These 20 talented journalists will get $750 each to attend conferences including NABJ, ONA, EIJ and IRE.
Each of this year’s 20 recipients of the 2019 ProPublica Diversity Scholarship will receive a $750 scholarship to attend a conference in 2019. This year’s recipients were chosen from among more than 535 applicants.
ProPublica is committed to increasing the diversity of newsrooms as well as of the broader journalism community. We believe that it is crucial to fill our newsroom with people from a broad range of backgrounds, ages and perspectives. We are committed to recruiting and retaining people from communities that have long been underrepresented, not only in journalism, but investigative journalism in particular. That includes African Americans, Latinos, other people of color, women, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities.
This scholarship program is part of our ongoing efforts and will help make it easier for journalists from underrepresented communities to take advantage of everything these conferences offer.
Among this year’s recipients are:
Kynala Phillips
Kynala Phillips is currently a senior and First Wave scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison double majoring in journalism and mass communication and Afro-American studies. She spends most of her time freelancing for Madison365.com, where she has served as an intern and editorial assistant. She is the co-president of the NABJ chapter at UW-Madison and former publicist for the Wisconsin Black Student Union. She will be starting an internship at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism this spring. Outside of class, she is enhancing her skills as the art director of Souvenirs magazine. Her dream is to enter the world of magazine journalism and become a culture editor in the field. Kynala will be attending NABJ.