2018 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow Kadia Goba Will Visit Swarthmore College

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Kadia Goba, a 2018 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow, will visit Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. She will engage with students and the larger campus community through a classroom visit, public lecture, and a luncheon.

 At the luncheon, Goba will speak about her career as a journalist, and answer students’ questions. She will also visit the Great Issues in Public Policy course, where she will share insights into her reporting and career. 

Goba will deliver a public talk titled “The Shift of the Republican Party: Race and New Voting Blocs, Reimagining Congress, and the View from Democrats.” In this talk, she will explore how President Donald Trump’s populist approach helped win over a shrinking middle class and Black and Hispanic voters. She will discuss how that shift impacts swing and reliably blue states. Goba will also examine Trump’s effect on Congress and the challenges around reporting on legislators who fear retaliation from the administration. Finally, she will discuss how Democrats are coping under a second Trump administration and some of the difficulties they are facing as a party. 

Goba is a political reporter and contributor to Principals, news website Semafor’s daily politics newsletter. She covers the most consequential policies and policymakers of our time. 

Goba is a well-sourced reporter in Congress, where she consistently breaks news about people in power. Her stories give readers unique insights into the decisions being made—about politics, policy, and the people behind those decisions. Her work includes uncovering the corruption investigation into Sen. Bob Menendez a year before the Justice Department publicly announced multiple indictments against him. She previously reported at Buzzfeed News and Axios. As a Pulitzer Center Fellow Goba reported on Sierra Leone’s environmental challenges.