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Jess DiPierro Obert

Haiti, Mexico, United States
As seen in: Apple Podcasts, The Guardian, 1843, Al Jazeera English, Foreign Policy Magazine, Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja, The New Humanitarian, Rest of World, sr.de, Prism and
Covers:  Conflict, Migration, Women, Private Equity, Environment, Border Issues
Writer, Photographer and Doc Filmmaker | NY, Ayiti / Haiti since 2016 | obert.jessica@gmail.com | more active here: instagram.com/jessobert/

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Jess DiPierro Obert is an international writer, photographer and award-winning filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She is focused on solution-based storytelling, and has worked around the world including countries like Haiti where she lived and worked for nearly a decade. Jess’ stories are investigative by nature, centered on people and the environments that shape them.

She has been published in numerous publications including Buzzfeed News, The Guardian, The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, PBS Newshour. …

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U.S. Funding Cuts Fuel Child Recruitment Into Haitian Armed Groups Original

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By Jess DiPierro Obert
| Foreign Policy Magazine Verified
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—At 19, Emmanuel was caring for three siblings when he was forced last year to join Viv Ansanm, a coalition of gangs that controls large swaths of Port-au-Prince. Their father had left Haiti for Brazil to find work, and Emmanuel had been waiting for the promise of a job at a livestock program run by Sakala, a local youth development organization in the capital’s densely populated Cité Soleil neighborhood.
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US funding cuts fuel child recruitment into Haiti’s armed groups

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By Jess DiPierro Obert
| The New Humanitarian
Share & more Editor’s note: This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. × In March 2025, the Haitian government created a special security task force to combat gangs and began using armed drones in its operations, with support from Vectus Global, a private military company led by former US Navy SEAL Erik Prince. Prince previously founded Blackwater, whose personnel were involved in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, in which 17 Iraqi civilians were killed.
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SCOTUS holds the fates of 20,000 Haitian TPS recipients on Maryland’s Eastern Shore Original

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By Jess DiPierro Obert
| Prism Verified
Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it. Donate to sustain Prism’s mission and the humans behind it. Seven days after giving birth to a son in Salisbury, Maryland, immigration authorities took away 27-year-old Emane Alexandre’s husband following a scheduled court appearance for their pending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and asylum applications.
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Awards

Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Murrow award

2022 - Hard News

Edward R. Murrow Awards Haiti on Edge Real America with Jorge Ramos

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