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Board and advisors

Below is a list of current board members and advisors.

Advisory board

• Yuen Ying Chan
  Journalist and the Founding Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong
• Tracey Durning
  Film producer and Founding CEO of Energy Options Network
• Salimah Y. Ebrahim
  Journalist and Co-founder of Artery and Bramble
• Jon Festinger
  Vancouver-based counsel and educator
• Rima Hyder
  Head of Investor Relations at Sportrada
• Scott McIntyre
  Co-founder of Douglas & McIntyre
• Sirish Rao
  Director of Public Engagement and Learning at Vancouver Art Gallery
• Farid Rohani
  Entrepreneur and community leader
• Anya Schiffrin
  Journalist and Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
• Ronald N. Stern
  Founder and President of Stern Partners
• Charles Tsai
  Director of Philanthropy and Foresight at the Institute for the Future
• Dana Wolfe
  Journalist and independent media consultant

Journalism advisors

Our Journalism Advisors are drawn from leaders in the global journalism community who provide advice and guidance.

• Anne Applebaum
  Columnist, Washington Post and Slate
• David Beers
  Editor and Founder of The Tyee
• Andy Carvin
  Managing editor at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab
• Sheila Coronel
  Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.
• Kathryn Gretsinger
  University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
• Richard Harris
  Former Senior Producer, ABC News & NPR
• Bonnie Sherr Klein
  Filmmaker
• Donatella Lorch
  Former Director, Knight International Press Fellowship
• Emilio San Pedro
  Coordinating Editor, BBC Monitoring
• Sudarsan Raghavan
  Correspondent at large for The Washington Post
• Ahmed Rashid
  Author and journalist
• David Rohde
  American author and National Security Investigations Editor for Reuters, Atlantic Contributing Editor, CNN Contributor.
• Kendyl Salcito
  Executive Director, NomoGaia
• Joel Simon
  Author and Founding Director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York.
• Susan Talalay
  Producer and Director
• Salil Tripathi
  Author, correspondent, and chair of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee