Jennifer Brookland
Jennifer Brookland is a temporary producer for The State of Things.
Jennifer grew up in Baltimore, MD and studied International Politics and African Studies at Georgetown University. She spent four years as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations in North Carolina and Maryland, and deployed to Djibouti and the Comoros Islands.
After earning her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University she contributed to News21, a national reporting project on transportation safety in America. She also interned at PRI’s “The World” and in Nairobi with IRIN, the United Nations’ humanitarian news and analysis service. She received a master’s degree in human security and NGO management from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Jennifer spent three years producing content for international development organizations in D.C, highlighting aid work in countries including Tajikistan, Haiti, Honduras, India and Tanzania. She moved to Durham in 2015 and began freelance writing, editing and producing. Now that Durham is getting an Ethiopian restaurant, she’s vastly more likely to stay.
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In literature, film and popular culture, vegans have long been mocked and dismissed as naive, privileged white women who allow emotion to guide their...
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Nadja Cech grew up in a hippy community in Oregon, spending her days building fairy houses in the woods and drawing and collecting plants. So after she...
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Republicans in the House are moving forward with their version of the state budget. Teachers and supporters who took to the streets in protest over...
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Working mothers have a lot stacked against them. From insufficient parental leave to workplace culture that penalizes family time, moms often find it...
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After writer Samia Serageldin lost her mother, she traveled to Cairo to go through her belongings and remember the woman she thought she knew intimately...
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Although the majority of Americans support paid family leave, only 12 percent of North Carolina workers benefit from it. Employees are able to take...
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History tends to repeat itself, and when it comes to new technology, the adage could not be more true. As with the advent of railroads and electricity,...
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As a professional ghostwriter, Autumn Karen is usually forbidden to discuss her projects or her behind-the-scenes role in creating them. But the author...
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Andy Eversole does not like to go places without his banjo. But that does not mean he sticks close to home. His most recent recording project took him...
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The American Issues Initiative’s new documentary “Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook, ” wants to alarm people. It shows the myriad tactics that...