Board Bios:

Julie Bykowicz
julie.bykowicz@baltsun.com

Bykowicz has been a crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. She now writes narrative and investigative enterprise crime
stories, with a focus on juvenile and gang issues. Before that, she spent three years as the city courts reporter. In earlier years at The
Sun, she covered three suburban police departments. In 2007, she won the Baltimore City Paper's "best print journalist" award and that same year
was a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors' police reporting award. Bykowicz attended the University of Missouri, where she
wrote and edited for the campus newspaper. She also completed several college newspaper projects on crime and poverty. She graduated in 2001
with a Bachelor's of Journalism and a minor in sociology.

Alicia Caldwell
acaldwell@ap.org

In 2005, Alicia Caldwell began reporting for the Associated Press, based in El Paso, Tx., covering crime along the U.S./Mexico border, immigration, the U.S. Army, and other news in West Texas. She started her career on the crime beat as a two-year intern with the Philadelphia Inquirer and has also covered crime for the Arizona Republic and the Orlando Sentinel. She is a 1998 graduate of the University of Arizona and earned a master's degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University in May 2000. Caldwell was the second place finalist in the Houston Press Club's print journalist of the year competition for 2006.

Mark Curriden
mcurriden@velaw.com

Educated as a lawyer, Curriden was the legal affairs writer for The Dallas Morning News from 1996 to 2002. In June 2002, he joined Vinson & Elkins, a Texas law firm that represents The Dallas Morning News, CBS News and specializes in First Amendment litigation. He works as a lawyer-media strategist at the firm. From 1988 through 1994, Curriden was the legal writer for the Atlanta Constitution. He has been a contributing writer for the American Bar Association Journal since 1988. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award and the American Judiciature Society's Toni House Award. In November 1999, Farrar Straus & Giroux published his book "Contempt of Court: A Turn of t he Century Lynching that Launched 100 years of Federalism."

Mark Fazlollah
mfazlollah@phillynews.com

Fazlollah has been a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1987. He has worked with several projects that have won national awards, including a 1999 series on the underreporting of rape (Selden Ring Award) and a 1998 series on the underreporting of crime in Philadelphia (Roy Howard Award), as well as the George Polk Award and the National Association of Black Journalists' award for investigative reporting. Before joing the Inquirer, he was a reporter in Mexico for United Press International and a Latin America correspondent for the Daily Telegraph of London.

Ted Gest
cjj@reporters.net

Gest covered the White House, Justice Department, Supreme Court and legal/justice news during a 23-year career at U.S. News & World Report. A native of St. Louis, Gest began his career there at the Post-Dispatch. A co-founder of CJJ, he has been cited by the National Council on Crime and Delinqency, and he won an ABA Silver Gavel Award. Gest's book on criminal justice policy, "Crime and Politics," was published in the summer of 2001 by Oxford University Press.

David Krajicek
dkrajicek@aol.com

A native Nebraskan, Krajicek was a crime reporter at newspapers in Omaha and Iowa and was police bureau chief of the New York Daily News. A former Columbia University journalism professor, he now works as a writer based in the Catskill Mountains. He writes "The Justice Story" for the Daily News and contributes to other publications. He is the author of a nonfiction book, "Scooped! Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze and Celebrities" (Columbia University Press). Publication of his first novel, "Poovey's Grove," is pending. Krajicek is co-founder of CJJ.

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William K. Rashbaum
rashbaum@nytimes.com

Rashbaum has covered the New York Police Department and crime in New York, writing about a range of state and federal agencies, for The New York Times since 1999, serving until recently as the newspaper's police bureau chief. Before that, he covered crime and criminal justice issues for the New York Daily News, where he wrote longer, investigative stories, New York Newsday, where he also served as police bureau chief, Reuters, UPI, and the Hearst Newspapers.

Ruben Rosario
rrosario@pioneerpress.com

Born in Puerto Rico, Rosario is a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, who writes primarily about criminal justice and public safety issues. Since joining the paper in 1991, he has worked as day city editor, special assignment writer and team leader for public safety. Rosario directs Knight Ridder's newsroom internship program and assists in recruiting. A graduate of Fordham Unversity, he has won many awards for his work at the Pioneer Press and the New York Daily News, where he spent more than a decade covering law enforcement and the courts.

Kevin Vaughan

vaughank@rockymountainnews.com

Vaughan stumbled into the newspaper business after taking a journalism class in high school. He was editor of his high school and college newspapers, spent a summer as a reporter at the Las Vegas (N.M.) Daily Optic, and graduated from Metropolitan State College with a degree in journalism. He has spent more than 20 years as a reporter in Colorado, first with the Fort Morgan Times and then the Fort Collins Coloradoan before coming to the Rocky Mountain News in 1997. He has written about everything from the Columbine tragedy to the World Series and from Colorado's wildfires to the Olympics. In 2007, the Rocky published his 34-part serial narrative “The Crossing” - the longest story in the paper’s history. The serial, which recounted a 1961 bus crash that killed 20 children, was a finalist in the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes.

Deb Halpern Wenger
deb@mrwenger.org

Wenger has worked in local television news for 17 years, most recently as assistant news director at WFLA-TV in Tampa. There, she helped launch a web-based interactive crime map and data base that allows users to search crime reports by address and zip code. As executive producer at WSOC-TV, in Charlotte, N.C., she supervised the Carolina Crime Solutions project, a civic-journalism effort to cover potential solutions to local crime problems. In 2002, Wenger joined Virginia Commonwealth University as Associate Professor for Media Convergence and New Media. She also serves as a newscast consultant for Media General Broadcast Group.

Nanci Wilson
nanciwilson@austin.rr.com

Wilson is an investigative reporter for KEYE-TV, a CBS affiliate in Austin, Tx. Previously, she was a consultant to CBS New Media, where she conducted studies regarding Internet usage within CBS affiliate stations. She also assisted on developing programs to expand and enhance local coverage via the Internet, as well as creating new revenue streams. Wilson has taught courses on computer-assisted reporting and using the Internet on deadline. She is the author of The Disaster Plan, a comprehensive guide for news coverage during disaster or crisis.