The Fight Back
A Citizen’s Guide to Standing Up to Dictators

About Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa is the CEO of Rappler, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and one of the world’s foremost voices on press freedom and information integrity. Maria is professor of professional practice at the School of Inter­national and Public Affairs at Columbia University and co-chairs the International Fund for Public Interest Media, the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Information Integrity and the UN’s Independent Inter­national Scientific Panel on AI. She is also vice-chair of the UN’s Internet Governance Forum, and among others, serves on the boards of the Committee to Pro­tect Journalists, the International Center for Journalists, ROOST, and the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI.