Student Named 2015 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Fellow.

Kateri Donahoe, a master’s degree candidate studying global health, is one of three winners of 2015 fellowships from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Donahoe will join fellow award winners Claire Felter and Pankaj Khadka as recipients of a generous stipend that will allow each awardee to travel abroad to produce an in-depth report on a compelling social issue. Donahoe and Khadka will also spend time working at the Pulitzer Center headquarters in Washington, DC.

The fellowships are a centerpiece of BU’s Program on Crisis Response and Reporting, which examines the intersection of journalism and public health at times of crisis. The group’s next scheduled event is an April 30 panel discussion and presentation featuring an expert panel of journalists and public health specialists, including Dean Sandro Galea and Professor Jonathan Simon. The panelists will examine “The First 1,000 Days: Changing Lives Through Early Intervention.”

Donahoe is a dual-degree student working toward a BA in international relations in May 2015. She also expects to receive her MPH in May 2016. Donahoe, who said she is committed to “seeking out the conflicts and crises in the world that no one seems to be discussing,” will use her award to report on female circumcision in Mali.

Khadka is a master’s degree candidate in photojournalism at the College of Communication. As a reporter/photographer in Louisiana and Colorado, he has profiled aspiring beauty queens, drug-using middle schoolers, and Rocky Mountain firefighters. His capstone master’s degree project is a photo documentary of Boston’s Blue Hill Avenue. Khadka, who is from Kathmandu, plans to use his fellowship to examine the effects of mass migration on village life in Nepal, where men and women often must travel to Gulf states to find employment—only to return, too often, in coffins.

Felter, who received a magna cum laude undergraduate degree from Tufts University in 2013, will receive her master’s in journalism from the College of Communication in May. Felter describes her passion for reporting on global health issues as a “compulsion,” so strongly does she feel about the need to inform the public about underreported health and environmental concerns, especially in East Africa. Felter studied Kiswahili in Mombasa, Kenya, and has continued to refine her skills in that language in the United States.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—a collaboration between SPH, the Center for Global Health and Development, and the College of Communication—has hosted student fellows from Boston University since 2011.