South Asia Project Director

Following the heatwave in Pakistan that killed nearly 700 people, we FEATURE Samina Ahmed, the South Asia Project Director at the International Crisis Group. She oversees the group's work in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nepal. She frequently briefs representatives of foreign ministries and international organizations, and is regularly involved in advocacy efforts internationally. Extensive media experience.

Senior Attorney

To discuss the controversy over Apple's policies regarding royalties to artists featured in their new streaming service, we FEATURE Cheryl Priest Ainsworth, an entertainment and business attorney at Affeld Grivakes Zucker LLP. She practices in the areas of business and commercial, intellectual property, and entertainment disputes in state and federal courts. She has litigated trademarks, copyrights, contracts (business and entertainment), royalties, trade secrets, fraud, defamation, and many other cases. Her media includes the Los Angeles Business Journal, WRUF AM850, Naked Kim (Kim Castle), FlaLaw Online and the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Director

As Google announces it will "honor requests from people to remove nude or sexually explicit images shared without their consent from Google Search results", we FEATURE Soraya Chemaly, Director of the WMC Speech Project and a feminist writer, media critic and activist whose work focuses on women’s rights and the role of gender in politics, religion and popular culture. Most recently, Ms. Chemaly was one of the primary organizers of a successful social media campaign demanding that Facebook recognize misogynistic content as hate speech. Her media includes: Salon, The Huffington Post, RHRealityCheck, Fem2.0, Role Reboot, The Feminist Wire, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, CNN, Al-Jazeera, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, Voice of Russia, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Fem2.0 and Alternet,