Sr. Coordinator, communications professional with several decades’ experience in city government and TV stations in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Phoenix, AZ.

Journalist focusing on Latin America, formerly the Economist’s Brazil correspondent, articles appearing in the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, and other publications, writing a book on the 1981 massacre in El Mozote, El Salvador and the impact of violence, trauma and impunity.

 Photojournalist and writer focusing on the legacy of armed conflict with major projects on Afghanistan and Guatemala, work appearing regularly in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, 7 Pictures of the Year International awards and 5 NPPA Best of Photojournalism awards, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2023-2024.

President of the International Institute for Social Responsibility and Human Rights (IIRESODH), former member and president of different United Nations human rights bodies and former secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Senior Investigator, Zomia Center and an investigative journalist covering the rise of extremism in Syria and Iraq, the petroleum/defense sectors, and regional finance, with articles in Foreign Affairs, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast, Africa Confidential and other publications.