Kaizar Campwala is a graduate student at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute, teaching journalists and news entrepreneurs best practices for producing high quality journalism in this data-rich, digital era.  Kaizar is the former editor of the online startup NewsTrust, a site dedicated to better filtering content from new and legacy media sources. At NewsTrust, Kaizar coordinated editorial activities on the site, managed partnerships with organizations such as the Washington Post, USA Today, and Huffington Post, and oversaw the growth of the community to nearly 20,000 members. NewsTrust is a non-profit project, funded in part by the MacArthur Foundation and Omidyar Networks.  

Prior to joining NewsTrust, Kaizar was a consultant to the City of New York on communications infrastructure projects, including Mayor Bloomberg's "311" government information service. He earned an A.B. from Brown University in political science, with a focus on American political development.