David McCraw serves as the lead newsroom lawyer for The New York Times. He has been at The Times for 21 years and currently holds the position of senior vice president and deputy general counsel. He is the author of the 2019 book “Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts,” a first-person account of the legal battles that helped shape The Times’s coverage of Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, national security and the rise of political partisanship in America. In addition to advising the newsroom on libel and other legal issues, David is one of the nation’s most prolific litigators of freedom of information cases. He also oversees international security for Times journalists working in high-risk areas and has served as the crisis response manager when journalists have been kidnapped or detained abroad. David teaches a course in press law at Harvard Law School and has been an adjunct faculty member at the N.Y.U. School of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Cornell University and Albany Law School.

Steven McElroy is the executive director of newsroom operations for The New York Times, overseeing more than 100 people in support functions around the newsroom. Steven played a leading role in the resettlement of more than 200 Afghans — current and former Times employees and their families — who were forced to flee Kabul when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August 2021. Steven joined The Times in 1995 as a temporary news assistant and has held several jobs in the newsroom over the years. Previously, Steven worked in theater as a freelance director. He studied English language, literature and theater at Brown University and holds an M.F.A. from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Rebecca Blumenstein is NBC News president, editorial, driving journalism and original content across the organization’s broadcast and digital platforms. She oversees NBC News editorial teams, newsgathering, field operations, booking, “Meet the Press,” “Dateline NBC” and NBC News Studios. Before joining NBC News, Rebecca was a deputy managing editor of The New York Times from 2017 to 2023 where she led an expansion and elevation of the business report and ensured The Times remained an essential destination for live coverage and breaking news. She also spearheaded a pivotal revamp of The Times’s policy on social media, investigations and outside projects. Before that, she was deputy editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal for four years. Previously, she was the page one editor, foreign editor and managing editor of WSJ.com and was the Journal's China bureau chief from 2005 to 2009 where she led the team that won the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2007. She started at the Journal in 1995 in Detroit, covering General Motors, and moved to New York in 1998 to cover telecommunications. Her career began at the Tampa Tribune, Gannett Newspapers and Newsday. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and social science from the University of Michigan, where she was the editor-in-chief of the Michigan Daily.

Victoria Dryfoos is the college counselor for Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School in Massachusetts and teaches IB Spanish. She holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, a master’s degree in Spanish language and culture from Salamanca University and a certificate in college counseling from UCLA Extension. She is a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, New England Association for College Admission Counseling and of the Martha’s Vineyard Diversity Coalition. Victoria helps empower students to explore potential careers, attain admission to good-fit academic programs, finance their studies and complete their educational endeavors. Victoria has volunteered with a team at The Times since May 2022 to support the Afghan employees and their family members in obtaining their academic goals.

Abdul Wahid Wafa is a professional specialist with the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2022 and co-appointed in the program in journalism. He participates in journalism courses and events and advises reporting and writing projects about Afghanistan and the surrounding region. Mr. Wafa is the former director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University (ACKU), a nonprofit organization that promotes and facilitates research and information sharing through the dissemination of knowledge and the enhancement of the capacity of Kabul University and other private institutions in Afghanistan. From 2001 to 2010, he worked as a local reporter for The New York Times based in Kabul, Afghanistan. While reporting for The Times, Mr. Wafa traveled to almost all provinces of Afghanistan and gained vast knowledge about Afghanistan’s people and its culture. He holds a bachelor’s degree in law and political science from Kabul University and was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University where he studied leadership, democracy and communication at the Kennedy School of Government from 2010 to 2011. He is also a member of the steering committee at Silk Route Initiative, working on preserving the heritage of Afghanistan. He also serves as a board member of Journalists Safety Committee and the Heart of Asia Society in Afghanistan.

Lauren Katzenberg is a senior staff editor for The New York Times, overseeing the paper’s Latin America coverage on the international desk. From 2020 to 2022, Lauren was the Afghanistan editor and a core part of the team that oversaw the evacuation of The Times’ Afghan employees and their families, and has continued to work on resettlement efforts. Lauren joined The Times in February 2018 as the editor of the At War vertical, dedicated to telling the stories of those who experienced war firsthand. Before joining The Times, Lauren co-founded a publication called Task & Purpose, a digital publication covering military and veterans issues. She lived in Afghanistan from 2010 through 2012 working with local filmmakers and media outlets.

Andrew Steers is a vice president of financial planning and analysis at The New York Times. He has over a decade of financial, strategic and operational experience spanning the investment banking, private equity, venture capital, fintech, media and technology industries. Prior to joining The Times, Andrew served as theSkimm’s inaugural finance executive. In this role, he was a member of the company’s executive team and built and oversaw the company’s finance, accounting, legal, board management and real estate functions. He also managed the company’s H.R. function at various times during his tenure. Previously, Andrew held strategic finance roles at BuzzFeed and The Curex Group. He began his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and is a graduate of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. Andrew helped support The Times’ Kabul evacuation efforts in August 2021 and has been overseeing the company’s financial support of the more than 200 adults and children who have been safely resettled in the United States and Canada.

Dana Green is senior counsel at The New York Times Company where she advises journalists on newsgathering, publication and safety issues. She also represents The Times in freedom of information, defamation and other litigation. Prior to joining The Times, Dana practiced media law with the firms of Ballard Spahr and Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz in Washington, D.C., and international litigation at WilmerHale in London. She is the chair of the International Bar Association’s Media Law Committee and a member of the board of Cartoonists Rights Network International.

Marcia Parker joined The New York Times as vice president of philanthropic partnerships in June 2022. Previously, she was the publisher and chief operating officer of CalMatters, a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization that covers California and its state government. Marcia also serves as chair of the board of the Institute for Nonprofit News, which supports more than 400 media outlets in the United States and Canada, and serves on the selection committee for the John S. Knight Stanford Journalism Fellowships.

Aaron Tate has managed and developed new programs for refugee and humanitarian agencies for more than 15 years. At Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston, he oversaw the resettlement of thousands of refugees from around the world from 2005 to 2010. Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Aaron spent three years there leading reconstruction projects for Church World Service. Later, he created new programs to support asylum seekers crossing the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration. From 2021 to 2023, he worked with The New York Times to resettle their Afghan staff in the United States and Canada. Currently, Aaron works in Bogotá, Colombia promoting resettlement for Venezuelan refugees. Aaron also taught history and college preparation at a diverse, urban high school for six years.