Fellows & Editors
Karen Coates
- Trip:
- Fellows 2015
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Timor-Leste
- Year:
- 2015
- Find me on:
Karen Coates is a journalist and author who reports primarily on food, environment, health and human rights in the developing world. She is a senior fellow at Brandeis University’s Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. Her work has appeared in publications around the world, including The New York Times, Slate, NPR, Archaeology and Al Jazeera America. Her latest book, co-authored with her husband and partner Jerry Redfern, is Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos, which was a finalist for the Investigative Reporters & Editors Book Award. After living in Southeast Asia for several years, Coates and Redfern set roots in New Mexico, near the Rio Grande, where they keep a yard full of vegetable and herb gardens, grapes and fruit trees. Coates, a former correspondent for Gourmet magazine, is an avid cook and chile connoisseur, and she has taught Southeast Asian cooking to a variety of community groups. She also teaches nonfiction storytelling to journalists in developing countries. She was a 2010-11 Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism, a 2013 International Center for Journalists Social Justice Reporting Fellow, and a 2015 International Women’s Media Foundation African Great Lakes Reporting Fellow. Her food blog is ramblingspoon.com.
Stories
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The Birth Whisperers of Timor-Leste
Rosa Bana rolls the cuffs of her jeans up to her knees. She grabs a couple of water bottles and drapes a jacket over her head to shield herself from the piercing...
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Women in East Timor Push for Political Power
Timor-Leste will hold elections on Oct. 29 to determine the country’s next local leaders. And for the first time since this tiny Southeast Asian nation gained independence in 2002, women occupy prominent...
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The UN Celebrates Women and Girls in Science—and Why That’s Important
Think on this: What happens to the typical man with a PhD in science after his wife has their first child? Are his opportunities affected by the status of his home life...
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#GivingTuesday - A Few Suggestions
People want to help. Always. This is the message we get every time we return from a trip overseas: people sincerely care, they want to help, they want to make a difference,...
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Thirsting for a Paris Deal in Timor-Leste
Every morning in the sparsely populated region of Baguia, high in the mountains of Timor-Leste, women and children rise hours before dawn. They grab a couple of jugs and trek to the...
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Beyond Terror to Tolerance
When I learned of the blasts in Beirut, I was in transit from Singapore to Dallas, and I caught blips of the story at airport stops along the way. When I...
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