Bill Buzenberg became Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity in January 2007. The Center is an investigative news organization based in Washington, D.C. with a 20-year track record and some 37 first place national journalism awards. Buzenberg was Vice President of News for National Public Radio, as well as an NPR foreign affairs correspondent and London bureau chief from 1978-1997. He was responsible for launching Talk of the Nation, as well as the expansion of All Things Considered and the extension of NPR’s newscasts services to 24 hours a day. During his tenure, the NPR News Division was honored with 9 DuPont-Columbia University batons and 10 Peabody Awards. He was also Senior Vice President of News at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio from 1998-2006 where he won his second DuPont-Columbia gold baton. Buzenberg launched American RadioWorks, public radio’s major documentary and investigative journalism unit, and Speaking of Faith, public radio’s signature program on religion. He also began Public Insight Journalism, an innovative use of technology to draw knowledge from the audience. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Buzenberg has been recognized for his work numerous times, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award, public radio’s highest honor. 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 been awarded fellowships for his studies at the University of Michigan, the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. More about Bill Buzenberg

Paul is a graduate journalism student at American University. He comes to D.C. from Detroit, where he reported on education and state budget crises for Labor Notes magazine. His story on President Obama's charter school policy won a 2010 Project Censored award. He wrote and co-produced a documentary about Detroit's Brewster-Douglass projects, which premiered in April 2012. See his work at www.paulabowd.net. More about Paul Abowd

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Randy has more than 20  years of experience as a journalist and editor. He comes most recently from National Journal, where he was managing editor for the award-winning political magazine’s lobbying and law coverage. Earlier in his career, Randy wrote about the Internet   for Ziff Davis Media and numerous business magazines. In his voluminous spare time, Randy is president of the DC Bluegrass Union, a non-profit dedicated to promoting bluegrass music in the greater Washington area. More about Randy Barrett

Michael Beckel joined the Center for Public Integrity as a politics reporter in February 2012, where his focus is super PACs and the influence of money on elections. He previously worked for three years as the money-in-politics reporter for the Center for Responsive Politics. There, Beckel's exploits took him inside the U.S. Supreme Court multiple times, including the oral arguments of the landmark campaign finance case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Earlier, he completed a yearlong editorial fellowship with Mother Jones magazine, wrote for two alternative newsweeklies in Colorado and performed legislative research at Project Vote Smart. Beckel is a 2005 graduate of Colorado College. More about Michael Beckel

With 35 years of administrative experience, calm demeanor and excellent judgment, Betts is an integral part of iWatch's operations. Her previous role at the Management Assistance Group included overseeing MAG's day-to-day financial operations, managing payroll and accounts payable, maintaining consulting files and liasing with clients. In addition to her work, she is a leader in her community. Betts is a Trustee of the Board of East Friendship Baptist Church, where she directs a scholarship program that since its inception in 1978, has assisted approximately 40 students financially through college. She also volunteers with the North Michigan Park Civic Association. More about Dorothy Betts

Ash Blankenship supports the Center’s development work, primarily in foundations and administration. Prior to joining the Center, Ash was a merchandising representative with Sika Corporation, where he was responsible for managing a regional sales account. Prior to his work at Sika, Ash was a team leader with Xerox, managing client relations and business development. Ash earned a B.A. in political science from SUNY Empire State College and is currently pursuing an M.P.A. from Penn State. More about Ash Blankenship

Originally from Central Wisconsin, Dan Brodjieski worked for a local Gannett owned newspaper, the Wausau Daily Herald.  He moved to the Washington D.C. area in 2001 to take a position at The Washington Times.  Moving up from a Systems Administrator to heading the Publishing Systems Division of the IT department in 2004. After nearly 10 years at the Times, Dan joined the Center in October 2010. More about Dan Brodjieski

Mina Devadas joined the Center for Public Integrity in March 2011. She has served as a non-profit executive and development officer for a range of academic, health, and human services organizations, including The New School, the State University of New York, the Children’s Defense Fund, and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation. A Washington, D.C. native, she received her bachelor’s in fine art at Maryland Institute College of Art. More about Mina Devadas

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. More about David Donald

John has returned to a full-time position at the Center and covers financial and money in politics issues. For the past two years, he was director of the "Connected" project at the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, investigating the political influence of the telecommunications and media industries. Prior to the Workshop, he reported on media and technology issues and the financial meltdown for the Washington bureau of the Associated Press. For seven years, he was at the Center where he created the Well Connected project, an investigation of the political ties of the media and broadband industries. Between jobs with AP and the workshop, he led the Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown investigation into the subprime lending industry for the Center. Prior to his work with the Center, Dunbar was chief investigative reporter with the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida in Tampa where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications. More about John Dunbar

Alexandra Duszak is the University of Delaware's 15th James R. Soles Fellow at the Center. She graduated in May 2011 with an Honors degree in international relations and minors in journalism and economics. She worked at The Review, the university's award-winning student newspaper, for three years, and served as the executive editor from 2010-2011. She has been the recipient of multiple awards from the Delaware Press Association. Duszak has interned at Delaware Today magazine, DC magazine and The News Journal. More about Alexandra Duszak

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. More about Joe Eaton

Susan Ferriss is a reporter with wide experience at home and abroad. She has investigated a range of issues, from military toxic waste and real-estate fraud to police corruption and international drug trafficking. She covered California state government and politics for several years, and was a prize-winning foreign correspondent in Latin America, where her reports included stories on child labor, child migration and transnational gangs. More about Susan Ferriss

Najia Gainous joined the Center as the Human Resources Manager in January 2010. She has a rich background in human resources both in the national and international sectors. She has worked for several organizations in the Washington, D.C., area including Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, Creative Associates International, and Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA).  Before coming to the Washington, D.C., area, Gainous worked as a member of the Budget and Finance staff for both the U.S. Peace Corps and the American Embassy in Rabat, Morocco. More about Najia Gainous

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. More about Caitlin Ginley

Cole Goins joined iWatch News in March 2009 as Deputy 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 writer and blogger, with work published in the Washington City Paper and Dusted magazine. More about Cole Goins

Greene joined the Center in January 2011 after serving as investigations and government editor for The Miami Herald. At The Center, he has led investigations into contracts and connections at the Department of Energy, and was part of the reporting team for Poisoned Places, a national project exposing clean air act hazards. His Center investigations have been honored by the Harvard University Goldsmith Prize, Columbia University John B. Oakes Awards and Sigma Delta Chi. At The Herald, Greene was lead editor for Neglected To Death, an investigation exposing unpunished deaths in Florida group homes, honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Public Service. He was also part of four Herald reporting teams awarded the Pulitzer Prize (twice) or named finalists (twice), and spent nine years on the paper’s investigative staff, exposing slave-like conditions in Florida’s farm fields, investigating deadly air cargo plane crashes and uncovering corruption. A journalism graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, Greene taught graduate journalism at the University of Miami and is pursuing a Masters in Nonfiction Writing at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard’s Fight To Save Her Town. More about Ronnie Greene

Chris Hamby’s reporting on the environment and workplace safety has been recognized with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, two Sigma Delta Chi awards and the Upton Sinclair Memorial Award.  He has also been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting and the IRE Award.  His work includes computer-assisted reporting, and he previously worked at the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting’s database library. He has a master’s degree in journalism with a concentration in investigative reporting from the University of Missouri and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Richmond. In 2010, he completed a yearlong re-examination of a controversial murder case, supported in part by an investigative reporting fellowship. His writing about policy, politics, the criminal justice system and public health has appeared online and in newspapers and magazines. More about Chris Hamby

Heath comes from The Seattle Times, where he was three times a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He co-authored an investigation of conflicts of interest surrounding clinical cancer research at a Seattle hospital. The series won the Harvard University’s Goldsmith prize for investigative reporting, the George Polk award for medical reporting, the Gerald Loeb award, the Scripps Howard Foundation’s public service award, the Associated Press Managing Editors’ public service award and the Newspaper Guild’s Heywood Broun award. Heath’s recent expose on congressional earmarks was recognized by the National Press Foundation with the Everett Dirksen award for best coverage of Congress. He is a graduate of Grinnell College and was a 2006 Harvard Nieman Fellow. More about David Heath

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. Heller is a board member of Street Sense, a news source that reports on poverty, social justice, and homelessness in Washington, D.C. More about Robin Heller

Michael Hudson covers business and finance for the Center. His two decades of work on mortgage and banking fraud has prompted media critics to call him the reporter "who beat the world on subprime abuses" and the "guru of all things predatory lending." He previously worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and as an investigator for the Center for Responsible Lending. Hudson has also written for Forbes, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Mother Jones. His work has won many honors, including a George Polk Award for magazine reporting, a John Hancock Award for business journalism and accolades from the National Press Club, the White House Correspondents’ Association, the American Bar Association and the New York State Society of CPAs. He edited the award-winning book Merchants of Misery and appeared in the documentary film Maxed Out. His latest book, THE MONSTER: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis, was named 2010 Book of the Year by Baltimore City Paper and called "essential reading for anyone concerned with the mortgage crisis" by Library Journal. His recent series of stories for the Center, "The Great Mortgage Cover-Up," has been selected to appear in Columbia University Press's Best Business Writing, 2012. More about Michael Hudson

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. More about Caroline Jarboe

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. More about Erik Lincoln

Rachael joined the Center in September 2011 as an American University Fellow. She is currently working towards her Master’s degree in journalism at American University. A graduate of Reed College in Portland, Ore., Rachael majored in political science with a focus on international relations. Before joining the center, she interned for the Portland Mercury, an alternative newsweekly, and freelanced for several local newspapers and magazines in Laguna Beach, Calif. and Portland, Ore. More about Rachael Marcus

Aaron Mehta has been with iWatch News for over three years, starting as an intern in the summer of 2008. He primarily covers Money and Politics and National Security, but has also done stories touching on finance and the environment. A Boston area native, Mehta graduated from Tufts University in 2007. His stories have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, POLITICO, ABC News and other publications. He is currently a Paul Miller Reporting Fellow.  More about Aaron Mehta

Montgomery joined the organization in October 2011. Over the last dozen years she has built a track record of guiding the digital transformation of some of the country'’s most popular news, entertainment and lifestyle brands through leadership positions at PBS.org, USAToday.com, and The St. Petersburg Times. Christine is past-President and a current Board of Director for the Online News Association, the largest organization of digital journalists in the world. She holds a journalism degree from the University of Florida, and an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University. More about Christine Montgomery

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 directed a global investigation of the asbestos industry that won the first-place John B. Oakes award for environmental reporting from Columbia University in 2011 and an IRE Medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. 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. More about Jim Morris

Following a 20-year career as a corporate public relations executive, Potter left his position as head of communications for CIGNA, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, to show the world the dark inner workings of the insurance industry. He has testified before Senate and House committees, briefed several members of Congress and their staffs, appeared with lawmakers at several press conferences, spoken at more than 100 public forums, and has been the subject of numerous articles in the U.S. and foreign media. His new book is called Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans. More about Wendell Potter

Schulte is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, most recently in 2007 for a series on Baltimore’s arcane ground rent system. Schulte’s other Pulitzer-nominated projects exposed excessive heart surgery death rates in veterans’ hospitals, substandard care by health insurance plans treating low-income people and the hidden dangers of cosmetic surgery in medical offices. He spent much of his career at the Baltimore Sun and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Schulte has received the George Polk Award, two Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, three Gerald Loeb Awards for business writing and two Worth Bingham Prizes for investigative reporting. The University of Virginia graduate is also the author of Fleeced!, an exposé of telemarketing scams. More about Fred Schulte

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. More about Peter Newbatt Smith

Smith worked for 25 years in a series of key reporting and editorial roles at The Washington Post, including national investigative editor, national security correspondent, national investigative correspondent, and a foreign staff bureau chief based in Rome. In 2006, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, along with two colleagues at the Post, for articles on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Smith was also a finalist with other Post reporters for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting in 1999 (from Kosovo), and a finalist with others for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting in 2005 (about Abu Ghraib and military prisoner abuse). In his first ten years at the Post, Smith wrote about defense, intelligence and foreign policy matters, including policymaking at the State Department, Pentagon, and White House. He also focused on conflict and terrorism in the Middle East; politics and military affairs in Asia; and arms proliferation. Prior to that, he was a senior writer for the News and Comment section of Science Magazine where he won a National Magazine Award in 1986 for writing about arms control. More about R. Jeffrey Smith

Weiss oversees the Center’s domestic investigations and editorial staff. She was formerly senior vice president of news at NPR. There Weiss managed 36 bureaus, more than 400 U.S. and international staffers and a $75 million budget. Under Weiss’ leadership, the audience for NPR.org grew from four million unique monthly visitors in 2006 to 12 million in 2010. During that timeframe she also oversaw a 10 percent growth in audience for NPR’s news programs to more than 27 million weekly listeners. During her time leading NPR news, it won a multitude of prestigious awards, including Peabody Awards, Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, Robert F. Kennedy Awards, George Polk Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, and Overseas Press Club Awards among others. More about Ellen Weiss

Sarah Whitmire first joined the Center in Summer 2010 as a web intern, and returned in August 2011 as a web producer. She graduated magna cum laude from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in digital journalism, a master’s degree in mass communication, and a minor in sociology. During her graduate capstone, she produced projects dealing with controversial Arizona topics such as immigration and medical marijuana. She has also completed internships with Newser, Draft Magazine, and Phoenix Magazine. More about Sarah Whitmire

Jesse Ajani Winston joined the Center in August 2011. He graduated from Morgan State University in 2002, and also studied graduate graphic design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has worked as a designer for Energy Star, the U.S. Department of State, Batesneimand, and MSHC Partners. More about Ajani Winston

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. More about Gordon Witkin

Joe brings fourteen years non-profit financial management at larger organizations to his work at the Center for Public Integrity. For nine years, he was COO/CFO at Public Citizen, where he supervised finance, audit, information services, facilities and personnel. He then moved to Defenders of Wildlife where he served as SVP of Finance and Administration/CFO for five years, managing finance, investment, human resources, facilities, and information technology. He holds an MA from the State University of New York at Albany, an MBA from the University of Maryland School of Business and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center. More about Joseph Zillo

Gerard Ryle leads the ICIJ’s headquarters staff in Washington, D.C., as well as overseeing the consortium’s 100 member journalists in more than 50 countries. Before joining as the ICIJ’s first non-American director in September 2011, Ryle spent 26 years working as a reporter, investigative reporter and editor in Australia and Ireland, including two decades at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. He uncovered some of the biggest stories in Australian journalism, winning that country’s highest journalism award four times. He is a former deputy editor of The Canberra Times and a former Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He is the author of a critically acclaimed book based on one of his former investigations and has contributed to two other books on journalism, published in the U.S. and Australia. More about Gerard Ryle

Marina Walker Guevara is ICIJ’s deputy director. A native of Argentina, she has reported from a half-dozen countries and her investigations have won and shared more than 12 national and international awards. Over a ten-year career, she has written about environmental degradation in Latin America by multinational corporations; shadowy U.S. government HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Africa, and the cigarette mafia in the Tri-Border Area of South America, among other topics. 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. More about Marina Walker Guevara

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. More about Kate Willson