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2024 Fellow Jenae Barnes To Visit Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Known for being the hometown of Michael Jackson, and its namesake steel mill Gary Works, Gary...
Jenae Barnes, a reporter and fact-checker at the Washingtonian and a 2024 Pulitzer Center StoryReach Fellow, will visit Southern Illinois University Carbondale to speak with students about her reporting on maternal mortality in Indiana and offer feedback on their environmental projects.
Her Pulitzer Center-supported project, The Silent Maternal Mortality Problem in Gary, Indiana, investigates the intersection of environmental, economic, social, and health care inequities driving the maternal mortality crisis among Black mothers in the majority-Black community of Gary. The project was part of Barnes' StoryReach U.S. Reporting Fellowship.
Barnes was also an Editorial Fellow at Washingtonian Media. She previously worked as a health and environment reporter at Capital B, where she covered health disparities and environmental injustices in Gary.
She holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree in global affairs from George Mason University.
