Location: Washington, DC United States

Groups: American University in Iraq, Columbia College - Jackie Spinner, Electronic News I, International University (Test Group), Kansas State U - CAR Reporting, Rhodes University, Test Group, United Press International

Journalistic Interests:
Investigations, long-form narrative, foreign reporting

Bio:
Krista is UPIU's regional director for the Americas, Africa and Europe. She holds an M.A. in magazine, newspaper and online journalism from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and has worked in print and online journalism for seven years.

Krista has covered politics, international news, faith and religion, immigrant issues, American Indian tribes and other topics.

She has reported from Europe, Africa, South America and the United States, and her work has been honored by more than a dozen awards.

Krista has been awarded reporting fellowships with the International Reporting Project and the International Center for Journalists, and has been published in The Washington Post, Global Post, and many other publications. She also writes for Religion News Service.

Krista has spent hours in an American Indian sweat lodge to learn more about how tribal sovereignty inspires cigarette smuggling rings, climbed cliffs in West Africa to interview village leaders about how Christian aid groups are changing their lives, hiked in the Venezuelan jungle to report on mining issues and traveled throughout Bosnia to write about civil war.

Before becoming a journalist, Krista studied in Germany and taught English in India. She grew up in Oregon, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

She currently lives in Washington, DC.