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Kristen Chick is a freelance journalist focused on gender, conflict, and migration. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, The New Republic, and elsewhere. 

 

Currently based in the UK, Kristen works throughout Europe and the Middle East. From 2010 to 2014 she was based in Cairo and covered politics, conflict, and human rights in the region — from popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain to conflict in Syria, Libya, and Gaza. Kristen continued to cover those themes after moving to Europe. During two years in the Balkans, she extensively reported on migration and sexual violence. 

 

She has received multiple grants and fellowships from the International Women’s Media Foundation to support her work. Her 2018 investigation of sexual abuse in photojournalism for the Columbia Journalism Review was a finalist for the John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprising Reporting in the 2019 Mirror Awards. Kristen received a B.A. from the University of Alabama and a 2007 Fulbright scholarship to study in Egypt.

Projects

A Radical German Program Promised a Fresh Start to Yazidi Survivors of ISIS Captivity. But Some Women Are Still Longing for Help

TIME

CJR Special Report: Photojournalism’s moment of reckoning

The Columbia Journalism Review

The Most Dangerous Job in Journalism Is Just Being a Reporter in Egypt

Foreign Policy

Fighting Authoritarianism, One Mass at a Time

The New Republic

These young people are fighting for the Democratic Republic of Congo to live up to its name

The Los Angeles Times

For some Syrian women, refugee life proves unexpectedly liberating

The Washington Post

Kosovo's attempt to help wartime rape survivors reopens old wounds

The Christian Science Monitor

Ending the Shame of Kosovo’s Rape Victims

Foreign Policy

SELECTED WORK

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