This is the current staff of the Reporters Committee, including permanent staff, law fellows, and interns.

Lucy Dalglish, Executive Director

Prior to assuming the position of Executive Director in January 2000, Dalglish was a media lawyer for almost five years in the trial department of the Minneapolis law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP. From 1980-93, Dalglish was a reporter and editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She was awarded the Wells Memorial Key, the highest honor bestowed by the Society of Professional Journalists, in 1995 for her work as Chairman of SPJ's national Freedom of Information Committee from 1992-95 and for her service as a national board member from 1988-91. She also was named to the inaugural class of the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame in 1996. Dalglish earned a juris doctor degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1995; a master of studies in law degree from Yale Law School in 1988; and a bachelor of arts in journalism from the University of North Dakota in 1980.

Gregg Leslie, Legal Defense Director

Gregg has been a staff attorney with the Reporters Committee since 1994. He worked for a number of years as a Washington magazine writer and research director. He came to the Reporters Committee soon after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center.

Corinna Zarek, Freedom of Information Director

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 American University's School of Communication and 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.

Lois Lloyd, Business Manager

She has worked in the non-profit sector for most of her career, having previously served as Office Manager of the Center for Law and Social Policy. Her interest in journalism was sparked in high school where she served as a reporter on the newspaper staff and editor of the yearbook. She enjoys gardening, interior design, playing the piano and most of all grandparenting!

Maria Gowen, Office Manager

Maria helped organize the Reporters Committee's first permanent office in the mid-1970s. Over the years, she has served as bookkeeper, payroll clerk, accounts payable, accounts receivable, proofreader, subscriptions manager, move coordinator, event planner, fundraiser, interior designer, and even recently, photo editor for the magazine. Her interest in law resulted from working for many years for Washington attorney E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. of Hogan & Hartson -- a position that helped prepare her for her many challenges at the Committee.

Victor Gaberman, Administrative Assistant

Victor has been with the Reporters Committee since late 1998. Prior to joining the committee staff, he worked in book and music stores while studying Central European history. Somewhere along the way he obtained a paralegal degree. He admits to being a lifelong news junkie. His interests include writing and playing music in a variety of styles.

Scott Albright, Jack Nelson Legal Fellow, 2007-2008

Scott received his law degree from American University’s Washington College of Law in 2005. Prior to law school, Scott earned a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland at College Park. While enrolled in the master’s program, Scott interned at the Associated Press’ Washington, D.C., bureau and the Capital News Service’s Annapolis bureau. After journalism school, Scott worked as a newspaper reporter covering crime and local government for more than four years in Maryland and New Jersey. Following law school, Scott clerked at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Matthew Pollack, Reporters Committee Legal Fellow, 2007-2008

Matthew works on reporter's privilege, defamation, and privacy law issues for the Reporters Committee. Matthew received his J.D., with honors, from the George Washington University Law School in 2006. While in law school, he served as a legal intern at U.S. News and World Report and at the Policy Division of the FCC’s Media Bureau. He also served as a research assistant for Professor C. Thomas Dienes, updating the first amendment sections of his constitutional law case book and several commercial outlines and nutshells. Matthew received his B.A., cum laude, from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2003. Matthew has served as a reporter at the Courier-Post (Gannett), as a reporter and editor at The Daily Orange, and as an editor for Orangesource, an online humor magazine.

Jennifer Koons, Journalism Fellow, 2007-2008

Jennifer joins the Reporters Committee after more than four years at NationalJournal.com where she oversaw all campaign-related content and managed a special report on federal judicial nominations. Jennifer previously wrote about judicial nominations and politics in relation to environment and energy policies for Greenwire in Washington, D.C. She has also covered the U.S. Supreme Court for the Religion News Service and the legal Web site, On the Docket. She recently completed a joint master\'s degree program with the Northwestern University School of Law and the Medill School of Journalism. She holds a bachelor\'s degree in political science from Ohio State University. Her stories have appeared in a variety of publications including the Washington Post, the Lakeland Ledger and Inside Mexico.

Amy Harder, Journalism Intern, Spring 2008

Amy joins the Reporters Committee after graduating with a journalism degree from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. She has interned at The Bellingham Herald, the daily paper serving Northwestern Washington state, covering the public safety beat and writing human-interest features. She also held several positions on her college paper, The Western Front, including managing editor, news editor, copy editor and reporter. She is planning on applying to law school in the next two years, after working in a job related to either journalism or the law, or, ideally, both.

Alanna Malone, Journalism Intern, Spring 2008

Alanna Malone is an English major at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and will be graduating in May 2009. She serves as news editor, copy editor and reporter for her school paper, The Crusader. She plans to pursue a career in journalism or attend law school.

Alison Schmidt, Journalism Intern, Spring 2008

Alison will be receiving her bachelor's degree in Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics and Government from American University in May 2008. Prior to the Reporters Committee she was an intern at the DC Public Defender Service and plans to attend law school in Fall 2009.