Kat Stromquist
(She/Her)
New Orleans
As seen in:
Medium,
MSN,
NPR,
Associated Press,
U.S. News and World Report,
Yahoo,
Gambit,
WBUR-FM (Boston, MA),
Arkansas Democrat Gazette,
Richmond Times-Dispatch
and
Covers:
Prisons, jails, incarceration, parole, reentry, police accountability, criminal-justice legislation, etc.
Doesn't Cover:
Classic "cops beat" coverage of individual crimes.
Idealist, cat person. "I'm not brave, but I won't fear pain."
Kat Stromquist’s Biography
Public-radio reporter for Gulf States Newsroom, a collaboration between NPR and member stations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. I'm based in New Orleans and cover incarceration and prison issues across the three Gulf states, with some other criminal-justice reporting mixed in. I also have a special interest in stories related to disability rights.
I'd love to talk about anything you're working on related to: LWOP, JLWOP, disability issues and the criminal justice system, sentencing practices (especially around fentanyl), prison oversight, jail voting rights, reentry issues and children affected by incarceration.
Previously I worked at the statewide Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper and the New Orleans alt-weekly The Gambit.