Violet Gonda, 2006 Stanford Summer Fellow, awarded Knight Fellowship

Violet Gonda, former Stanford Summer Fellow on Democracy and Development, was selected as one of 20 John S. Knight Fellows to study at Stanford during the 2007-08 academic year. Gonda is a producer and presenter at "SW Radio Africa." She is an award-winning Zimbabwean journalist who was banned from returning to her country in 2002 because of the work she does as a radio broadcaster. The radio station is forced to broadcast to Zimbabwe from exile in London. During their stays at Stanford, the Knight Fellows will pursue independent courses of study and participate in special seminars. Gonda's research will focus on the development of media in emerging democracies. For this research, she was designated the Yahoo! International Fellow, a fund designated each year to one fellow from a country where the press is under attack. She is the second journalist to be designated this fellowship.