Friday, June 2, 2023

Joanna Kakissis

Trip: Fellows Fall 2009Joanna Kakissis
Affiliation during program: Freelance writer
Country: Bangladesh
Year: 2009

Joanna Kakissis spent the 2008-2009 academic year studying climate change-related migration and environmental justice issues as a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Before her fellowship, she worked as a freelance journalist based in Athens, Greece, from 2004 to 2008, writing for outlets including The New York Times, The Boston GlobeThe Washington PostUSA Today and public radio. From 1998 to 2004, she was a staff writer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., where she wrote about politics, immigration, urban development, arts and environmental issues. She has also taught journalism and essay writing at universities in North Carolina.

Her stories have received awards from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the North Carolina Press Association. She also contributed to a News & Observer series on Hurricane Floyd-spawned flooding that was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news.

Joanna was born in Greece and raised in North and South Dakota. She is graduate of the University of Minnesota and earned a master’s degree from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.

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