Yemile Bucay

Yemile Bucay is a journalism risk advisor and safety trainer working to promote a culture of safety in the profession in order to have a sustainable, resilient, and free press. She advises newsrooms like The Atlantic and NGOs like PEN America’s Free Expression Programs on safety and security matters and is a resident security advisor to Newmark J-School students and faculty. She is also a lead trainer for the International Women's Media Foundation's Newsroom Safety Across America program preparing journalists to cover elections.

Formerly, she was BuzzFeed’s Risk and Security Manager and a trainer at the New York Time’s Adversarial Reporter Training (ART School). Before working in news safety, Yemile was a journalist who reported on immigration, produced a documentary on violence in her native Mexico, led research on online information ecosystems, and taught the business of journalism at Columbia’s Journalism School.

Yemile received a B.A. in Humanities from Yale University, and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.