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Executive Director
Bill Buzenberg became executive director of the Center in December 2006. Most recently, as senior vice president of news at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio, Buzenberg launched such programming initiatives as American RadioWorks and Speaking of Faith. Buzenberg was vice president of news and information at National Public Radio from 1990 to 1997. Buzenberg joined NPR in 1978 as the first reporter to help start Morning Edition. For 11 years, he was a foreign affairs correspondent based mostly in Washington, D.C. He was named London bureau chief in 1986 and became NPR’s first managing editor in 1989. He began his journalism career in newspapers, serving as city editor of the Colorado Springs Sun in the early 70s. He was co-editor of the memoirs of the late CBS News president Richard Salant: Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism. A graduate of Kansas State University, Buzenberg has also studied at the University of Michigan as part of its mid-career professional journalism fellowship program, in the master’s program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy, and as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Buzenberg has appeared on many national media outlets including: C-SPAN, ABC World News, CNN, NPR, and XM Radio. His commentary has also been featured in The New York Times, Associated Press, Democracy Now!, The Washington Post, St. Louis-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Politico, National Journal, The Hill, TheStreet.com, and U.S. News & World Report among others.

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Humphrey Fellow
Ana Avila is a Mexican journalist, and currently a Humphrey fellow in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. The fellowship is part of the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright exchange program. Ana has a master’s degree in sociology and is a senior analyst for a Mexican NGO focused on media, violence, and human rights. She worked at the NBC News Latin-American bureau. She has written long-form investigative articles on corruption inside the political parties and on how presidential candidates avoided the electoral law to increase their financing. During the last year she was an investigative journalist covering paramilitary groups and violence.

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Media Relations Manager
Steve Carpinelli assists the Center’s communications department with media strategy, procedures, and public outreach efforts. Before joining the Center in 2006, he worked in the research and intelligence practice group at Public Strategies, Inc.‘s Washington, D.C., office, focusing on client issues in the telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, health care, and technology sectors. Carpinelli has more than 10 years of experience in Washington public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications issues with policy makers, corporate executives, and all forms of the media. He graduated with honors from American University’s School of International Service with a master’s degree in international communication and policy.

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Board Liaison
Before coming to the Center, Francesca Craig worked in the office of development at The Aspen Institute, a large public policy organization based in Washington and in Aspen, Colorado. Prior to her work at The Aspen Institute, Craig worked at The Cordell Hull Institute, a pro-free-trade think tank, as board coordinator. Craig is a graduate of New York University and attended law school at London University School of Law in Hong Kong.

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Data Editor
David Donald leads the computer-assisted reporting program at the Center. His current interest is in financial, economic, and housing analysis and new tools for data analysis. Prior to joining the Center in 2008, he served as training director at Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting for five years. He conducted more than 150 training events for thousands of journalists in the United States and internationally with a focus on investigative skills and data analysis to uncover fraud and other governmental abuse. Donald also spent 11 years at the Savannah Morning News in Georgia where he was research and projects editor. Among his many stories, he investigated the resegregation of public schools, race relations, and issues surrounding aging population. His work was part of a series of stories winning two James K. Batten Awards and two Hammet Awards for ethical and courageous journalism. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Kent State University and earned a media management fellowship at the Poynter Institute in 1991.

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Staff Writer
Before he joined the Center’s staff in 2008, Joe Eaton was a staff writer at Washington City Paper and a reporter at The Roanoke Times. He has written for Salon.com, USA Today, and The (Baltimore) Sun. Eaton graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in English and earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.

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Soles Fellow
Dan Ettinger, originally from Glastonbury, Connecticut, joined the Center as the 12th James R. Soles Fellow from the University of Delaware. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with honors degrees in international relations and Spanish studies, concentrating in Latin American studies and diplomacy. As an undergraduate, Ettinger studied abroad in Mexico and Argentina, participated in Delaware’s Writing Fellows program, interned for W.L. Gore & Associates, and played men’s club basketball.

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Director of Development and Communications
Bridget Gallagher brings 10 years of experience as a development professional back to the Center, where she previously served as associate director of development. Gallagher has implemented hands-on major gifts cultivation, proposal writing, and prospect research strategies as a staff member and consultant for advocacy, arts, media/journalism, and educational organizations locally and nationally. Her experience encompasses development and management for organizations including the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra in Michigan, The Doe Fund in New York City, and a political party in Anchorage, Alaska, where she served as executive director from 2003-2004. Gallagher hails from Michigan and holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and English from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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Staff Writer
Caitlin Ginley joined the Center in July 2007 as the University of Delaware’s 10th James R. Soles Fellow. She graduated cum laude in May 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in English and political science, concentrating in journalism. She worked for two years on the editorial staff of the university’s award-winning student newspaper, The Review, and was an intern for Delaware Today magazine and Court TV.

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Deputy Web Editor: Social Media
Cole Goins joined the Center in March 2009 as assistant web editor. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism and mass communications, and has since pursued interests in the intersection of journalism and new media. A former music director at WXYC 89.3FM in Chapel Hill, Goins has also been an active freelance writer, with work published in the Washington City Paper and Dusted magazine.

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Web Editor
Andrew Green joined the Center in July 2008 as web editor. Green graduated from Northwestern University in 2004 with a degree in journalism and a double major in political science. Following graduation he spent a year in Zambia on a Fulbright Grant, studying the development of the country’s independent media. Most recently he served as a fellow at The American Prospect. He has written for In These Times, Global Journalist, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, among other publications.

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Director of Foundations
Robin Heller has served as a non-profit executive and development officer for a range of academic and human service organizations, including Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Center for Bioethics at University of Pennsylvania, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and Children’s Defense Fund. She received her bachelor’s in comparative literature at Northwestern University and her master’s in social work from Columbia University.

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Project Coordinator
Josh Israel joined the Center in 2006. Previously, he spent four years working as director of research on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist/historian Nick Kotz’s acclaimed book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America, and six months as an aide to a Virginia state legislator. Israel is a 1999 magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University and was a 2004 Political Leadership Program Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.

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Development Associate
Caroline Jarboe came to the Center in 2007 after eight years at National Public Radio, where she most recently served as senior development associate, and a year as development manager for the Self Reliance Foundation/Hispanic Communications Network. At NPR, Jarboe worked with the nation’s major private foundations, and she was a central development staff member in charge of writing about NPR’s news coverage plans. She graduated from Tulane University with a bachelor’s degree in American studies and received a master’s degree from the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. Under her maiden name Caroline Langston, Jarboe is a widely published writer and essayist, a winner of the Puschart Prize, and a commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered.

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American University Fellow
Claritza Jiménez joined the Center in August 2009 as an American University fellow. As part of the fellowship, Jiménez is also completing a master’s degree in broadcast journalism with focus in public policy. Prior to coming to the Center, Jiménez worked for three years as a news producer at the CBS station in Dallas/Fort Worth. Jiménez began her career in television news with the CBS Television Stations News Apprenticeship Program. She completed her apprenticeship at the CBS station in Chicago where she worked in the station’s investigative unit. Jiménez graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Communication from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

David E. Kaplan
Editorial Director
David E. Kaplan was named editorial director in September 2008. In addition to overseeing the Center’s editorial work, he serves as director of its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. An ICIJ member since 1999, Kaplan has reported from more than two dozen countries. Over a 30-year career, he has investigated organized crime, terrorist groups, corporate polluters, corrupt cops, neo-Nazis, the banking industry, and the intelligence community. Kaplan worked previously as chief investigative correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and as one of two senior editors at the San Francisco-based Center for Investigative Reporting. He is a former Fulbright scholar in Japan, and his books include YAKUZA, widely considered the standard reference on the Japanese mafia; and Fires of the Dragon, on the murder of journalist Henry Liu. Kaplan’s stories have won or shared more than 15 awards, including honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors, the American Bar Association, Overseas Press Club, and World Affairs Council.

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Information Technology Manager and Web Developer
Tuan Le came to the Center in 2007 and has worked in a variety of environments, ranging from high-energy startups to blue-chip corporations to nonprofit organizations. Some of the responsibilities and roles he has held include project manager, team leader, and web developer. His background is as varied as his experience, but he specializes in web technologies that include ASP.NET, SQL, AJAX, and CSS.

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Staff Writer
Matthew Lewis joined the Center in July 2008 after working at The Fund For Independence in Journalism, assisting Charles Lewis on a forthcoming book. He also worked on Iraq: The War Card in partnership with the Center. Lewis earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At Wisconsin, he founded and edited an online magazine connecting college sportswriters, The Heptagon. He was an intern for the Wisconsin State Journal and Rotowire and wrote for scout.com, the Badger Herald, the Vanderbilt Hustler, and Vanderbilt Sports Weekly.

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Deputy Web Editor: Multimedia
Erik Lincoln, originally from western Colorado, joined the Center in July 2009. He graduated from Mesa State College in 2007 with a degree in mass communications and a minor in political science. He worked for two years as the front-page designer and a copy editor at The (Grand Junction, Colorado) Daily Sentinel. He was an intern at USAToday.com and has written for The Associated Press.

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Staff Writer
Kristen Lombardi joined the Center’s staff in November 2007. She has worked as a journalist for more than 12 years, mainly at alternative newsweeklies. Most recently, she was a staff writer and investigative reporter at The Village Voice, where she provided groundbreaking coverage of the 9/11 health crisis. Her work has explored such social issues as the family courts, criminal justice, and child abuse. Lombardi’s investigative reports as a staff writer for The Phoenix were widely credited with helping to expose the clergy sexual-abuse scandal in Boston and were recognized by the Columbia Journalism Review and other publications. Her investigative reporting has been honored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, the New England Press Association, and The Livingston Awards, and she was awarded a fellowship from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma for her coverage of abuse, public health, and mental illness. Lombardi graduated with high honors from the University of California at Berkeley and has a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University.

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Chief Operating Officer
Ellen McPeake returned to the Center in November 2007 as its chief operating officer. She has spent most of her life in the nonprofit sector, working for such groups as the Center for Law and Social Policy, the Mental Health Law Project, Public Citizen, and most recently Greenpeace, as its chief operating officer. McPeake majored in international management at Georgetown University.

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Staff Writer
Aaron Mehta graduated with honors from Tufts University in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in history and communications. Hailing from the Boston area, he has worked for a national political convention, for the legal watchdog group CREW in Washington, and on several Massachusetts-based campaigns. Most recently, he filled the role of research and policy director for a city council race in Boston. 

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American University Fellow
Naseem Miller is the recipient of the Fellowship in Investigative Journalism from American University’s School of Communication, working with the Center for Public Integrity. She is currently completing her master’s degree in journalism and public policy, with a focus on multimedia production. Her bachelor’s degree is in molecular and microbiology. Miller was a 2008 Kaiser Media Fellow in Health, writing an explanatory series on methods that jails provide medical care to inmates. She has been reporting on health care and medicine for the past five years.

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Staff Writer
Jim Morris has been a journalist since 1978, specializing in coverage of the environment and public health. He has won more than 50 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, the Sigma Delta Chi award, and five Texas Headliners awards. He has worked for newspapers in Texas and California as well as publications such as U.S. News & World Report and Congressional Quarterly in Washington. This is his second stint at the Center.

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Development Associate
Eva Nanavati is a 2007 honors graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology. She is currently working towards her master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University. Prior to joining the Center, Nanavati worked at the League of Women Voters of the United States as the assistant to both the executive director and the development department. During her undergraduate years, Nanavati interned at the American Association of University Women, the Office of the Attorney General of the District of Columbia, as well as volunteering on a campaign in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Project Director
Asra Q. Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter for 15 years, joined the Center in 2008 as co-director of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student investigation into the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter and friend Daniel Pearl. Pearl and his wife, Mariane, were staying at Nomani’s rented home in Karachi, Pakistan, when he was kidnapped in 2002. Nomani launched the Pearl Project at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies in August 2007 as a professor of journalism. She earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from West Virginia University and a master’s degree in international communications from American University’s School of International Service. Nomani is the author of Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam. She is also the author of Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love. She has written on issues related to Islam for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, Sojourners, Slate, Salon, and The American Prospect. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times, Glamour, and People. She is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s Tell Me More program.

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Computer-Assisted-Reporting Specialist
M.B. Pell joined the Center’s staff in December 2007. From 2002 to 2006, as a reporter for the Watertown Daily Times in upstate New York, Pell covered local politics, the Canadian border, and environmental issues related to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. His stories for the newspaper won two Associated Press awards. He then went to the University of Missouri School of Journalism to study computer-assisted reporting; in 2007 he was a Pulliam Fellow at The Arizona Republic.

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ICIJ Membership Coordinator
Simona Raetz, a German native, joined ICIJ as membership coordinator in November 2009. Before joining the Center, she worked at Hedrick Smith Productions, a PBS Frontline affiliate, where she worked in production research and as an associate producer. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a degree in political science. Her senior year she wrote a thesis examining how societal rules and traditional practices facilitate the spread of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, for which she received departmental honors. Raetz was a staff writer for her college newspaper, The Corsair, and interned at a local newspaper in Germany. 

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Office Assistant and Executive Assistant to the Executive Director
Regina Russell studied business management at Roanoke Chowan Community College and George Washington University. She is completing her bachelor’s degree at Trinity College.

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Project Manager, ICIJ
Sandoval Palos was named project manager at ICIJ in February, 2010. Before joining The Center, he was assistant city editor at the Sacramento Bee, where he supervised environment, science, and regional development coverage. He was also the paper’s weekend city editor. At The Bee his team covered stories such as the H1N1 flu outbreak in California, the causes of several incidents of food-borne illness, the daunting task of overhauling the region’s transporation infrastructure, and the impact of climate change—in particular its effect on the critical water supplies from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Before joining The Bee, Sandoval Palos was a Latin America correspondent, based in Mexico City, for the Dallas Morning News and Knight Ridder Newspapers. In Mexico he wrote about drug trafficking and the serial murders of women in Ciudad Juarez. In Venezuela he reported on the rise and fall and rebound of Hugo Chavez and in Colombia he covered failed peace talks between the government and FARC rebels. Sandoval Palos’s career has spanned three decades and includes award-winning coverage of the savings and loan scandal and the deregulation of public utility companies. His list of awards includes the Overseas Press Club and the Inter-American Press Association, for “Lost in Transit,” a probe of profiteering in the international remittance business, and the Gerald Loeb prize for business journalism for “PG&E Unplugged,” a series on how Pacific Gas and Electric, in the mid-1990s, mishandled massive blackouts in Northern California and stumbled on the path toward deregulation. His investigation into the fate of millions of dollars withheld from paychecks of World War II-era Mexican guest workers in the United States fueled a lawsuit that led to a reimbursement by the Mexican government. Sandoval Palos also co-authored the biography “The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement” published in 1997 by Harcourt. He was born in Mexico and raised in San Diego, California. He’s a graduate of Humboldt State University in Northern California. 

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Staff Writer
Prior to joining the Center, Nick Schwellenbach was an investigator at the nonprofit Project On Government Oversight since 2004, where he investigated access to information issues and national-security related corruption and waste. He assisted scores of reporters and congressional investigators in dozens of public interest investigations and has testified before Congress on the need for stronger whistleblower protections in order to improve oversight. Schwellenbach was also a reporter-researcher for the Nieman Watchdog, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, that seeks to improve the quality of American journalism. He also represented POGO on the Steering Committee of Openthegovernment.org, a coalition of news organizations and nonprofits that challenges excessive government secrecy. He received a master’s degree in journalism at American University and earned a bachelor’s in history with a minor in economics from the University of Texas-Austin in 2004.

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Research Editor
Before coming to the Center, Peter Smith was employed as a law clerk at the firm of Gaffney & Schember, P.C., in Washington, D.C. He received his bachelor’s degree in medieval European history from Harvard University and his law degree from American University.

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Deputy Editor
Julie Vorman joined the Center in 2010 after more than 20 years as a correspondent, bureau chief, and editor at Reuters. As the Washington company news editor, she guided Reuters’ coverage of federal multi-billion-dollar bailouts to U.S. banks and automakers after the 2008 financial meltdown, the healthcare industry’s influence as Congress attempted to reform healthcare, and changes within the Securities and Exchange Commission after the Madoff investment fraud scheme. Vorman led the Reuters team that won the “Best in Business Breaking News” award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for 2003 coverage of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, and also was Miami/Caribbean bureau chief, U.S. energy editor, and Houston correspondent during her career at Reuters. She worked for United Press International in Dallas and for McGraw-Hill in Washington after interning at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Vorman did her undergraduate work at the University of Northern Iowa and graduate work in mass communications at the University of Iowa.

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ICIJ Deputy Director
Marina Walker Guevara joined ICIJ in fall 2005. She has written for newspapers and magazines in Argentina and the United States on issues ranging from public health and the environment to courts and human rights. Her investigations have won and shared more than 10 national and international awards. In March 2006 she was awarded the European Commission Lorenzo Natali Prize (Latin America and the Caribbean region) for her reporting about environmental damage caused in Peru by a U.S.-based mining company; that investigation also won her the 2006 Reuters-IUCN Media Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting. She graduated magna cum laude from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, with a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences, and earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

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Staff Writer
Kate Willson joined the Center for Public Integrity in 2007 as an investigative reporting fellow after a career in newspapers during which time she received more than 20 regional and national first-place awards for her investigative, enterprise, and crime reporting. She has reported from Central and South America as well as Southeast Asia. Willson received a bachelor’s in French from Oregon State University and a master’s in international print journalism from American University. Having lived in France and Belgium and worked extensively in Colombia, she is fluent in both French and Spanish.

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Managing Editor
Gordon Witkin joined the Center in September 2008 following a long career at U.S. News & World Report and a shorter stint at Congressional Quarterly. At U.S. News, Witkin served as a regional correspondent in Detroit and as bureau chief in Denver, before coming to Washington in 1987. He covered criminal justice for 11 years, before joining the management ranks as chief of correspondents in 1998. Starting in January 2003, he served four and a half years as the news magazine’s national affairs editor. More recently, Witkin spent a year as social policy editor at Congressional Quarterly, supervising coverage of health care, legal affairs, education, immigration, housing, and labor. He began his career at The Indianapolis Star, and has been a freelance contributor to Planning magazine and Tennis magazine. Witkin’s work has been honored by the American Bar Association and the National Press Club.

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Senior Director of Development
Armando Zumaya has been in fundraising for 22 years.He is proudly serving currently as the senior director of development at the Center for Public Integrity. He has spent much of his fundraising career as a major gift, leadership gifts, and annual fund officer on two more-than-$1-billion campaigns at Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career in 1985 as a canvasser for SANE/FREEZE in Los Angeles and Ithaca, New York, where he led door-to-door canvassers in the field for five years. Most recently he was the vice president of development at the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. Zumaya is well known for his work in teaching prospecting, solicitation, cold calling, major gifts techniques, and remote constituency fundraising. He has been a tireless advocate for improving the Prospect Researcher/Fundraiser relationship and creating a prospecting culture inside development teams. Most notably, he served as the director of development at the San Francisco Opera for more than two years where he directed the refurbishment of their major and planned giving efforts. He was also the director of external relations at the Springboard Schools. At Springboard, he started a new development team in the new area of K-12 major gifts fundraising. He lectures at AFP, APRA, CARA Compass Point and Academic Impressions, AFP International, Blackbaud, and more. He lives in the Northern Virginia and has a 21-year-old daughter and is an alumnus of the University of California, Riverside, and proud graduate of Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles.