Fellows & Editors
Katya Cengel
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Mongolia
- Year:
- 2017
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Katya Cengel has written for the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek and National Geographic News among other publications. Her University of Nebraska Press book, “Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life,” was a finalist for the 2013 Kentucky Literary Award. Her new book, “Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the Killing Streets of California and Back,” will be published by Potomac Books in fall 2018. Cengel has been awarded grants from the International Reporting Project, the International Women’s Media Foundation and the International Center for Journalists. She received a second place feature writing Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award in 2006.
Cengel was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Guatemala in 2015.
Stories
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To Fight Pollution, He’s Reinventing The Mongolian Tent
It takes the taxi driver three tries to find the neighborhood and at least another three wrong turns on narrow unpaved roads before he locates the company's front gate. Each time...
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In a changing Mongolia, higher stakes for out-of-school herding boys
In a few days Otgonmuren’s family will pack up their ger, their round felt tent home. It is late August, time for herders to relocate for the winter. Some of...
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Can helping men in Mongolia improve life for women?
Over green tea at a Western-style cafe in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar in late summer, Temuulen rattles off reasons why Mongolian men need help: poor health, high unemployment and heavy drinking....
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The Strong Women Of Mongolia Are Ready To Take On The Patriarchy
Gerelee Odonchimed was 23 the first time she said the word vagina. It was 2011 and she had recently joined a new women's rights group in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. For their...
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Mongolia’s Hunt For Female Street Artists
Odno Bold extends her hand in greeting, than pulls it away quickly. For a moment she has forgotten that her hands are covered in pink chalk and red paint, a hazard of...
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‘I Want to Go Back’: In Guatemala, U.S.-Born Kids Struggle After Their Parents’ Deportation
Amavilia remembers the United States. She remembers watching Dora the Explorer and eating ice cream at a Chinese buffet. She remembers hanging out with friends after school, living in a...
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When Family Ties Fray, Migrant Kids Can Land on Streets
The community where Cristian Gomez grew up in rural Guatemala didn’t have traffic lights. So it wasn’t until he was 13, when he moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to...
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Guatemalan Families Wager Homes to Finance U.S. Migration
Two years ago, Josefina Coyote was meeting with a lawyer in Guatemala City to try to prevent being evicted when she got a call from her neighbor in Patzun, a largely Mayan...
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Guatemalan Children Return From Mexico Shelters ‘in Very Bad Shape’
The reunion lasts only a few minutes — just long enough for Marta to bury her face in her grandfather’s chest and for her grandmother to shed several tears. Then...
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Migrant Kids Highlight Legacy of Violence and Inequality Toward Maya
Juan wears the same Abercrombie & Fitch hoodie he wore when he arrived in Guatemala City three days before. It was given to him in the United States. He keeps his other...
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A Homecoming Racked With Guilt and Shame for Guatemalan Migrant Children
They arrive without shoelaces — Ana with her long hair, Juan with his nervous, darting eyes and Adan with his anger. Because they are children and are traveling alone, they are escorted...
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