FELLOWSHIPS

Throughout her career, Louisa Reynolds has been competitively selected for a number of journalism fellowships.

In 2021, Reynolds was awarded the Prensa & Democracia fellowship (PRENDE) by the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico. During her semester at Universidad Iberoamericana, Reynolds wrote a series of long-form narrative pieces on LGBTQ health workers. Her long-form narrative piece Claudia García, la enfermera que lucha contra el Covid en Ciudad Juárez, published in Nexos and Perro Crónico, was awarded the GLAAD Media Award, which honors fair, accurate and inclusive media representations of the LGBTQ+ community.

Previously, Reynolds was awarded the Robert L. Breen fellowship, in 2019, to attend an investigative journalism workshop with Pulitzer prize winners David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic, in Tepoztlán, Mexico

In 2017, Reynolds was chosen by the World Press Institute as part of its yearly cohort of international journalism fellows and traveled across the U.S. to attend conferences and workshops on fake news, nuclear security and climate change. During the fellowship, Reynolds interviewed migrants living in sanctuary cities for the long-form narrative article Tres indocumentados y la eterna espera de un permiso published by Nexos magazine.

Earlier, the same year (2017), Reynolds received Hostile Environment and First Aid Training (HEFAT) and traveled to Colombia to report on the peace process and Afro-Colombian midwives for Noticias Aliadas as an International Women’s Media Foundation (IMWF) Adelante fellow.

In 2014, Reynolds was chosen as the IWMF, Elizabeth Neuffer fellow, and took courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, wrote a guest column for The Boston Globe and worked with The New York Times. Reynolds also took part in the Cracking the Code hackathon hosted by the Ford Foundation and the IWMF, in New York, and was part of a team of journalists and entrepreneurs, led by Dr. Michelle Ferrier, that created Trollbusters, an app to combat the online harassment of women.