Kassie Bracken is a senior video journalist for The New York Times, where she reports, produces, shoots, and edits news stories and feature documentaries. She produced video features for Amy Harmon’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning series “The DNA Age,” on the impact of new genetic technology on everyday life and for Dan Barry’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize-finalist “This Land” series, on the effects of the recession across the U. S.
Her work has also appeared on P.B.S.’s “P.O.V.” and “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and will soon complete her master’s degree in Human Rights Studies at Columbia University. She was a 2011 Peter Jennings Fellow.