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By Emma Karn 12th grade, Sacred Heart Academy, PA 2nd place contest winner With lines from “‘Buzz of a Mosquito...But With the Sound of Grief’: The Lives of India’s Women Prisoners” by Jahnavi Sen, a Pulitzer Center reporting project A callous optimization problem: to fit 45 women in a room so small

By Mary Roche 11th grade, Eastchester High School, NY With lines from "The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees" by Agostino Petroni, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Step into the ghost forest. The unearthly woodland is not haunted, Just dead. How do you kill the unkillable? The

By Emma Lee 9th grade, Stanton College Preparatory School, FL With lines from “Finding Moments of Grace and Gold in the Midst of a Pandemic” by Naomi Marcus, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. a lukewarm berry engorged by a sticky web of dew and tears unfurling with the sour decay of reality

By Jacklyn Vandermel 10th grade, Northern Valley Regional High School, NJ 1st place contest winner With lines from “The Victims and Those Left Behind” by Mary F. Calvert, a Pulitzer Center reporting project claim 28 uranium mine, february 2020 bits of rheum like uranium glass form around the navajo

By Ares Bandebo-Cambra 3rd grade, Claire Lilienthal Elementary School, CA With lines from “Cielo’s Story #2: Fighting Loneliness” by Cielo Spini, a Pulitzer Center reporting project So long ago, I don’t remember when friends moved away to open schools and yards. My wings were clipped by zoom calls

By Beatrix Kim 10th grade, The Pennington School, NJ 3rd place contest winner With lines from "Purgatory at Sea" by Ian Urbina, a Pulitzer Center reporting project long have i held the notion that if such a thing as god exists, then he has left us, then this is purgatory, then we float in the sea

The second quarter of 2021 was another period of extraordinary, surprising growth for the Pulitzer Center. Extraordinary given the many different ways we’ve grown. Surprising in that all this activity was taking place—and thriving—under the continued challenges of the pandemic. The 13 full-time

The Pulitzer Center is joining Indigenous Photograph for an open photocall to solicit work from Indigenous photojournalists documenting their experiences with climate change. Apply Now Applications have now closed. Thank you for your interest. The Pulitzer Center is joining Indigenous Photograph for

This letter features reporting from “COVID-19’s Spotlight on Air Pollution” by Patrick Ammerman, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear Director Cabrera, My name is Aishwarya, and I am a 7th grader at Mountain Trail Middle School. I am writing this letter to emphasize the issue of air pollution. I

This letter features reporting from “'A National Call for Food Production:’ Sustainable Farming Seeks Revolution in Puerto Rico” by Syra Ortiz-Blanes, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear Council Member Paltin, Hello! My name is Grace Wright and I am a junior at King Kekaulike High School. I

This letter features reporting from “Uniform Femicides: System Errors” by Karen Naundorf and Sarah Pabst, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear Representative Kyle Yamashita, Aloha! My name is Kaitlin Kitagawa and I am a junior at King Kekaulike High School. I would like to talk to you about the

This letter features reporting from “ Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution” by Beth Gardner, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear Mr. McDonald, I am a fifth-grader living in your district in Georgia. The other day, I was reading an article called “Choked: Life and Breath in the

This letter features reporting from “A Pandemic, a Hurricane, and Earthquakes: How Much Can Puerto Rico's University Students Take?” by Énoa Gibson, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz, Imagine living through a Category 5 hurricane, slowly recovering, and then

This letter features reporting from "Will Algeria Move Toward or Further Away from Transitional Justice?" by Maggie Manson, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear Honorable Representative Katie Porter, Crowds filled the sidewalks and spilled into the streets. The footsteps and shouts of the people

This letter features reporting from “Summer Heat Can Lead to Adverse Health Restrictions for Residents Across D.C.” by multiple journalist-grantees from Hola Cultura, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear Congressman McClintock, In my health class, I could hear the throats of my friends struggle

This letter features reporting from “How AI-Powered Tech Landed Man in Jail With Scant Evidence” by Garance Burke, Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman, and Michael Tarm, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear Commissioner Joe Martinez, Wrongful imprisonment has threatened the lives and well-being of

This letter features reporting from “A Well of Grief: The Relatives of Murdered Native Women Speak Out” by Sara Hylton, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Dear U.S. Representative Greg Stanton, You may not know this, but Arizona happens to be the state with the third highest number of cases of