Contributors

  • Lisa Armstrong is an award-winning journalist with credits in The Intercept, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The New Yorker, Texas Tribune and other outlets. She has reported internationally including from Haiti, Kenya, Liberia and the Philippines. Her current work focuses on incarceration, including documentaries The Perils of Private Prison Health Care (CBS News), and a documentary about a young man incarcerated in an adult prison at 16 featured in the Social Impact track at SXSW. Armstrong was a 2020-2021 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow, 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Writing and a 2018 Justice Reporting Fellow for the John Jay/Langeloth Foundation Fellowship on Reinventing Solitary Confinement. She is a professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

  • John Barth is a content developer, talent recruiter and founder of Creative Media LLC. He works with clients in public media, podcasting and social engagement and has deep expertise around building shows, podcasts and production teams.

    John was Chief Content Officer of PRX, founding producer of Marketplace, ran AOL's news and politics channels, and was director of original content at Audible.

    John has been an award-winning reporter, producer and news director at public radio stations in Missouri, Minnesota and Philadelphia, and a frequent contributor to NPR.

  • Jelani Cobb is Dean of the Journalism School at Columbia University. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019.

  • John Woodrow Cox is an enterprise reporter at The Washington Post and the author of Children Under Fire: An American Crisis. In 2018, his series about the impact of gun violence on children in America was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. He was also part of the team of Post journalists awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. He has won the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, Scripps Howard's Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling, Columbia Journalism School’s Meyer “Mike” Berger Award for human-interest reporting and the Education Writers Association's Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, among other honors

  • Mellissa Fung is a veteran journalist, author, and filmmaker. Her book Between Good and Evil: The Stolen Girls of Boko Haram, debuted on the Canadian best-seller list for non-fiction in April 2023. Her first feature documentary, Captive, won several major awards. Fung has travelled the world producing original documentaries for Al-Jazeera International, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and TV Ontario, among others. She covered the war in Afghanistan as a field correspondent for CBC, leading to her best-selling first book, Under an Afghan Sky, which chronicled her experience as a hostage after she was kidnapped while on assignment in Kabul in 2008. She now focuses on human rights reporting, returning to Afghanistan to continue to report, particularly on women and children. In addition to Al Jazeera, her work has been featured in The Globe and Mail, The Huffington Post, The Walrus, The Toronto Star, TRT, CNN, and PBS. Her numerous awards include the Gracie Award, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association award, and the New York Festivals Gold and Silver awards. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York.

  • Adriana Gallardo is a journalist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She covers gender for ProPublica, a national investigative newsroom, and teaches at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. She works across newsrooms on crowdsourced-series covering women’s health and sexual violence. A few publications of interest include: Unheard, A Memorial for the Children Lost to Stillbirth, and Lost Mothers.

  • Pu Ying Huang is the director of photography at The Texas Tribune. She has overseen visual coverage of the Uvalde school shooting, the overturning of Roe V. Wade and tension on the U.S.-Mexico border. Before joining the Tribune, she photographed as a freelance journalist in Houston, TX and Bogotá, Colombia. Her work has appeared in Reuters, Al Jazeera English, VICE, ProPublica, NBC News and NPR, among others. Huang is also an appointed board member and national co-chair of the clips contest at the National Press Photographers Association.

  • Janelle Nanos is a business enterprise reporter and an assistant editor at The Boston Globe. She hosts the Bold Types video series, and is co-author of the longstanding feature "On the Street." In 2023, Janelle was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature reporting for her decade-long investigation into a woman's allegations of childhood sexual abuse. She was also recipient of the Dart Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Trauma; the Society for Features Journalism's narrative storytelling award; the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for magazine investigative reporting; and the Online Journalism Award for Large Newsroom Feature reporting.

    She has worked previously at Boston Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and New York Magazine.

  • Dr. Kate Porterfield is a consulting psychologist at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma at the Columbia University School of Journalism. Dr. Porterfield worked as a clinical psychologist at the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture for twenty years where she provided clinical care and evaluation of adults, adolescents and children who experienced war, refugee trauma and torture. She regularly consults on issues pertaining to trauma with journalists and human rights organizations and in legal cases in the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions, US courts, and the International Criminal Court. Dr. Porterfield is a founding staff member of the Journalist Trauma Support Network, an initiative at the Dart Center. Dr. Porterfield teaches and works with organizations around issues of wellbeing, stress management and trauma-informed best practices. She performed with and trained at the legendary Second City improvisational theater.

  • Gavin Rees is Senior Advisor for Training and Innovation at the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma. With background in broadcast journalism and documentary filmmaking, Gavin has been working since 2008 as a trainer and consultant to news organizations, film production companies, and media support organizations in more than 25 countries. He was a leading producer on the BBC film “Hiroshima,” which won an International Emmy in 2006. He has served as a board member for both the UK Psychological Trauma Society and the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

  • Bruce Shapiro is Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, a project of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice and politics, Shapiro is a contributing editor at The Nation and U.S. correspondent for Late Night Live on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. He is Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor for Academic Affairs at Columbia, where he teaches journalism ethics. His books include Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America and Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future. Shapiro is recipient of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Public Advocacy Award and is a founding board member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

  • Michelle Shephard is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker and podcast host/producer who has covered issues of terrorism and civil rights since the 9/11 attacks. During two decades at the Toronto Star, she reported from more than 20 countries, including Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan and went behind the wire at the U.S. Naval prison in Guantanamo Bay more than two dozen times. Her films include The Perfect Story (National Film Board of Canada), and the Emmy-nominated Guantanamo’s Child. Her CBC podcast series include White Hot Hate, about the rise of accelerationist neo-Nazi groups, and Brainwashed, investigating the CIA’s illegal mind experiments codenamed MK-Ultra. She is co-president of Canadian Journalists For Free Expression (CJFE) and on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.

  • Hannah Storm is a media consultant, specializing in journalism safety, wellbeing and leadership. She is the Founder and Co-Director of Headlines Network, a community to improve mental health conversations in the news media. She is the former CEO and Director of the Ethical Journalism Network and served as Director of the International News Safety Institute. She began her career at Reuters, and has spent more than two decades working internationally across diverse forms of media, including broadcast, print and digital. She is the author of Mental Health and Wellbeing for Journalists, published by Routledge.

  • Connie Walker is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist and host of podcasts Stolen and Missing & Murdered. Her work has exposed the crisis of violence in Indigenous communities and the devastating impacts of intergenerational trauma stemming from Indian Residential Schools.

    A member of the Okanese First Nation, Walker has spent over two decades shedding light on often overlooked stories within Indigenous communities. Walker’s podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s, is one of the most comprehensive investigations into a single Canadian residential school and became the first podcast to win a Pulitzer and a Peabody Award in the same year. Walker was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2024.

Credits

  • Dave Seglins is an investigative journalist, industry advocate and "Well-being Champion" with CBC/Radio-Canada based in Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, a member of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma and co-author of the 2022 national study Taking Care: a report on mental health, well-being and trauma among Canadian media workers (Carleton University School of Journalism.)

  • Jane Hawkes is a founder and Executive Producer of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, an educational charity promoting the safety and mental health of journalists. The Forum’s flagship projects include Mindset: Reporting on Mental Health and En-Tête: reportage et santé mentale, journalist-to-journalist guides used in newsrooms and journalism schools across Canada. Jane has many years of experience with CBC Radio and in independent international TV documentary production. She served on the executive board of the International News Safety Institute from 2010-2013.

  • Doug Husby spent four decades as a videographer for CBC current affairs shows like The 5th Estate, The National, The Journal. His work includes stories and profiles of newsmakers and ordinary people from far flung places all over the world.

  • Ariel Ritchin is Senior Producer for the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, a project of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. He is also a multimedia journalist and independent filmmaker, whose work has appeared on NBC, PBS and WNYC, among others. Ariel is a Logan Nonfiction Fellow, and holds an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School and a B.A. from Middlebury College.

  • Emily Queripel is a video editor with CBC/Radio-Canada,and has worked on various programming including The National, CBC News Network, and CBC Kids. She previously worked for CBC Life, HGTV, and TEDxTorontoMetU. In 2016 she edited "Momentum," a documentary screened at the International Indian Film Festival Toronto.