Alexis Okeowo

Career

She grew up in Alabama and graduated from Princeton University. From 2006-2007, she was a Princeton in Africa Fellow working at the New Vision newspaper in Uganda. In 2012, she won an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to write about gay rights in Africa. 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.

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