Ian Urbina is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington D.C. that produces investigative stories about human rights, environment, and labor concerns on the two-thirds of the planet covered by water.

Most recently, Urbina has been publishing his work on the squid industry of China and forced Uyghur labour, about which you can read more in these articles: The Globe and Mail and Pulitzer Center/LA Times. We will be discussing this issue in the webinar.

Before founding The Outlaw Ocean Project, Urbina spent roughly 17 years as a staff reporter for The New York Times. He has received various journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, two George Polk Awards and an Emmy. Several of his investigations have also been converted into major motion pictures.