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MULTIMEDIA

  • Video coverage of 2024 Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment which garnered over 15 million views (self-published on TikTok and Instagram)

  • 4/29/2024

    [2.8M views on TikTok, 2.7K views on Instagram]


    Caption: “And that’s not to mention the intricate communication structure they’ve set up to coordinate information throughout the camp and beyond ⛺️”

  • 4/26/2024

    [1.4M views on TikTok, 4.3K views on Instagram]

    Caption: “Regardless of the upheaval, it has been finals week for most of the students in the encampment and many can be found studying and working on assignments 📝”

  • 5/8/2024

    *Joint post with Sunrise Movement

    [34K views on Instagram, 9K views on TikTok]

    Caption: “An interview with Cameron Jones about the connection between the climate movement and the Palestinian liberation movement. 📢

    Because I usually report about climate change, I wanted to learn more about how the climate movement is tied to the current activism for Palestinian liberation that began at Columbia University. I spoke with Columbia University sophomore, Cameron Jones, a student activist with both the @sunrisemvmt and @jewishvoiceforpeace, about his experiences organizing for both.”

  • Agence France-Presse (AFP) Freelance Photo and Video Coverage of the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment Protests and NYPD Arrests, April 2024

View fullsize  The camp evolved into many forms over its several weeks of existence. Tents were set up along labeled "streets" around a central courtyard, with a food area to one end (with considerations for all dietary restrictions), an art corner, a press corps,
View fullsize  Following weeks of protest in the form of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on a lawn of Columbia University—which ostensibly shut down the campus—a group of students occupied Hamilton Hall, renaming it Hind’s Hall in honor of a six year old girl kille
View fullsize  The occupied Hamilton Hall, renamed Hind's Hall, is quiet and calm hours before the N.Y.P.D raids campus, arresting over 100 protestors.
View fullsize  A student protestor waves a Palestinian flag in front of the recently occupied Hind’s (Hamilton) Hall.
View fullsize  Graffiti marks the entrance to the Columbia campus from the subway station on 116th Street and Broadway, which is mostly blockaded by police tape.

  • Multimedia Reporting Project: “Occupation No More” (a collaborative effort to tell the story of the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment from the perspective of the graduate journalism students who were there) [2024]

  • The Guardian, Portrait of Catherine Elias, Columbia student protestor, April 26, 2024

WRITING

  • “What Student Journalists at Columbia Really Learned,” The Nation, May 17, 2024

  • “How One Thriving Community Garden Protected Itself from Real Estate Developers,” Columbia News Service, January 22, 2024

INTERVIEWS (Contributed Reporting)

  • Entrevista con Radio Con Vos 89.9 (Argentina), May 14, 2024 (en español)

  • “Columbia University student journalists had an up-close view for days of drama,” AP News, May 3, 2024

  • “Columbia student journalists broadcast NYPD college raid to the world from inside,” The Independent, May 2, 2024

  • “Columbia University faculty ‘horrified’ by mass arrests of student protesters,” The Guardian, May 1, 2024