Beatrice Edwards is the executive director of the Government Accountability Project (GAP) in Washington, D.C. She works with whistleblowers from government, corporations, and international financial institutions on issues of illegality, abuse, and corruption. For ten years, she was a contributing columnist to The Texas Observer, working under the pseudonym “Gabriela Bocagrande,” and she received a Project Censored award in 2002. Currently, she writes for GAP’s inhouse blog and for The Huffington Post about corruption and surveillance issues.

Ms. Edwards holds an M.A. from the University of Texas and a Ph.D. from American University; she speaks publicly about the need for whistleblower and witness protection, as well as strong anticorruption measures in public and private organizations. She has spoken at conferences in Bangkok, Delhi, Paris, Sao Paulo, Moscow, and Cali, as well as around the United States. In March 2013, she helped to establish an international network of whistleblower protection organizations, About the Government Accountability Project

The mission of the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is to protect the public interest by advancing the rights of employees to speak out about serious problems they discover at work. To achieve this mission, GAP assists whistleblowers in making disclosures to institutional policymakers, the public, and the media. Over the decades GAP's staff has developed inhouse expertise in several broad program areas, including strengthening the legal rights of whistleblowers, increasing food and drug safety, ensuring safe and cost-effective cleanup at nuclear weapons facilities, enforcing environmental and worker protections, pursuing national security, promoting corporate accountability, and increasing accountability mechanisms in international institutions.

Since its founding in 1977, GAP has helped more than five thousand whistleblowers and expanded to a twenty-member staff in our Washington, D.C. office. We also conduct an accredited legal clinic for law students and operate a highly popular internship program.

Hundreds of whistleblowers contact GAP each year. Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, we are only able to take less than 5 percent of relevant cases that come to us, no matter how worthy they may be. Our goal is that whether we can provide representation, you will be better off as a whistleblower for having contacted us. If nothing else, we will provide a diagnosis of your options and attorney referrals. If you would like to learn more about GAP, please visit our website. To request GAP assistance in blowing the whistle or challenging whistleblower retaliation, please fill out our intake application under the Request GAP Assistance tab on our website.

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