I’m excited to share that I’ve been chosen as one of the 2016 Nieman Fellows. I’ll spend the 2015-16 academic year in residence at Harvard University, where I’m studying the intersection of public policy and economic inequality.
This is a super-prestigious fellowship and an incredible honor. Sometimes I can’t believe I had the courage to apply.
When I return, I’m going to work on a research/reporting project timed to the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination in Memphis. April 4, 2018 will be here before you know it – and I want to catalog what economic justice looks like in the city where King’s fight for economic equality was violently interrupted.
Stay tuned, y’all.
Wendi C. Thomas 