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Jon Sawyer, Executive Director
Jon Sawyer is director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that funds independent reporting with the intent of raising the standard of media coverage of global affairs.
Nathalie Applewhite, Managing Director
Nathalie Applewhite has worked nationally and internationally on documentaries, educational, political and commercial productions as a producer, director, and editor. She has also worked as a project manager and media specialist for the University of Pennsylvania’s Literacy Research Center, and as a consultant for the United Nations...
Ann Peters, Director of Development and Outreach
Ann Peters has worked as journalist, lawyer and director of non-profit initiatives. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgetown University Law Center, Peters began her career as a correspondent for United Press International. Most recently, Peters served as grants management consultant to MAG America.
Christina Paschyn, Projects Coordinator
Christina is an international journalist and holds both a bachelor and a master's degree in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 2008 she was awarded a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship to study in Be'er Sheva, Israel, where she received a Master of Arts degree in Middle East Studies from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev...
Mark Stanley, New Media Strategist
Mark Stanley joined the Pulitzer Center in December 2009 as social media coordinator. Mark has worked on the communication teams for Investigative Reporters and Editors and Newsy.com. He also worked at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C., where he spent his final semester of graduate school on a scholarship from the White House Correspondents’ Association...
Maura Youngman, Education Coordinator
Maura Youngman joined the Pulitzer Center as an intern in August, 2009. In the past, Maura worked as a columnist, reporter, and editor for Hamline University's student weekly, The Oracle. She also devoted time to the Minnesota based Twin Cities Daily Planet, and Edinburgh based Spain Magazine...
Tatum Taylor, Education Coordinator
Tatum joined the Pulitzer Center team in August 2009. She is a recent graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She holds an honors B.A. in English with an emphasis in creative writing, and a minor in French. Prior to the Pulitzer Center, she worked as a marketing intern at Brookings Institution Press in Washington, D.C...
Summer Marion, Special Projects Coordinator
Summer Marion joined the Pulitzer Center in fall 2009. Prior, she worked in non-profit event planning and as an editorial intern for the World Security Institute’s Middle East publications, Arab Insight and Taqrir Washington. Summer received a B.A. international relations and economics from the College of William & Mary...
Peter Sawyer, Special Projects Coordinator
Peter Sawyer is a 2009 graduate of Davidson College with a degree in Economics. In 2008, he received a Bank of America-Kemp Grant to study determinants of entrepreneurship on the community level. Peter was a volunteer fire fighter with the local fire department throughout his time in Davidson...
Christian Pelfrey, College of William and Mary Security Fellow
Christian joined the Pulitzer Center in June 2010. His research is focused on Sudan's issues with national security. Originally from Amherst, Virginia, Christian is a rising senior at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He will graduate in May 2011 with a double major in International Relations and Italian. ...
Felix Fabiny, Outreach Specialist
A Hungarian native, Felix is currently a History and Political Science major at Davidson College, NC. Prior to supporting the work of the Pulitzer Center, Felix interned at international development organizations in both Hungary and Peru, where he studied for a semester...
Brian Wilcox, Bonner Fellow
A rising junior at Lynchburg College, Brian is an electronic media communication major with a minor in graphic design. Currently a Bonner Student, he has hands-on experience working with non-profits from both the volunteer and administrative sides...
Kate Steger, Outreach Specialist
Kate Steger received a Masters of Public Health with a concentration in International Health from Boston University in May 2010. She also has an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Minnesota and a BA in English from the University of Kansas...
Consultants
Mohamed Elkafoury, Webmaster - www.pulitzercenter.org
Mohamed Elkafoury became the organization's webmaster in 2006. Elkafoury has also worked for WSI's Arabic language publication, Taqrir Washington, WSI's Persian language publication, Washington Prisml and Voice of America's Arabic Division. He moved to the United States from Egypt in 2001 after completing his B.S. in engineering...
Dan McCarey, Site Design/Development - www.pulitzergateway.org
As a freelance designer, developer and media enthusiast, Dan provides creative and sustainable online solutions for a range of clients from international organizations to impoverished bloggers. Before heading out on his own, he worked at a nonprofit, as a media trainer and had a spell as a political cartoonist...
Pulitzer Center University Student Liaisons
The Pulitzer Center Student Liaisons are a group of dedicated, well-connected students with a passion for international affairs and journalism. Student Liaisons work with the Pulitzer Center to help get the word out about international reporting topics on campus- through events, radio shows, flyering, tabling, blogging, tweeting, hosting movie nights, offering roundtable discussions, writing editorials, and any other way they know how. Sound like fun? Learn more, here.
Jennifer Talevi
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Grant Slater
Medill - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Betsy Grether
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Natalie Conrad
University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Lindsey Rykal
University of Wisconsin, River Falls
Shreeya Sinha
Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism
Twitter: shreeyasinha
Aisha Mohammed
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Claire Luke
College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
Courtney Meyers, Graduate Student
University of Memphis
David P. Karas, Bonner Scholar
The College of New Jersey
Allison Reilly
St. Louis University
Susannah Callahan
Washington University in St. Louis
Sol Israel
Carleton University, Ottawa
Angela Massino
Lynchburg College, Virginia
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