Profile: Catherine Traywick

Catherine has shown interest in Race & Demographics, Employment Issues, Wealth & Poverty, Public Health

About Catherine Traywick

I am a freelance journalist interested in advocacy journalism—in articulating social justice concerns through dynamic, well crafted editorial media. My work had appeared in Ms., Hyphen, the Huffington Post, and a few other regional publications.

Beginning in Fall 2011, I will be a Master's student at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

Work Samples

Pre­serv­ing the Future, Ms. magazine, April 2011 As Big Oil increas­ingly tar­gets indige­nous lands—at great cost to communities—Native women are lead­ing the charge against them. Defending the Rights of Filipino Health Care Workers, Ms. Magazine, December 2010 In an unlaw­ful and unjus­ti­fied sweep, 43 health workers–including two preg­nant women–were detained nine months ago in Morong, Philip­pines. The women and men were sep­a­rated and sent to prison camps with­out expla­na­tion. Three women have since “dis­ap­peared.” Exclu­sive inter­view with the impris­oned healthworkers. America's Toughest Sheriff?, Ms. magazine, May 2010 n Ari­zona, Sher­iff Joe Arpaio’s hard‐line approach to immi­gra­tion enforce­ment hits immi­grant women the hardest.

Work History

Assistant Producer at Science Today Produce daily Science Today radio program for UC and CBS radio. Staff Writer at Hyphen magazine Produce web and print con­tent, includ­ing book reviews and blog posts on social issues rel­e­vant to Asian Amer­i­can com­mu­nity; Front of book edit­ing; Assist with fact-checking and edit­ing print fea­tures [Feb­ru­ary 2009—present] Contributing Writer (formerly editorial intern) at Ms. magazine Produce reported print fea­tures and web con­tent on issues of gen­der equal­ity. As intern: Per­formed research and fact check­ing; Assisted in devel­op­ment and man­age­ment of blog includ­ing design, edit­ing and con­tent cre­ation; Pre­pared front of book con­tent; Screened books and movies for review. [Jan­u­ary 2010—present] Immigration Blogger at the Media Consortium Pro­duce weekly, syn­di­cated immi­gra­tion news sum­maries, high­light­ing and con­tex­tu­al­iz­ing pro­gres­sive media dis­course. [July 2010—present]