Haley Cohen Gilliland (DC 2011)
Haley has served as the director of the Yale Journalism Initiative since Fall 2022. Before returning to Yale, where she was a History Major and YJI Scholar, she spent seven years at The Economist–reporting from Argentina, Uruguay, London, and Los Angeles–and three years as an independent journalist focused on feature writing. She is currently working on her first book, a narrative nonfiction history of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. You can learn more about her work here and email her at haley.cohengilliland@yale.edu.
Ángela Perez (BK 2024)
Ángela is now in her third year working as a YJI fellow. A senior in Berkeley College from Caguas, Puerto Rico, she has experience in digital journalism, and is now trying her hand at broadcast. Ángela was formerly a beat reporter and City Editor at the Yale Daily News and have also written for The New Journal. She spent the last two summers abroad, in Chile and more recently Cuba and Mexico reporting on folkloric music with Yale fellowships. Prior to that she worked at the Sacramento Bee as a Paul Block Scholar. Ángela is reachable at angela.perez@yale.edu.
Isaac Yu (BK 2024)
Isaac is a new student fellow and a senior in Berkeley College from Garland, Texas. He recently finished reporting on the law for the Wall Street Journal in Washington and wrote about the 2022 midterms for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Isaac’s first internship was at the New Haven Independent as a Shana Alexander Fellow. On campus, he worked as a managing editor of the Yale Daily News, wrote about faculty and is currently working on a thesis project about the American Studies Program at Yale. Write to him at isaac.yu@yale.edu.