Katie is a British freelance journalist, specializing in human rights and the environment, and assistant editor at award-winning quarterly magazine, Index on Censorship. She was co-editor of a special Lush Times magazine championing social and environmental regeneration, and co-founded the Lush Times online platform. She has travelled the world to report on issues such as vegan activism in Toronto, regenerative farming in India, and the destruction of Sacred Natural Sites in Kenya. She also reported on the UK’s controversial undercover policing scandal.
She has a Journalism Master’s degree from Bournemouth University, and has been a finalist for the New Media Writing Prize and the Fresher’s Writing Prize. Katie lives on the south coast of England.
Follow her on Twitter at @katie_dancey.
Nina Jankowicz is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington, DC, where she studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Eastern Europe and beyond. She is the author of How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict. Follow her on Twitter @wiczipedia.
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. In her research she focuses on Black experience, race, ethnicity, and nationality policy in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet space. Her writing has been published by Foreign Policy, the Kennan Institute’s Russia File, The Moscow Times, and Contingent Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @ksvarnon.
Tessa Fox is a freelance journalist, photographer and filmmaker who focuses on war & conflict, humanitarian affairs, and human rights in the Middle East. Originally from Australia, Tessa is currently based in Istanbul, where she reports on Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Her work has been published by Foreign Policy, The Guardian, BBC and Al Jazeera. Follow her on Twitter @Tessa_Fox.
Rachel Pafe is a writer and researcher based in Berlin interested in postwar Jewish thought, interdisciplinary theories of mourning, and feminist approaches to reading together.
