Yemile Bucay is a consultant with the digital safety and free expression team at PEN America, working to foster a culture of safety in the profession to promote a sustainable, resilient, and free press. A journalism risk advisor and safety trainer, she advises newsrooms and nonprofits on safety and security issues and is a resident safety advisor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she teaches in the “Law, Safety, and Ethics” core course. She is a partner of the Aegis Safety Alliance, a collective of female and nonbinary safety experts providing identity-aware and trauma-informed risk advice to media and nonprofits.
Formerly, she was BuzzFeed’s Risk and Security Manager. She was also a fellow in the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Next Gen Safety Trainers program. 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.