Key Staff

Deborah Ensor

Regional Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa

Deborah Ensor is the Regional Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa for Internews, where she oversees media development projects in Sudan, Rwanda, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria.  Previously, as Internews’ Country Director in Sudan, she helped build a network of community radio stations and provided mentoring and guidance for a staff of almost 30 young Sudanese journalists.
 
Ensor holds a Master’s degree in Journalism and Human Rights from Columbia University. She has more than 15 years of experience as a working journalist and 10 years working  in non-profits and development.  She served as editor in chief for one of the largest community newspapers in the United States and was a reporter at several major metropolitan dailies. She has received a scholarship from the Overseas Press Club Foundation, and trained at the American Press Institute and Poynter Institute of Media Studies.

In addition to her journalism career, Deborah has spent the past six years in East Africa, where she designed and implemented numerous projects for major international NGOs dealing with media, education, HIV and sexual violence.  She started one of the first gender-based violence programs in Southern Sudan, building a women’s center for those experiencing violence, conflict and rape. In addition, she designed a program to create safer schools in Ugandan slums and developed a series of radio dramas on the link between HIV and violence. Ensor lived for several years in a remote Kenyan village providing home-based care for those affected by HIV/AIDS. She is the founder of her own small non-profit foundation, “Ahadi kwa Nzalani,” that continues that work today.