Evelyn LEOPOLD, Chair -

Evelyn LEOPOLD

Chair

Independent Media Institute, Bluepass

Evelyn Leopold, an independent journalist reporting from the United Nations, is a contributor to AlterNet, Independent Media, National Memo and the Huffington Post. She was Reuters bureau chief at the U.N. for 17 years. Earlier, at Reuters she was news editor for North America, the editor for the company’s Africa region, based in Nairobi, associate editor worldwide and a correspondent in Germany and Britain as well as in New York and Washington. She was awarded a gold medal for reporting by the UN Correspondents Association. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Newswomen’s Club of New York and the Overseas Press Club.

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