Nelly Madegwa

Nelly Madegwa, the Pulitzer Center's 2024 Persephone Miel Fellow, is a freelance journalist based in Kenya. She writes frequently from a gender perspective on issues ranging from public health to sexual violence. Her work has appeared in The Elephant and other African publications.

Madegwa graduated from the University of Nairobi with a bachelor's in biology. She is an African Women Journalism Project Fellow and was first runner-up in the 2021 African Journalist Gender Equality Awards. She also holds a certificate in explanatory journalism from the Knight Center.