Carla Bridglal is a Trinidadian journalist with a keen interest in human rights and an advocate for press freedom. As the Associate Business Editor at the Trinidad & Tobago Newsday, she has written extensively on macroeconomic policy, politics, and international relations, including Venezuela’s refugee crisis and China’s expansion into the Caribbean. Her story on a government minister’s alleged sexual misconduct in office was instrumental in having him removed from the Cabinet. Carla earned her MA in Journalism from Columbia University, specializing in business and economic writing. She is an inaugural fellow of the Media Institute of the Caribbean.

Eromo Egbejule of Nigeria is currently West Africa editor of The Africa Report magazine. He also writes features regularly about mostly West and Central Africa, on conflict, politics, culture and human identity with a historical lens for The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Jeune Afrique, The New Humanitarian and others. He has covered among other things, the Boko Haram insurgency in northeastern Nigeria, the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, Ebola epidemic in Liberia, landslides in Sierra Leone, pastoralist crisis across the Sahel, Sino-African investment in Djibouti, as well as sustainability in the Peruvian Amazon. In 2017, he was a visiting lecturer and researcher at Malmö University, Sweden.

Tatira Zwinoira is a Zimbabwean journalist who writes for the newspapers NewsDay (daily) and The Standard (weekly) under one of the country’s largest private media houses, Alpha Media Holdings. He also, on occasion, writes for the media house’s other weekly paper, Zimbabwe Independent. Zwinoira mostly writes hard news, analysis and feature stories on economic, social, business, humanitarian, political and financial stories concerning Zimbabwe and related SADC countries. He also contributes to the African online news agency Panapress and freelances for an American online media website, OZY Media.

Engy Magdy of Egypt is a senior foreign affairs reporter at Al Youm Al Sabaa newspaper. She also writes for Egypt Today, the English version of Youm7, Independent Arabia and The Tablet magazine. Her reporting focuses on the Middle East where she writes about conflict zones (Syria, Yemen, Libya), political issues and development. She worked as a presenter of TV talk show on peace, women and minorities issues. She has master’s degree in media from Cairo University. She has traveled to Germany, Belgium, Japan, Spain, the United States and Russia, including coverage of a NATO summit, Germany’s federal election and the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.