The 2015 Community Health Reporting Fellows

Thanks to the generous support of the Hearst Foundations, ICFJ selected two U.S. journalists as 2015 Community Health Reporting Fellows. During their fellowship, they produced story projects focusing on minority, low-income or rural health issues in the United States. The fellowships aimed to improve reporting on often under-reported local health issues.

ICFJ invited U.S. journalists and bloggers who cover minority, low-income and rural communities to submit a reporting-project proposal that focused on local health issues. The 2015 fellows, Yvette Cabrera and Dana Ullman, received funding to support completion of their projects. They published their reports by the end of 2015.

Yvette Cabrera

Organization: The Voice of OC
Proposal: The nexus between juvenile crime, mental health and environment in predominantly Latino neighborhoods.

Yvette Cabrera covers the intersection of immigration and criminal justice issues for the investigative news nonprofit, The Voice of OC, in Santa Ana, Ca. She has worked in print, online and television, including as an investigative producer for CBS2 in Los Angeles, a columnist at The Orange County Register, a reporter at The Los Angeles Times, and a correspondent for KCET-TV’s “SoCal Connected,” an investigative news magazine. She has followed Orange County’s homeless from the streets to shelters, traveled to Haiti’s tent cities to interview earthquake survivors, reported on the suburbanization of human trafficking in Southern California, and spent a summer in Mexico to report an-award-winning series on the border killings of women in Ciudad Juárez. She is currently statewide president for CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California, the oldest regional organization of journalists of color in the country.
 

Dana Ullman

Organization: Freelancer
Proposal: Through a series of portraits of aging immigrants – New York City's fastest growing population – Dana's project reveals critical issues concerning access to healthcare and quality of life.

Dana Ullman was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She is now a Brooklyn-based freelance photojournalist and writer whose work focuses on humanizing statistics and social issues through storytelling. Dana's work has been published by the New York Times, TIME, CNN, The Atlantic and the Associated Press, among others.