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Meet the ProJourn team.

ProJourn Staff

Flavie Fuentes

Director

Christina Piaia

Legal Manager

Karla Burgos-Morón

Coordinator

Advisory Committee

In addition to representatives from founding partners (Microsoft, Davis Wright Tremaine, the Knight Foundation, and the Reporters Committee), the advisory committee includes leaders from the legal, journalism, and tech fields.

The ProJourn advisory committee provides the ProJourn staff with strategic advice, notably: (i) how best to scale and expand the program nationwide, (ii) identification of potential newsroom partners, and (iii) how best to attract and support isolated journalists. 

Ginny Badanes

Senior director, Democracy Forward, Microsoft

Thomas R. Burke

Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Jon Hart

Consultant, Journalism, Knight Foundation

Marisa Kwiatkowski

Director of Journalism, Knight Foundation

Selina MacLaren

Associate principal counsel, ABC News

Heather E. Murray

Managing attorney, First Amendment Clinic’s Local Journalism Project, Cornell Law School

Maye Primera

Advisory Committee

Sima Sarrafan

Assistant general counsel, Microsoft

Evan Smith

Senior adviser, The Texas Tribune and Emerson Collective

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