Kate Chappell is an award-winning, multi-media journalist and communications professional. She has over 20 years of experience as a reporter, writer, photographer, editor and researcher.

Her work has appeared in publications such as the Guardian, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Washington Post, Reuters, Ozy, the Christian Science Monitor, the Ottawa Citizen and the Associated Press.

She was part of a team that twice won awards from the Press Association of Jamaica for investigative pieces produced with television program 18 Degrees North.

Her reporting expertise lies in the realm of human rights, business and politics, with a focus on ideas-driven journalism and critical analysis of current events. 

In addition to freelance reporting, Kate has taught at the University of the West Indies and the University of Technology. She was also the project manager for a USAID-funded program that trained 30 Jamaicans in investigative journalism and produced 10 pieces of original reporting.

Kate has a Master’s degree in political theory from Boston College, where she completed a thesis on the works of political philosopher Hannah Arendt, who wrote about the Holocaust.