Corinna Zarek

Corinna heads up the Reporters Committee's freedom of information and open government operations.

She previously held the McCormick-Tribune Legal fellowship, where she worked on prior restraint and

court access issues, and before that served as the Jack Nelson Legal Fellow, concentrating on

freedom of information issues, and was also a Reporters Committee summer intern. Additionally, Corinna

spent a year as an associate for an affordable housing law firm in Washington, D.C. Corinna earned both

her law and bachelor of arts degrees from the University of Iowa and remains a loyal Hawkeye fan. She

teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism and

American University's School of Communication. Before coming to Washington she reported for

The Des Moines Register, wrote for the Iowa Law Review and served as editor of her college

newspaper, The Daily Iowan.