

Raza Rumi

is a Pakistani columnist, policy analyst, author of five books including "Delhi by Heart" and "Being Pakistani" and journalist. His work has been published in foreign policy, Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Diplomat, Among Others. He manages The Blog Pak Tea House, a platform for young writers and activists.

Dale Maharidge

is a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and a professor at Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism.

Suzy Hansen

is a mentorship advisor with the Coalition. Author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World. She is a longtime journalist based in Turkey and has written for the New York Times, Vogue, The New Republic and The Atlantic.

Rosie Stephenson - Goodknight

is the Vice President of Wikimedia, in Washington DC. in 2016, she was honored as Wikipedian of The Year, and was shortlisted as a Gem-Tech Laureate by The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) / United Nations Women because of her work in applying technology for women’s empowerment and digital inclusion.