Alexis Okeowo

Alexis Okeowo is a staff writer at The New Yorker.[1]

Career

She grew up in Alabama and graduated from Princeton University.[2] From 2006-2007, she was a Princeton in Africa Fellow working at the New Vision newspaper in Uganda.[3] In 2012, she won an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to write about gay rights in Africa.[4] She became a staff writer at the New Yorker in 2015 and is working on a book about people standing up to extremism in Africa at the New America Foundation.[5]

She was a finalist for the 2014 Kurt Schork Memorial Award[6] and the 2015 Livingston Award for international reporting.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Alexis Okeowo". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  2. ↑ "Okeowo, Alexis — International Reporting Project". internationalreportingproject.org. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  3. ↑ "Fitting in". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  4. ↑ "Alexis Okeowo | Alicia Patterson Foundation". aliciapatterson.org. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  5. ↑ "Alexis Okeowo - New America". New America. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  6. ↑ Foundation, Thomson Reuters. "Kurt Schork Awards: 2014 Shortlisted Entries". news.trust.org. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
  7. ↑ "Alexis Okeowo - New America". New America. Retrieved 2016-04-19.


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