Bobbi-Jeanne Misick
Bobbi-Jeanne Misick is the justice, race and equity reporter for the Gulf States Newsroom, a collaboration between NPR, WWNO in New Orleans, WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama and MPB-Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson. She is completing the Ida B. Wells Fellowship with Type Investigations at Type Media Center, which she used to report on outcomes for African immigrants detained in Louisiana and Missississippi.
Previously, Bobbi-Jeanne worked as a reporter for WWNO and WRKF reporting on health, criminal and social justice issues. She has also worked as a reporter and producer in the Caribbean, covering a range of topics from violence against LGBTQ youth in Jamaica to the rise of extremism in Trinidad and Tobago.
Bobbi-Jeanne is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Before that, she worked as an assistant editor and pop culture writer for Essence.com.