Hilke Schellmann's picture

Hilke Schellmann is a video journalist for The Wall Street Journal.
She has worked as a Coordinating Producer for National Geographic
Television and on documentaries for the American Undercover series on
HBO. Hilke, together with Habiba Nosheen, produced a half-hour special
on surrogacy that aired on the Emmy-award winning show NOW on PBS in September 2009. For this investigative documentary they received a
SAJA Award and the Leslie Sander Prize for Social Justice. The film
was also a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors
Awards. Additionally, Hilke’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Time, WDR, ARD and die tageszeitung. For her article with Habiba Nosheen on military wives being targeted as surrogate mothers for Glamour Magazine, the team won a SAJA award for outstanding story.

Hilke is a German native and a former Fulbright fellow. She holds a
master's degree in Cultural Theory from Humboldt University (Berlin,
Germany) and a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University.

NOW on PBS - Wombs for rent

Time.com - The Netherlands Tells Immigrants to Learn Dutch or Get Out

wsj.com - Sexual-Abuse Scandal Shakes Europe Church's Core

Glamour Magazine - The Most Wanted Surrogates in the World