Tamela Hultman

Tamela Hultman is co-founder and chief content and strategy officer of AllAfrica Global Media, an award-winning news and information provider and systems technology developer. In partnership with over 120 African media organizations, AllAfrica supplies 1000 stories daily through the website allAfrica.com and such clients as LexisNexis, Bloomberg, Financial Times and Factiva (Reuters and Dow Jones). Dr. Hultman has reported, edited, consulted and produced for a wide range of international media, including the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, National Public Radio (U.S.), International Television News (UK), the Washington Post (U.S.) and Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris). She was founding Director of the Center for Africa and the Media at Duke University and a founding advisor to the African Women's Media Center and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Women's Media Foundation. She is also a director of the AllAfrica Foundation, which is preparing to launch HealthAfrica.org, an initiative to aggregate, index and distribute health information, track health funding and support empowerment of communities, particularly African women and girls, on health issues. "

• Former Advisory Committee, AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative