Dear Pulitzer Center Reader:
My name is Camila DeChalus. I am a senior politics reporter with Business Insider, and I’m based in Washington, D.C. I began working with the Pulitzer Center in 2016, during my final year at American University, and then again in 2019 as a grantee.
Throughout the years, I have stayed in touch with the Center and kept up with the amazing journalism that it helps foster. The Pulitzer Center gives journalists the resources they need to do impactful and meaningful work.
As a Reporting Fellow with the Center’s Campus Consortium program, I loved working with the Center’s staff. They gave me the tools and skills to report abroad successfully as a college senior. During my fellowship, I wrote stories and produced a short video on how climate change impacted Colombia's coffee industry. I interviewed countless farmers who were facing dire conditions on their land and needed to find ways to diversify the crops that they were growing. The hands-on experience I gained from the fellowship helped me solidify my decision to pursue a career in journalism. It gave me the confidence to hone my journalism skills and tell stories about how federal policies impact people on the local level.
In 2019, I partnered with the Pulitzer Center again, this time as a professional grantee with CQ Roll Call, to produce a series of feature stories on migrants at the southern border. Those stories’ topics included: the role that technology played at the border, the Trump administration's immigration policies enacted there, and how the U.S. lacked translation resources for migrants who had just arrived.
I would not have been able to tell these important stories and interview migrants and refugees stranded at the southern border if it wasn't for the Pulitzer Center.
The Center has genuinely helped foster a community of dedicated journalists and writers committed to covering the essential and underreported stories of our time, both in the U.S. and abroad. Supporting its mission this season helps ensure that these stories will get told and will help support more journalists to continue their work.
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To view highlights from Washington Weekend, the Pulitzer Center's virtual gathering for 2021 Reporting Fellows, click here.
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