Rebecca Kelliher is a journalist and a writer. She was a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Post-Graduate Fellow and studied at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as Barnard College. Her book project was shortlisted for the 2023 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Awards from Columbia University and Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Before journalism, she worked in higher education. She lives in New York with her partner and cat.