Carroll Bogert is president of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit media outlet covering criminal justice issues. The Marshall Project seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the criminal justice system, producing journalism that helps make the system more fair, effective, transparent, and humane. The Marshall Project has won two Pulitzer Prizes and a host of other top journalism awards.
Carroll previously spent 18 years as deputy director at Human Rights Watch, running global media operations including websites in seven languages and social media followers in the millions. For more than a decade in the 1980s and 90s, Carroll was a foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine, based in Moscow, Hong Kong and Beijing, covering the fall of the Soviet Union, the Tiananmen Square protests, and the economic rise of Asia. She holds an MA in East Asian Studies and a BA magna cum laude from Harvard University and has two grown daughters.
