Director of Training
Harlo Holmes
Harlo Holmes is the Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She strives to help individual journalists in various media organisations become confident and effective in securing their communications within their newsrooms, with their sources, and with the public at large.
Senior Trainers
Olivia Martin
Olivia Martin is the Deputy Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation. A graduate of NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, her professional work focuses on researching and delivering digital security trainings to journalists, activists, and human rights defenders.
Runa Sandvik
Runa Sandvik works on digital security for journalists and other high-risk people. Her work builds upon experience from her time at The New York Times, Freedom of the Press Foundation, and The Tor Project.
Trainers
Brian Conley
Brian Conley, co-founder of Small World News, has been involved in media literacy and media democracy work for more than 10 years and has trained journalists and citizen media makers in a dozen countries.
Cecilia Maundu
Cecilia Maundu is a broadcast journalist, a digital rights researcher and a digital security trainer. She is also an African Union Media Fellow. She works at the intersection of journalism, technology and human rights, with a focus on countering online abuse against women journalists while protecting freedom of expression online.
Gisela Pérez de Acha
Gisela Pérez de Acha reports on extremism, disinformation and environmental issues for UC Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program with a focus on digital forensics and network analysis. Gisela has a master’s degree from Berkeley Journalism, where she now teaches cybersecurity and open-source investigations for upcoming journalists in a class that she helped create in partnership with the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab. She recently won a Polk Award for her work in Frontline's film American Insurrection and was also part of an Emmy award-winning team at the New York Times for a story about The Siege of Culiacán. Gisela is a cybersecurity expert and a digital safety trainer with PEN America.
Jeje Mohamed
Jeje Mohamed is a holistic safety and security advisor and risk management expert. She is the co-founder of Aegis Safety Alliance, a collective of women and non-binary media safety experts. She has extensive experience in journalism, human rights, and safety and security.
Laura Tich
Laura is the founder of SheHacks_KE, a group of women cyber security professionals and enthusiasts in Kenya. She is also a Mozilla Open Leader and an advocate for Internet Freedom, having worked on various projects around digital rights across Africa.
Michał Czyżewski
Michał “czesiek” Czyżewski is a public interest technologist with 14+ years of experience making and maintaining web infrastructure and applications (10+ years in NGOs). Czyżewski is also a journalism security expert and digital security trainer who has worked with organisations including OCCRP and Bellingcat.
Guest Lecturers
Barton Gellman
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist, is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Century Foundation. In previous assignments he served tours as legal, military, diplomatic, and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post.
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently Radicalized and Walkaway, science fiction for adults, In Real Life, a graphic novel; Information Doesn't Want To Be Free, a book about earning a living in the Internet age, and Homeland, a YA sequel to Little Brother.
Frank Smyth
Frank Smyth (pronounced like Smythe) is an independent, award-winning investigative journalist specializing in armed conflicts, organized crime and human rights overseas, and on the gun movement and its influence at home.
Iona Craig
Iona Craig is a freelance print and broadcast journalist. Based in Yemen from 2010 to 2015 as The Times (London) Yemen correspondent she regularly returns to the country to cover the ongoing civil war.
James Harkin
James Harkin is the director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. He is a journalist who covers social change and political conflict and whose work appears in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, GQ, The Smithsonian, Prospect and the Guardian.
James Marcus
James Marcus is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and seven translations from the Italian, including Giacomo Casanova’s The Duel. He is the former editor of Harper’s Magazine and has contributed to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The American Scholar, VQR, the Guardian, The Nation, and Best American Essays.
Jessica Bruder
Jessica Bruder is a journalist who writes about subcultures and social issues. In May of 2013 an unusual package arrived on her doorstep. It turned out to be Ed Snowden's full NSA archive, sent by the leaker himself.
John Scott-Railton
John Scott-Railton is a Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab (at The University of Toronto). His work focuses on technological threats to civil society, including targeted malware operations, cyber militias, and online disinformation.
Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras is a filmmaker and journalist. Her film Citizenfour, the third instalment of her post-9/11 Trilogy, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary, along with awards from the British Academy of Film, Independent Spirit Awards, Director’s Guild of America, and Emmy Awards.
Omar Mohammed
Dr. Omar Mohammed is a historian from Mosul, known until recently only as the anonymous blogger Mosul Eye. Through Mosul Eye, Omar set out to inform the world about life under the Islamic State in his city.
Sonia Kennebeck
Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist with more than 15 years of directing and producing experience. She has directed eight television documentaries and more than 50 investigative reports.
Trevor Timm
Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a journalist, activist, and legal analyst whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Guardian, USA Today, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Harvard Law and Policy Review, and Politico.
Programme Managers
Abigail LP
As program manager for the digital security training team, Abigail stewards client services and program development. They have an eclectic professional background, including experience in content production, project management, grassroots fundraising, facilitation, and communications, as well as a rich history as an artist, educator, and community organizer.
Jake Charles Rees
Jake Charles Rees is a curator and Head of the Logan Programme. In this role he manages the Source Protection Programme for the CIJ, as well as the biannual Logan Symposium, Closed Circuit webtv series and Logan Talks public lecture programme.
Former Trainers
C. Orange
Orange is a Newcastle-born Digital Technologist with specialisms in Privacy and Security. Currently working at Reckon Digital, Orange supports and assists NGOs and investigative journalists in digital forensics.
Fabio Natali
Fabio Natali is a London-based information security advisor, software architect, and consultant. His interests lie at the intersection of technology, ethics, and politics. As an information security consultant, he has worked with and provided support to investigative journalists, activists, and human rights organisations, from the UK and abroad.
Igor Ostrovskiy
Igor Ostrovskiy is an experienced professional investigator with a mindset, skillset, and determination to solve problems to help clients do what they want to do. Igor's professional experience started with undercover investigations in 2007.