DIRECTOR
Haley Cohen Gilliland, Davenport ’11
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. Her first book, A Flower Traveled in My Blood, a narrative nonfiction history of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, was published in July of 2025. You can learn more about her work here and email her at haley.cohengilliland@yale.edu.
STUDENT FELLOWS
Josie Reich, Davenport ’26
Josie Reich is a senior from Washington, DC majoring in American Studies. She has interned at The Wall Street Journal, Washingtonian Magazine, and POLITICO. At Yale, she covered the university president for the Yale Daily News and is a senior editor of The New Journal. Drop a line at josie.reich@yale.edu.
Ellie Park, Benjamin Franklin, ’26
Ellie Park is a senior from Suwanee, Georgia majoring in Film and Media Studies. This past summer, she worked as a Social Media Intern at Forbes. On campus, she has served as the Multimedia Managing Editor of the Yale Daily News, as well as a Design Editor and Photographer for The New Journal. Contact her at ellie.park@yale.edu.