Emily Kassie
Emily Kassie is an award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker and the Director of Visual Projects at The Marshall Project. Her work focuses on human rights, corruption and violence, reporting for outlets including The New York Times, NBC, The Washington Post among others.
She was the founding Creative Director of Highline, Huffington Post’s investigative magazine, where she oversaw visual storytelling.
Emily was awarded an Overseas Press Club Award for Best Digital Reporting on International Affairs, the National Magazine Award (Ellie) for Multimedia Story of the Year as well as the Punch Sulzberger Award for Online Storytelling from the American Society of News Editors, for her work on the Syrian and West-African refugee crises.
In 2018, Emily won a Murrow Award for her work with the New York Times, covering Hurricane Harvey. Her New York Times documentary on sexual abuse in immigration detention was used as evidence in the Senate Judiciary hearing on family separation at the southern border.
She is a World Press Photo multimedia winner, a two-time PDN multimedia winner and the recipient of four National Press Photographers Association awards, including a Multimedia Portfolio of the Year in 2016.
In 2018, Emily was named International Photography Award’s Motion Photographer of the Year. She won an Academy Award for Student Documentary in 2015 for her film, ‘I Married My Family’s Killer‘.
Emily’s most recent film, A Girl Named C, premiered in October, 2018.
She graduated with honors from Brown University and was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University, where she completed her Masters Degree in International Relations and Politics.