Sara Rafsky worked in Mexico City as Researcher on Central America at Amnesty International. Before that she was the Americas Research Associate for the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York, where she reported on press freedom in Latin American and the United States. Previously, she wrote about culture and politics as a freelance journalist in New York, South America and Southeast Asia, interned at the Associated Press in Bogotá, Colombia and was the Editorial Assistant for ARTnews magazine in New York. Sara also lived in Argentina, where she worked with the Ford Foundation and interned with Human Rights Watch and the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE). In 2008, she received a Fulbright Grant to research photojournalism and the Colombian armed conflict. She has a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and is from Brooklyn, New York.
Sara loves all things cinema, journalism and Latin America.
Thesis:
The Print that Binds: Local Journalism, Civic Life and the Public Sphere
