The Alicia Patterson Foundation
2025 Fellowship Winners
Rania Abouzeid
Freelance journalist
Beirut, Lebanon
“The Past is Always Present: From the Killing Fields of Iraq to the Search for Solutions to Climate Change in Europe”
Carrie Arnold
Freelance journalist
Williamsburg, VA
“When Public Health Crises Collide: Kidney Disease, Dialysis and the Coming Climate Disaster”
Josh Fine
Freelance journalist
Brooklyn, NY
“How Gulf Money is Transforming Sports”
Andrew Green
Freelance journalist
Berlin, Germany
“As the U.S. Retreats from Global HIV Aid, Does It Owe Life-Long Medicines to Those It Saved?”
Cornelia Grumman
Freelance journalist
Chicago, IL
“The Challenges of Delivering Quality Early Education: One Center’s Odyssey”
Tina Vasquez
Features editor, Prism
Winston-Salem, NC
“Migrant Abuses in the H-2A Program”
Christine Peterson
Freelance journalist
Laramie, WY
“The Race to Save Amphibians From Extinction”
Ashley Stimpson
Freelance journalists
Columbia MD
Nate Rosenfield
New York Times’ local investigations fellow
Brooklyn, NY
“Investigating Police Torture in the South”
Brian Howey
New York Times’ local investigations fellows
Oakland, CA
Final Judges for the 60th Annual Competition:
Final Judges for the 60th Annual Competition:
Maud Beelman – Collaborations Editor, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Arizona State University
Sandy Close – founder Ethnic Media Services, Pacific News Service and New America Media
Louis Freedberg – Interim CEO, EdSource, San Francisco, CA
Bill Marimow – President, Board of Directors of the Fund for Investigative Journalism
Czerne Reid – contributing editor, Science News, Instructional Associate Professor, University of Florida; Board Member, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
For Immediate Release. Contact: 202-246-3751
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eight compelling projects will be undertaken in the coming year by ten accomplished journalists, who are the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson grant. Their topics range from abuses of migrants holding H-2A work visas to the United States’ responsibility to keep providing HIV medicines to those it saved around the globe. The foundation, in its sixth decade, funds American journalism’s oldest writing fellowships.
The annual fellowships foster independent, in-depth reporting on local, national and international topics. The fellowships were established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly twenty-three years before her death in 1963.
The Fellows are awarded $40,000 for a 12-month grant and $20,000 for a six-month grant.
The new Fellows will spend their fellowship months traveling, researching and writing articles on their projects for the APF REPORTER, an online magazine. Each year, the Fellows’ articles and photo essays are distributed widely through websites, newspapers, magazines and news services worldwide. Fellows’ articles often are published jointly with outside news outlets and have resulted in many national awards.
More than 462 reporters, photographers and editors have won Alicia Patterson fellowships since the foundation was established.
The foundation’s directors named one Fellow in honor of Josephine Patterson Albright, who was a major benefactor of the foundation. The Josephine Patterson Albright fellow is Carrie Arnold, who is examining how rising temperatures are increasing kidney disease worldwide.
This is the eleventh year a fellow will be named for Cissy Patterson, who was Alicia Patterson’s aunt and editor of the Washington Times-Herald. The fellowship is given to a project involving science or the environment. Christine Peterson and Ashley Stimpson, who are detailing the race to save amphibians from extinction, are the Cissy Patterson fellows for 2025.
For program information for the 61st annual competition, please see www.aliciapatterson.org.
Applications must be submitted by October 1, 2025.
