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Michael Kavanagh

Trip:
Fellows Fall 2004
Affiliation during program:
WNYC Radio
Country:
Rwanda
Year:
2004
Email:
[email protected]

Michael J. Kavanagh is a journalist based in New York and Kinshasa who reports about conflict and post-conflict development issues around the world, with a special focus on Africa. His radio and television work appears regularly on NPR, BBC, PBS, and PRI.  His writing and photography have been featured by Slate, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Grist, MediaStorm, the Boston Globe, Human Rights Watch, and UNICEF.  He’s reported from over a dozen countries including Afghanistan, Haiti, Chad, Rwanda, DR Congo, Sudan, Senegal, Burundi, and South Korea.

Before turning to reporting full time, he produced and reported for a number of NPR and PRI shows and worked as a teacher and mentor for Radio Rookies, WNYC Radio’s journalism program for teens. He has received several grants from the International Reporting Project and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and is the recipient of a Gracie Award, several New York Festivals Awards, and an Edward R. Murrow award for his reporting.  His work in Congo for PBS received the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award for International Reporting and a national Emmy Award nomination.

He has a B.A. in Literature and an M.A. in International Relations and Development Studies, both from Yale University.

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