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.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
