Global Mentors
The Coalition For Women In Journalism — #CFWIJ
Lynn Walsh Is an Emmy Award-Winning investigative journalist who has worked in investigative, data and TV journalism at the national level as well as locally in California, Ohio, Texas and Florida. She is also The National President of SPJ.
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Mentorship Beat: FOIA, Investigative Journalism.
Jane Ferguson Is An Award Winning Correspondent With Pbs Newshour. She Spent Over A Decade Covering Middle East And Afghanistan. Read her full bio here.
View her work here. Mentorship Beat: Personal Professional Growth As Foreign Correspondent
Hwaida Saad Is A Reporter With The New York Times And Has Covered Iraq, Syria And Jordan.
Mentorship Beat: Syria, Middle East, Conflict Reporting.
Janine Di Giovanni Is An Author, Award-winning Foreign Correspondent And Current Middle East Editor At Newsweek. 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. Read full bio here.
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Jenan Moussa is A Journalist Based In Dubai, Covering The Middle East And Terrorism. Reporting from Syria, Libya, Iraq & more for Al-Aan TV. Read full bio here.
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Jessica Hatcher-Moore Is a writer and journalist and British non-fiction writer. Her Work Primarily Covers Conflict And Crisis In East Africa. Read full bio here..
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Allison Joyce is A Photojournalist Based Between Mumbai, India And Dhaka, Bangladesh. Read full bio here.
View her work here. Mentorship Beat: Human Rights And Gender Issues
Diaa Hadid Covers Pakistan And Afghanistan For NPR News. Earlier She Reported From The Middle East For Over A Decade. For The New York Times And The AP. View her work here. Mentorship Beat: Foreign Correspondence
Gabriela Mac is An Author And An Award-winning Journalist Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Careers, Tackling Trauma, Haiti
Katie Nelson Is A Journalist Covering Human Rights, Global Health And Accountability Issues In East Africa. View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: East Africa
Megan Pratz Is An International News Producer Based In Washington, Dc. Credits Include Al Jazeera, Pbs And Fox News. View her work here..
Mentorship Beat: Work-Life Balance; Women’s Right; TV & Digital Journalism
Nikita Saxena Is An Award Winning Journalist And Editor At India Best Known Literary And Politics Magazine The Caravan. View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: India, Editing
Shaheen Pasha Is An Assistant Professor Of International Journalism At Umass Amherst. Assistant Professor at Penn State. Co-founder and executive director of Prison Journalism Project. Read full bio here. Mentorship Beat: Business Reporting, How To Pitch
Soraya Chemaly Is The Director Of The Women's Media Center Speech Project. Author of Rage becomes Her. View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: Gender and Its Role in Journalism
Amber Rahim Shamsi Is An Award Winning Journalist And News Anchor Based In Pakistan. View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: Pakistan, Career.
Jay Newton-Small Is A Time Magazine Correspondent And The Author Of “broad Influence: How Women Are Changing The Way America Works.” Founder of Memory Well. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Careers
Rohini Mohan Is An Award Winning Author And Journalist From India. She Writes About Environment, Politics And Human Rights Is South Asia. Read full bio here..
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Mentorship Beat: India
Danielle Villasana Is A Photojournalist Whose Documentary Work Focuses On Women, Identity, Human Rights And Health.
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Mentorship Beat: Photography
Mansi Choksi Is A Writer Based In New York Reporting On Gender, Crime, Pop-culture And The Politics Of Opportunity. a writer based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Mumbai, India. Her first book “The Newlyweds” will be published in June 2022. Read her full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Reporting
Smita Sharma Is An Independent Photojournalist Based Between Delhi, Kolkata And New York Focusing Primarily On Gender Violence And Human Rights Issues. Read her full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Photography
Amna Nawaz Is An Award Winning Journalist Based In New York. A chief correspondent at PBS News. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Photography
Alexis Gelber Is An Award-winning Editor And Journalist With Experience In Digital And Print Media. Editor in Chief of Straus News-Manhattan. A Longtime Top Editor At Newsweek, And Founding Books Editor Of The Daily Beast. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Editing
Haya Fatima Iqbal Is A Documentary Filmmaker And Journalist Based In Pakistan. An Academy and two-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. She directs, produces, and shoots films across Pakistan. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Film Making
Julia Hahn Is A Tv Journalist And Moderator Based In Istanbul And Berlin. She Currently Works As Turkey Correspondent For Dw, Germany’s International Broadcaster.
Valerie Hopkins Is A Journalist Based In Kosovo Working For The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network As Well As Freelancing For Various Publications. She covers Hungary, Romania, Albania and the former Yugoslavia for the Financial Times. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: The Balkans
Jennifer Percy Is A Multi-award Winning American Journalist Based Out Of New York Who Is A Recipient Of Prestigious National Magazine Award Among Others. A contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and recipient of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Global, Magazine Story-Telling
Gelareh Kiazand Is a filmmaker based between Tehran and Toronto. She Has Mainly Documented Iran And Afghanistan, Working On Projects With News Media And Hollywood. Read full bio here. View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: Iran, Afghanistan
Alessandria Masi is an associate editor at CNN and based In The Middle East. She Is The Managing Editor With @syriadeeply. VIiew her work here.
Mentorship Beat: Lebanon
Nadia Sussman Is a staff video journalist at ProPublica. Based In Brazil. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Video Reporting
Sulome Anderson Is A Journalist And Author Based In New York And Beirut, Lebanon View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: Lebanon
Nermeen Shaikh Is A Broadcast News Producer And Co-host At Democracy Now! View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: Consultant, Film
Sahar Habib Ghazi Is The Managing Editor At Global Voices. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Journalism
Maria De La Guardia Is A Photo And Video Journalist Based In Afghanistan Covering Conflict And Disasters With A Humanitarian Focus. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Afghanistan
Nighat Daad Is The Founder For Digital Rights Foundation, A Leading Online Safety And Rights Group In Pakistan. Daad Has Won The Tulip Award Among Others And Is A Ted Fellow. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Pakistan, Digital Rights
Sara Farid Is An Independent Photo And Film Journalist, Based In Pakistan. View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: Film & Photo, Pakistan
Ayesha Tanzeem Is Director of South and Central Asia at VOANews. A Television Journalist, Having Been In This Field For More Than A Decade, She's Reported From Pakistan, USA And Afghanistan. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Afghanistan, Pakistan
Jeta Xharra
Is The Co-Founder Of Birn And Longtime Journalist Based Out Of Kosovo. Watch her TED talk here.
Mentorship Beat: Shattering Walls In Systems.
Mandakini Gahlot Is A Journalist And Filmmaker Based In India. She Is A Contributor To France 24, Al-jazeera And Others Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Human Rights and Politics in India
Megha Rajagopalan Is The China Bureau Chief And Asia Correspondent For Buzzfeed News. Her Work Has Also Appeared In The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Wired And Other Publications View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: Human Rights, Investigations
Laura Pitel Is Financial Times’ Turkey correspondent and based in Ankara, The Turkish Capital. She Covers Turkish Politics And Society, The Economy, Foreign Policy And Syrian Refugees. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Turkey
Jill Langlois Is A Freelance Journalist Currently Based In Brazil. She Is Also Helping The Coalition Compile Resources For Fellow Journalists. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Brazil
Shelly Kittleson Is A Journalist Specializing In The Middle East And Afghanistan. Her Work Has Been Published In Several International, US And Italian Media Outlets. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Conflict Reporting
Beth Murphy Is An American Documentary Director, Producer And Author Who Founded The Film Production Company Principle Pictures And Is The Director Of Groundtruth Films. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Afghanistan & Filmmaking
Lauren Bohn Is a fellow in New America's International Security program. She is the GroundTruth Project’s inaugural Middle East correspondent and editor-at-large. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Middle East, Gender, Development
Amanda Sperber is a multi-award-winning foreign correspondent and investigative journalist. Contributor To Al Jazeera English, Foreign Policy, Glamour, And The Guardian, Among Others. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Kenya
Ilana Panich-Linsman Is A Photojournalist Based In Austin, Texas. Her Work Focuses On Women, Human Rights, Youth Culture, Immigration, And Health. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, Regugees, Cultural Heritage, Health, Personal Essays, Opeds
Sophie Cousins Is A Health Journalist Based In South Asia. Her Work Focuses On The Systems That Perpetuate Gender Inequality And The Impact This Has On Women's And Girls' Health. Read full bio here.
Mentorship Beat: Health, South Asia
Megan O’toole Is an award-winning investigative and data journalist with a career spanning two decades and based In Canada And The Middle East Whose Reporting Focuses On Law, Politics, Conflict And Human Rights. View her work here.
Mentorship Beat: Canada, Middle East, Careers
Charlotte Alfred is an editor and journalist at Lighthouse Reports, based In Beirut. She Has Worked On Documentaries For Pbs Frontline, Including Egypt In Crisis. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Refugees, Migration. Lebanon & Palestine
Annie Kelly Is An Award-winning Journalist And Editor For The Guardian And Observer Newspapers. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Human Rights, Work/life Balance And Mental Health, Ptsd, Interviewing Vulnerable Communities
Beena Sarwar Is A Veteran Journalist And Documentary Film Maker From Pakistan, Based In Boston, Ma. Her Focus Areas Are Gender, Media, Peace, And South Asia. She Has Held Several Editorial Positions Since The Early 90's. Read full bio here.
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Mentorship Beat: Pakistan, Human Rights
Aurora Almendral
Is An Award-winning American Journalist. Currently a senior reporter at Quartz. Based In Manila And Covering Southeast Asia. She Writes For The New York Times And National Geographic Magazine, And Is A Producer/Reporter For NBC News. Read full bio here. View her work here.
Malika Bilal Is An International News Journalist, the host of the Al Jazeera Podcast The Take, And Moderator Based In Washington, Dc. She Is Currently Co-host Of The Stream, An Emmy-nominated News Talk Show Centered On Online Community Participation, Where She Facilitates Live On-air Panel Discussions While Simultaneously Bringing In Viewer Questions, Comments And Feedback. View her work here.
Angela Dewan is the International Editor for CNN's Climate team.. She Covers Breaking World News Stories, Writes Political Analysis, And Produces And Edits Digital Content From Senior Correspondents. She Has In Recent Years Focused Her Work On Putin's Russia, The Syrian War, Brexit And Developments In Turkey After The Failed 2016 Coup. View her work here.