Staff Writer for the New Yorker

Mark Danner is a staff writer for the New Yorker and regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and has written extensively on Central America and the development of American foreign policy. Danner is also a professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. In December 1993, the New Yorker devoted its entire issue to Danner's article, "The Truth of El Mozote," which won an Overseas Press Club Award and a Latin American Studies Association award.

Founding Director of Tutela Legal

Maria Julia Hernandez is the founding director of Tutela Legal, the human rights office of the Archbishop of San Salvador. She studied philosophy and law at the Central American University in San Salvador. She worked with Archbishop Oscar Romero during his three years at the Archdiocesan Chancery from 1977-1980.

Photographer

Susan Meiselas has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 1980. Her coverage of insurrection and civil war in Central America was published throughout the world and she was presented with the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1979 for her work in Nicaragua. Later awards include the Leica Award for Excellence (1982), a MacArthur Fellowship (1992), and the Hasselblad Prize (1994). Meiselas received her M.A. in visual education from Harvard University. Her photographs have been published in Time, the New York Times, Life, and Paris Match.

Deputy Director of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman in El Salvador

David Morales is the deputy director of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman in El Salvador, which is responsible for human rights monitoring and advocacy. In the 1990s, Morales was a member of Tutela Legal, the human rights office of the Archbishop of San Salvador and a key participant in the early El Mozote investigations.

Anne Nelson is an author, lecturer, and commentator on international affairs. She has reported on conflicts in Central America and elsewhere for a variety of print and broadcast news media. Her writing on the Philippines won the Livingston Award and the Thomas More Storke Award for international reporting. Nelson served for four years as the director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. From 1995 to 2003, she directed the international program at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Nelson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and PEN, and appears as a regular guest on the PBS international affairs talk show, "The Editors."