As a correspondent, she visited Ukraine and Spain. In March 2017, she became a reporter for Belsat TV in Minsk. Her work has been published in the newspaper “Narodnaya Volya” and the Russian Novaya Gazeta.
She collaborated with RFE/RL and the Ukrainian project “Donbas. Since then, Katsyaryna has devoted herself entirely to journalism. In 2013 she enrolled in a volunteer program of the European Commission to Spain, where she spent two years. After Katsya graduated from gymnasium №23 in Minsk, she entered the Spanish faculty of Minsk State Linguistic University. Katsyaryna Andreyeva (Bakhvalava) was born in 1993 into a family of several generations of Minsk intellectuals. Before joining the IWMF as Director of Programs, Elisa lead the Crimes of War Education Project and before that monitored the human rights of scientists for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as an election monitor for the OSCE in the Balkans. Elisa has been a human rights activist since graduating from the University of Maryland with an MA degree in International Relations. She is charged with growing the IWMF by expanding its programs into new geographies introducing new initiatives such as Hostile Environments and First Aid Training (HEFAT) partnering with other organizations and driving communications and outreach to our core constituents. She enhances the IWMF’s brand, and delivers the annual Courage in Journalism and Lifetime Achievement Awards and the Courage in Photojournalism Award. Elisa leads the organization to achieve its mission to support women journalists to develop their careers by providing training, tools and assistance so that they can work as safely as possible. As rural Dalit women, the paper’s staff are pathbreakers across gender and caste, navigating myriad challenges and prejudices that have intensified through the years.Įlisa Lees Muñoz is the IWMF’s Executive Director. After almost 20 years of this work, Khabar Lahariya’s reporters are still the outliers, even as more and more young women step into the field.
It has broken barriers to establish women as journalists in small towns and villages where newsmakers have long been men, upper caste, and well-connected to the political system.
With a hyper-local focus, Khabar Lahariya operates under the premise that “news in a last-mile village is news, deserving of the same attention as what happens in a city or town.” The newspaper seeks to brings a feminist voice to local media, interrogating and disrupting the status quo to uplift those traditionally marginalized in the media landscape. Founded in 2002, Khabar Lahariya is an Indian newspaper led by a team of all-women Dalit reporters and editors, producing independent news in Uttar Predesh and Madhya Pradesh.
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