Shantal Riley

About

Shantal is an award-winning freelance journalist. She was recently named a 2023 Health Equity & Health Systems Impact Fellow for the University of Southern California's Center for Health Journalism. Her fellowship project will cover Flint, Michigan, on the 10th anniversary of the city's water crisis, for Harvard Public Health magazine.Her work has been featured by Washington Post Magazine, FRONTLINE PBS, NOVA PBS, Undark Magazine, Gothamist/WNYC, Vice, Everyday Health and Chemical and Engineering News.Prior to graduating from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, she worked as a reporter in Newburgh, New York. There, she reported on the contamination of the city's drinking water by PFAS – also known as “forever chemicals – and continues to cover PFAS pollution as a freelance journalist. Her work is also featured in Un(re)solved, a multimedia project from FRONTLINE PBS that investigates Civil Rights Era cold cases. She worked as lead reporter on the case of Jimmie Lee Jackson. In 2022, the project received an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Innovation.