Alison Campbell, Senior Technical Advisor at Internews, has more than 20 years of experience in the media development sector, working with local media outlets in humanitarian and health emergencies, democratic transitions, and conflict and post conflict scenarios. Alison established Internews’ long-running work in Rwanda with a project she created at the Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal in 1999. In 2001, she founded Internews’ Burma project that ran for over a decade and included trainings inside Burma as well as the operation of the Internews Burma Journalism School that trained over 1,000 journalists in exile. After serving three years as Africa Regional Director, she moved to Washington, DC as Director of Humanitarian Programming and later led Internews’ global COVID response, before returning to Asia to support the Internews Myanmar team after the 2021 coup. Before joining Internews, Alison worked in radio and TV newsrooms in South Africa and in the UK, and as CARE Emergency Unit Press Officer for humanitarian responses in Rwanda, DR Congo, Burundi, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Bosnia.
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
