Farah Stockman

Farah Stockham
Born Farah Nisa Stockman
(1974-05-21) May 21, 1974
East Lansing, Michigan[1]
Alma mater Harvard University[1]
Years active 1996–present
Known for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Farah Nisa Stockman (born May 21, 1974)[2] is an American journalist, currently employed by the New York Times.

Education

Stockman attended Harvard University, graduating in 1996.[3][4]

In the summer of 1996 Stockman directed the Mission Hill Summer Program with Harvard's Phillips Brooks House Association.[5]

Kenya, 1997-2000

Following graduation Stockman served as a school teacher in Kenya for two years. Stockman and other teachers set up the Jitegemee non-governmental organization.[6] While living in Kenya Stockman began writing for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Voice of America and Reuters. During her time in Kenya Stockman covered the Rwandan genocide.[7]

Attempts to interview Mubarik Shah Gillani

Stockman is reported to have been seeking to interview Mubarik Shah Gillani, an individual who was in hiding, who was also being sought by Daniel Pearl, at the time of his death.[8] Mariane Pearl, Daniel Pearl's wife, wrote that an article Stockman wrote, linking Gillani to Richard Reid, was the inspiration for her husband to seek the interview that led to his capture and death.

Boston Globe

Upon her return to the United States Stockman started working for the Boston Globe. She worked in the Globe's Washington bureau, before becoming a member of the Globe's editorial board and editorial columnist.[9] In 2016 she moved to "The New York Times". She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016.

Awards

Stockman was a winner of an award from the J. W. Saxe Memorial Fund in the 1990s.[10] Stockman won her award for her work "with homeless children in Machakos, Kenya." Stockman subsequently became one of the fund's directors.

In 2009 Stockman won the William Brewster Styles Award.[11] The award is one given by the Scripps Howard Foundation, and is accompanied by $10,000. Stockman's award was "for identifying U.S. corporations that were covertly using international relationships and offshore operations to avoid taxes, side-step U.S. laws and deny workers’ rights."

In 2014, at the annual meeting of the Association of Opinion Journalists in Mobile, Stockman received The Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing, presented by the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the educational arm of the Society of Professional Journalists. It awards $75,000 each year to an outstanding editorial writer or columnist to help broaden his or her journalistic horizons and knowledge of the world. Stockman is writing a study of race relations, especially in Boston, riven by the 1974 court order to bus students to address de facto segregation in the schools.

In 2016, Stockman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, in recognition of a series of articles examining the effects of busing on Boston schools.

External links

References

  1. 1 2 Staff. "Farah Stockman". The Boston Globe. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ Farah Stockman (@fstockman) (May 21, 2014). "Another quote for the oldsters on their birthday: Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. - Charles M. Schultz". Twitter. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ Nicholas K. Mitrokostas (1995-09-30). "Seniors Begin Race For Marshal Positions". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2008-10-24. mirror
  4. ↑ "Harvard Radcliffe Class of 1996: Class officers". Harvard University. 1996. Retrieved 2008-10-24. The Scripps Howard Foundation today announced the winners of its annual National Journalism Awards, honoring the best in print, Web and electronic journalism and journalism education in 2008.
  5. ↑ "jitegemee -- Who we are". Retrieved 2008-10-24. Farah Stockman is reporter with the Boston Globe and lives in Washington D.C. She lived in Kenya and Tanzania from 1997 to 2000, working first as a full-time teacher at the Katoloni Rehabilitation Centre for street children in Machakos, Kenya and then as a freelance journalist. Farah founded Jitegemee with support from the local community in Kenya. Previous non-profit experience includes directing the Mission Hill Summer Program with Harvard's Phillips Brooks House Association in 1996. mirror
  6. ↑ "jitegemee". Retrieved 2008-10-24. mirror
  7. ↑ Farah Stockman (2000). "The People's Court: Crime and punishment in Rwanda" 9 (8; number 4). Project MUSE. pp. 20–41. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
  8. ↑ Mariane Pearl, Sarah Crichton (2003). A Mighty Heart: the brave life and death of my husband, Danny Pearl. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-4442-8. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
  9. ↑ "Farah Stockman". bostonglobe.com. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Board & Officers". J. W. Saxe Memorial Fund. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
  11. ↑ "Scripps Howard Foundation Announces National Journalism Awards Winners". Scripps Howard Foundation. 2009-03-19. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
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