Grantee Adam Mahoney on Climate, Migration, and Community

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Pulitzer Center grantee Adam Mahoney will visit Northwestern University on January 20-21, 2026, to present his reporting and engage with students.

On Tuesday, January 20, Mahoney will deliver a lecture for Medill School of Journalism students on his Pulitzer Center–supported project, The Return to Nowhere: African Migrants and U.S. Deportation to Ghana. Later in the afternoon, he will meet with students enrolled in the Investigative Lab and Health, Science, and Environment courses for informal discussions focused on immigration reporting, immigration court, and data centers.

On Wednesday, January 21, Mahoney will join students and faculty at the McCormick Foundation Center for a talk on his reporting and career.

Mahoney is a writer from Los Angeles. He has reported from more than a dozen U.S. states and Palestinian territories, Mexico, Uganda, and Vietnam for several media outlets, including The New York Times and The Guardian.

He is the co-author of The Problem With Plastic (2025) and was a 2025 writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.