Stacy Sullivan joined Human Rights Watch in May 2007 as the US media director, focusing primarily on publicizing counterterrorism issues, after more than a decade as a journalist. She covered the war in Bosnia for Newsweek magazine, and later joined the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, a non-profit organization that trains journalists in emerging democracies. She has written on a variety of human rights issues for the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, New York Magazine, Men's Journal, and Mirabella, and published op-eds in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and others. Sullivan holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in political science and German literature, and an M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University.

Articles

"The Minutes of the Guantánamo Bay Bar Association," New York Magazine, June 19, 2006

"Osama bin Laden's Media Director Puts on a Show," The Huffington Post, May 12, 2008  

"The Forgotten Kid of Guantánamo," Salon, May 27, 2008