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Former APF fellow Erika Hayasaki has joined the board of the Alicia Patterson Foundation.
Erika Hayasaki Former APF fellow Erika Hayasaki has joined the board of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Hayasaki is an associate professor of literary journalism at the University of California, Irvine. She won an APF fellowship in 2018 and concentrated on epigenetics and the future of gene editing. A former reporter at the Los Angeles Times, she is the author of “The Death Class: A True Story About Life” (Simon & Schuster, 2014) and “Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity and the Meaning of Family” (Algonquin Books, 2022). Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Marie Claire, MIT Technology Review, Slate, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and other outlets. Her science writing has been featured multiple times in Longform’s Best of Science Writing. She teaches courses on health, medical and science writing and multimedia storytelling. She also was a Knight-Wallace Reporting fellow and has served as a judge for the APF annual competition. She joins board members Maud Beelman, Margaret Engel, Frankie Fitzgerald, Louis Freedburg, Robin Marantz Henig, Patrick Hoge,
The foundation notes, with sadness, the death of Adam Medill Albright
Adam Albright The foundation notes, with sadness, the death of Adam Medill Albright, 77, the longtime treasurer and trustee of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. His years of service to the foundation named for his aunt, Alicia Patterson, were a gift to its effective operation. Adam was a stalwart supporter of a free press, clean government, and most crucially, a healthy environment. He was a decades-long board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council and a supporter of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Rainforest Alliance, among others. He and his wife, Rachel, supported important journalism, environmental protection, and justice initiatives through their ARIA foundation, which they set up three decades ago. An enthusiastic outdoorsman, Adam was a trekker, hiker, skier and world traveler. He is survived by his wife, beloved children Mika, Reed and Garrett and four treasured grandchildren. His contributions to truth and protecting the world’s environment are a lasting legacy.
58th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2023
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2023 Fellowship Winners Final Judges for the 58th Annual Competition: Sandy Close – founder Ethnic Media Services, Pacific News Service and New America Media Erika Hayasaki– associate professor, U.C. Irvine Literary Journalism Program and APF’18 Robert Lee Hotz– journalist and chairman, Alicia Patterson Foundation Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn– associate director, Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities; instructor at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism For Immediate Release. Contact: 202-246-3751 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eight compelling projects will be undertaken in the coming year by nine accomplished journalists, who are the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson grant. Their topics range from agriculture’s ruinous effects on humans, land and water to to a system of clinical trials that’s often inaccessible to patients. The foundation, in its fifth 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
Dom Phillips 1964-2022
It is with great sadness that the Foundation acknowledges the death of Dom Phillips, who was researching solutions to protect the Amazon under his Alicia Patterson fellowship.
57th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2022
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2022 Fellowship Winners Final Judges for the 57th Annual Competition: Sandy Close – founder Ethnic Media Services, Pacific News Service and New America Media Eric Ferrero – director, Fund for Investigative Journalism Erika Hayasaki – associate professor, U.C. Irvine Literary Journalism Program and APF’18 Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn – associate director, Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities; instructor at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism For Immediate Release. Contact: 202-246-3751 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eight accomplished journalists will pursue topics ranging from America’s unacknowledged caregivers to the undocumented people stranded in hospitals as the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant. The foundation, in its fifth 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