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SYMPOSIUM
HARLO HOLMES is a digital security trainer. She
helps journalists in various media organizations
become confident and effective in securing their
communications within their newsrooms, with
their sources, and with the public at large. She is a
media scholar, software programmer, and activist;
and contributes regularly to the open source mobile
security collective, The Guardian Project.
KATHY IM oversees investments in the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s journalism
program. On sabbatical from the foundation,
she explored the intersection of interactive
documentaries and digital journalism at MIT. Prior
to joining the foundation, Im worked at the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development and
the Bank of America Foundation.

WILL JENKINS has, for nearly a decade, worked
in communications and policy at the White House,
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
and both houses of Congress. Over the years, he
has worked with dozens of filmmakers to help them
understand and engage the policymaking process.
He also wrote a guide to politics for filmmakers for
Documentary magazine.

KIRSTEN JOHNSON is a cinematographer
and director whose camerawork appeared in
Citizenfour, which won the Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars. Johnson
teaches “Visual Thinking” at the Graduate Journalism
Department at NYU and cinematography in the
Masters in Film program at the School of Visual Arts.

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