‘Baby Broker Project’ Investigative Journalist To Visit University of Texas at Austin

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Pulitzer Center grantee and 2023 AI Accountability Fellow Naipanoi Lepapa will visit Texas University at Austin on March 21, 2024. She will be a guest in seminar classes, meet with students, and deliver a keynote presentation on her Pulitzer Center-supported work. 

Lepapa, who is based in Nairobi, Kenya, contributed to The Baby Broker Project. The sprawling investigation tells the story of one of the world’s most successful low-cost surrogacy agencies, New Life. Journalists from Mexico, Georgia, the U.K., Estonia, Kenya, and Cambodia documented opaque ownership structures, a practice of recruiting vulnerable women to carry donor children, and questionable commercial offerings.