Kristen Lombardi

Kristen Lombardi heads Columbia Journalism School’s postgraduate reporting program, Columbia Journalism Investigations, where she has the privilege of training the next generation of investigative reporters! Under her editorial leadership, CJI fellows have dug into worker heat deaths, online-dating companies’ response to sexual assault and other critical public-interest issues. Recent CJI investigations have won accolades from top professional groups like the Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists. Before joining the J-School full time in August 2018, Kristen worked as an investigative reporter at the nonprofit newsroom the Center for Public Integrity. She’s been a journalist for nearly three decades and received numerous national and regional awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service. In 2013, President Barack Obama signed a law addressing problems exposed by her 2009-10 Public Integrity investigation, “Sexual Assault on Campus.” She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Kristen has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University.

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