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 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.