Monitoring AI Surveillance at the Border and Beyond: Lauren Markham at Northwestern Medill

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Grantee Lauren Markham will host a workshop with students in Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism’s Washington Newsroom on Thursday, April 24, 2025. Markham will share her work investigating the far-reaching consequences of technologies used in border enforcement, highlighting key findings and sharing her methods with students interested in reporting on policy and migrant communities.

Supported by the Pulitzer Center, Markham reported on the booming business of AI surveillance technology at the U.S. border with Mexico and anti-refugee border strategies in Greece. Markham is a writer based in California covering migration, borders, and human rights. Her work has appeared in outlets such as Guernica, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and VQR, where she is a contributing editor.