Georgia Beeston
Georgia Beeston’s work lies at the intersection between art, culture, and human rights. She is Communications and Events Manager at Index on Censorship. She is also co-founder of Bosla Arts, an organisation focused on supporting artists, activists, and social-change makers worldwide
Mackenzie Argent
Mackenzie is a young journalist that graduated with first class honours in BA Journalism from Liverpool John Moores University in 2024, and is the Tim Hetherington fellow for 2024-25. During his time at university he made multiple pieces covering the city’s homelessness crisis, and has a passion for upholding and defending freedom of expression. Mackenzie previously worked with the Liverpool Echo, and was a fellow of the John Schofield Trust for 2023-24.
Salil Tripathi
Salil Tripathi is an award-winning journalist born in Bombay and lives in New York. He has written three works of non-fiction – Offence: The Hindu Case, about Hindu nationalist attacks on free expression, The Colonel Who Would Not Repent, about the war of independence in Bangladesh, and a collection of travel essays. He is writing a book on Gujaratis. More recently, he co-edited (with the artist Shilpa Gupta) an anthology honouring imprisoned poets over the centuries. He has been a correspondent in India and Southeast Asia. He was chair of the Writers in Prison Committee at PEN International and is now a member of its international board. He has studied in India and the United States and lived in the UK.