FOTP 2013 Full Report

Oxford, where his work focused on Brazil and the Southern Cone, and a bachelor’s degree inhistory from Columbia University. He served as an Americas analyst for Freedom of the Press.Alex Kendall is a manager at the international consultancy Global Health Strategies (GHS).Prior to joining GHS, she spent two years in Washington, DC, as the global health policy analystfor the Congressional Research Service, where she provided analysis on issues related to globalhealth, gender-based violence, and postconflict and disaster reconstruction efforts for membersof the House and Senate. She has also worked in the field on programs related to women’shealth, HIV/AIDS, sexual violence, human trafficking, and youth education in Haiti, Senegal,Rwanda, South Africa, and Cambodia. She holds a master’s degree in international relationsfrom Yale University. She served as a West Africa and Caribbean analyst for Freedom of thePress.Amy Killian is a master’s candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced InternationalStudies. Previously, she worked with the Liberty Institute of New Delhi, expanding theirEmpowering India initiative to improve transparency in Indian elections. She is a former staffmember of Freedom House and has worked on its Southeast Asia, exchanges, and advocacyprograms. Prior to joining Freedom House, she was a fellow with Kiva Microfunds in Cambodia.She served as a Southeast Asia analyst for Freedom of the Press.Andrew Konove received his PhD in history from Yale University in 2013, with a concentrationin Latin American studies. His research focuses on politics, economics, and the development ofthe public sphere in Latin America. He conducted field research as a Fox Fellow at the Colegiode México in Mexico City from 2009 to 2010, and has studied in Brazil and Spain. His writinghas appeared in the National Interest and the blog Avenida América. Prior to pursuing his PhD,he worked at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC, and Servicios FinancierosAlternativos, a microfinance institution in Oaxaca, Mexico. He served as an Americas analyst forFreedom of the Press.Holiday Dmitri Kumar is a researcher and journalist based in New York City. She previouslyserved as research director for Tony Snow at Fox News and as senior media manager at the CatoInstitute in Washington. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from NorthwesternUniversity’s Medill School of Journalism, a master’s in political sociology from the Universityof Chicago, and a master’s in international affairs from the New School University in New YorkCity. She served as an Asia-Pacific and a Central and Eastern Europe analyst for Freedom of thePress.Astrid Larson is the Language Center administrative director at the French Institute AllianceFrançaise. She holds a master’s degree in international affairs from the New School Universityand a bachelor’s degree from Smith College. She served as a Western Europe analyst forFreedom of the Press.Alexander Lupis is a journalist and human rights researcher. During the 1990s, he worked forthe International Organization for Migration, the Open Society Institute, Human Rights Watch,and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, focusing on human rights issues inthe former Yugoslavia. More recently, he worked as the Europe and Central Asia program6