Fellows & Editors
Jennifer Dunn
- Trip:
- Fellows 2015
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Colombia
- Year:
- 2015
Jennifer Dunn is a freelance journalist with a background in public health research and anthropology. She worked in China for nearly a decade, most recently as the lead U.S. ethnographer on a HIV/STI risk and prevention study in Hainan and Guangxi Provinces. She has produced radio reports on many issues in China, including rural development tensions, ethnic minorities, and women’s rights. She has also reported from Colombia on the nation’s internal armed conflict, coffee production, and the environment. Dunn holds a master’s in Chinese Studies from University of Hawaii. She also previously worked as production director at KTUH-FM Honolulu, assistant producer on Peabody Award-winning radio series "Crossing East," and as assistant managing editor for China Review International. She also received a 2012 PRX Global Story Project Award.
Dunn was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from China in 2006.
Stories
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Voices From a Desert’s Drought
Forty-five-year-old Luis Socarras leads me in the oppressive heat, along a sandy path towards La Completa’s village well. We weave through barren shrubs and cacti, and step into a clearing....
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How Some Colombians Survive on Less Than One Liter of Water a Day
Thousands of people are struggling to survive on less than a liter of water a day in La Guajira, Colombia. Guajira is home to the Wayuu people, Colombia’s...
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Wayuu Communities Struggle to Survive Water Shortages in Colombia
“Look at these puddles! This is fantastic!" my driver cheered, every time he slowed to navigate a tricky patch of mud. “We might even have to stop the car early,...
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AIDS Daughter
In China, hundreds of thousands of children have parents infected with HIV. In the nation's rural regions, the stigma surrounding AIDS is so severe it affects not only the infected adults,...
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Rural HIV Carries in China Face Several Challenges
HIV/AIDS patients in China’s Heilongjiang province won a landmark court victory in December, and received the largest compensation yet awarded to the nation’s victims of HIV-contaminated blood...
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