Carla Murphy, ’09, a reporter/blogger for Colorlines.com, is a 2015 John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim Reporting Fellow.
Murphy is among 20 journalists in the country to receive the unique fellowship, which is organized by John Jay’s Center on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ). The fellowships are aimed at encouraging and promoting top-quality journalism on criminal justice. The Fellows were selected from a wide pool of applicants based on editors’ recommendations and on investigative reporting projects currently underway or in the planning stage. The fellows will receive financial assistance or stipends that enable them to attend the 2015 H.F. Guggenheim Conference on Crime in America “Race, Justice and Community: Can We All Get Along? on Feb 9 & 10 2015 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and related events.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation will support sixteen of these fellows, who will work on projects directly relating to the conference topic, ranging from exploring biases in jury selection and the treatment of mental health issues in jails, to campus sex assaults and the implications of the growing commercial marijuana industry.
The John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium is the only national gathering that brings together journalists, legislators, policymakers, scholars and practitioners for candid on-the-record discussions on emerging issues of U.S. criminal justice.
About John Jay College of Criminal Justice: An international leader in educating for justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching, scholarship and research, the College approaches justice as an applied art and science in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law. For more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu>.
The Center on Media, Crime and Justice, established at John Jay College in 2006, is the nation’s only practice- and research-oriented think tank devoted to encouraging and developing high-quality reporting on criminal justice, and to promoting better-informed public debate on the complex 21st century challenges of law enforcement, public security and justice in a globalized urban society. For more information, visit http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/cmcj or www.thecrimereport.org
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence. For more information, visit http://www.hfg.org.