Sara Bularzik  
Copy Editor
Sara Bularzik joined the Center in April 2007 and is an editorial assistant for the "Buying of the President 2008" project. She graduated cum laude from American University in May 2007 with a bachelor's degree in print journalism and a minor in international relations. During her time at American University, Sara was a copy editor for the university newspaper and an editor of an online news magazine. She also held internship positions at washingtonpost.com, Reporters Without Borders and WAMU radio.

Bill Buzenberg
Executive Director
Bill Buzenberg became Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity in December 2006. He has been a journalist and news executive at newspapers and in public radio for more than 35 years. Most recently, as Senior Vice President of News at American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio, Buzenberg launched such programming initiatives as 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. Buzenberg was Vice President of News and Information at National Public Radio from 1990 to 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 Batons and 10 Peabody Awards. At both NPR and MPR, he was active in helping raise significant foundation funding to bolster public radio programming. 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. Buzenberg was a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia from 1968 to 1970. He has won numerous awards, 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 was published in 1998 by Westview Press. 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 M.A. 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.

Steve Carpinelli
Media Relations Manager
Steve Carpinelli assists the Center's communications department with media strategy, procedures and public outreach efforts. He previously 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, healthcare and technology sectors. Steve has more than nine 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 his master's in international communication and policy.

Lisa Chiu
American University Fellow
Lisa Chiu received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her master's degree in China studies from the University of Washington, Seattle. She has reported for The Orange County Register, The Arizona Republic, and The Seattle Times, and been a copy editor at China Daily, China's English-language newspaper, and China Central Television International, both in Beijing.

Travis Dunn
Staff Writer
Travis Dunn joined the Center's staff in November 2007 to work on the Land Use Decisions Accountability Project, and he now heads the project's office in Easton, Maryland. Dunn previously was a reporter for The Star Democrat, a daily newspaper in Easton, where he received awards from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association and the Chesapeake Associated Press News Association. He is a graduate of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, which is known for its distinctive "great books" curriculum.

Joe Eaton
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.

Caitlin Ginley
Soles Fellow
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.

Alan Green
Editor of Investigative Projects
Alan Green has more than 25 years' experience as a journalist in Washington, D.C., during which time his positions have ranged from Capitol Hill correspondent for Broadcasting & Cable magazine to staff writer for Washington City Paper. Green has written for dozens of newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post Magazine, the New Republic, and Regardie's, where for a time he served as senior editor. In 1981, Green was the co-founder of a Washington bureau for city and regional magazines, which he operated until 1986. He was subsequently the founding editor of AlterNet, the news service for the nation's alternative weeklies. Green was the 1983 winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting; in 1999, he was awarded book-of-the-year honors by Investigative Reporters and Editors for Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species. Other Center for Public Integrity books he worked on, either as a writer or editor, include The Buying of the Congress, The Cheating of America, and Citizen Muckraking. Green earned a B.A. in sociology from the University of Vermont and an M.A. in journalism and public affairs from American University.

M. Asif Ismail
Editor, The Public i
In addition to editing The Public i, Ismail currently heads the Center's investigation into the pharmaceutical industry. During his five-year stint at the Center, Ismail has reported on a number of issues, including stem cell research, human cloning, the Enron scandal and Pentagon contracts. He was one of the co-authors of The Buying of the President 2004, which detailed the ties between candidates in last year's presidential elections and various interests. He earned a master's degree in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C., a master of philosophy in Middle Eastern studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and a B.A. and M.A. in English literature from the University of Calicut in Kerala, India. Ismail worked for The Times of India in New Delhi and the Khaleej Times in Dubai prior to joining the Center.

Josh Israel
Researcher/Writer
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. Josh is a 1999 graduate of Brandeis University and was a 2004 Political Leadership Program Fellow at the University of Virginia's Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.

Caroline Jarboe
Development Associate
Caroline Jarboe comes to the Center for Public Integrity after eight years at National Public Radio (NPR), 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 was graduated from Tulane University with a B.A. in American Studies and received an MFA 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 is a commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered."

David E. Kaplan  
ICIJ Director 
David E. Kaplan was named ICIJ director in April 2008. Over a 30-year career, he has investigated organized crime, terrorist groups, corporate polluters, corrupt law enforcement officials, neo-Nazis, the banking industry, and the intelligence community. Kaplan worked previously as chief investigative correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, a two-million circulation newsweekly based in Washington, D.C., and as one of two senior editors at the San Francisco-based Center for Investigative Reporting. He has reported from two dozen countries and is a former Fulbright scholar in Japan. Among his books are 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.

Sarah Laskow
Researcher
Sarah Laskow, a researcher for Buying of the President, originally joined the Center in August 2006. She holds a B.A. in literature from Yale University and has worked with Chile Pepper Magazine, the West Africa bureau of The New York Times, and National Public Radio. At Yale, she was a founding editor of The Yale Hippolytic and senior editor of The New Journal, the magazine about Yale and New Haven.

Tuan Le
Web Developer
Tuan Le 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 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Jeremy Lewis
Development Associate
Jeremy Lewis joined the Center in November 2007. He earned a B.A. in business administration from the University of Washington in 2005 and currently is pursuing a M.P.A. with a focus on nonprofit management from George Washington University. Most recently Jeremy worked for a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm assisting in high-dollar fundraising. Prior to that, he was a communications and governmental affairs intern at Amnesty International. Jeremy lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two young sons.

Kristen Lombardi
Staff Writer
Kristen Lombardi joined the Center's staff in November 2007. She has worked as a journalist for 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.

Ellen McPeake
Chief Operating Officer
Ellen McPeake returned to the Center in November 2007 as its chief operating officer. Ellen 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. She majored in international management at Georgetown University.

Jim Morris
Project Manager
Jim Morris is a veteran journalist who specializes in coverage of industries and government agencies. He has won more than 50 journalism awards, including the George Polk award, the National Association of Science Writers award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation award and five Texas Headliners Foundation awards. Before joining the Center for Public Integrity in March 2006, he was a deputy editor at Congressional Quarterly, supervising a team of five homeland security reporters. Prior to that, he worked as an investigative reporter at publications including The Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, The Sacramento Bee and U.S. News and World Report.

Mike Pell
Computer-Assisted-Reporting Specialist
Mike 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.

Regina Russell
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.

Chatchai Sae-Tung
Information Technology Manager
Chatchai Sae-Tung came to the Center in May 2005, bringing more than nine years of information technology experience. He began his career in 1996 as a technical support specialist with Primark Corp. (later Thomson Financial Corp.), working first in Bangkok, Thailand, and later in Hong Kong. In 2000, Chatchai took on the role of Web developer for a start-up Internet consulting firm in Reston, Va. He then worked for four years as a network administrator for software reseller companies in northern Virginia. He earned an undergraduate degree in business administration from Assumption University in Bangkok.

Barbara W. Schecter
Director of Development
Barbara Schecter returns to the Center after serving as a development consultant to the California-based Center for Investigative Reporting and as the Director of Institutional Advancement at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). She has more than 35 years of experience leading fundraising programs for nonprofit organizations. During her previous 10-year tenure as Director of Development at the Center for Public Integrity, the organization's revenues increased six-fold. Before joining the Center, Schecter developed and executed fundraising programs for environmental, cultural, and educational groups and for political organizations and campaigns. She is a graduate of Boston University and holds a Master's degree from The George Washington University.

Dusty Smith
Staff Writer
Dusty Smith, an award-winning reporter, joined the Center's staff in October 2007 to work on the Land Use Decisions Accountability Project. Smith is a 1999 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, where he helped run a news service that distributed coverage of the Virginia General Assembly to publications around the state. He also worked as an intern in the Washington bureau of Fortune magazine. After graduation, Smith covered the boards of supervisors in Fairfax, Fauquier, and Prince William counties for Times Community Newspapers, which publishes nearly 20 community newspapers in the Virginia suburbs of the nation's capital, and he then joined Leesburg Today as its chief Loudoun County government reporter. Smith has won numerous awards for his coverage of business, small-town politics, and a high-profile murder trial.

Peter Newbatt Smith
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 B.A. in medieval European history from Harvard University and his J.D. from American University.

Tom Stites
Consulting Editor
Tom Stites, who joined the Center in January of 2007 to provide developmental editing for investigative projects and books, was for a decade the editor and publisher of UU World, the national magazine of the Unitarian Universalist religion. His long journalism career also includes ranking positions at major newspapers including managing editor of The Kansas City Times; national correspondent, national editor, and associate managing editor for project reporting at The Chicago Tribune, and night national editor of The New York Times. Projects he has directed have won every major journalism award, including the Pulitzer Prize.

Cathy Sweeney  
Director of Finance and Administration
A veteran of more than 20 years in the news magazine business, Cathy Sweeney came to the Center from U.S. News & World Report where she was Manager of Administration. An administrator for more than 15 years of her career, she has extensive experience in many areas of employer/employee relations, ranging from office management, human resources, financial oversight and payroll to security and facilities management. A native of West Hartford, Connecticut, Sweeney graduated with honors from Catholic University with a B.A. in English.

Marina Walker Guevara
ICIJ Deputy Director
Marina Walker Guevara joined ICIJ in the fall of 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.

Kate Willson
American University Fellow
Kate Willson received her bachelor's degree in French from Oregon State University. Following graduation she worked briefly in Colombia and then at community and daily newspapers where she covered courts and focused on enterprise and investigative reporting. Willson is currently pursuing a master's degree in journalism at American University.