In early 2021, MIT Technology Review announced a partnership that focuses on exploring the various approaches to which technology and knowledge are used to address inequalities during epidemics.
With the support of the Heising-Simons Foundation, Los Altos and San Francisco, a California-based family foundation that supports climate change and energy projects, community and opportunity, education, human rights, and science – our calling requires access to journalists. who can report intelligently and intelligently about the system, expertise, and challenges that covid has brought to the insecure areas. Each Fellows receives $ 7,500 for their work and publishing opportunities in the oldest media outlets in the world.
We are proud to announce the recipients of the partnership:
LaVonne Roberts, an independent journalist specializing in science, health, and technology from New York, will cover the release of locker rooms, advanced medical technologies for health professionals as the airline system expands from doctors to other medical professionals. His work was different from the crowd, the judges said, clearly and concisely.
Elaine Shelly, a freelance writer and producer in Georgia, is exploring how long covid for Native Americans, and exploring how we can better understand the disease and its culture. The judges hope that his work can fill the void needed to spread the existing epidemic. “Looking at the lives of black women – as well as their long-term experiences of Covid-19 – Elaine Shelly’s reports have led to a growing number of chronic diseases, racism, and homophobia,” she said.
Chandra Whitfield, author and multimedia journalist from Colorado, examining how black women were particularly affected by the scourge of epidemics and domestic violence — and looking for ways to gather relevant data. The judges said they “found the most important issue in the community” and made the decision “intentionally and expeditiously.”
And our interaction with the newsroom goes Rob Chaney, who describes nature and science at Montana’s Mississippi. Rob and colleagues have been seeing the effects of the covid response and the amount of financial assistance provided by the state in Montana areas, particularly the Blackfeet Reservation. The judges acknowledged that his idea was “clearly successful” in his case.
The reviewers were a team of experienced journalists and researchers who were well aware of the risks: Alexis Madrigal, the KQED public broadcasting group Forum; Crystal Tsotsie, a geneticist at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Native BioData Consortium; Mark Rochester, an investigative investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of the San Diego newsroom of Inewsource; and See Yasmin, journalist, physician, and executive director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative.