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Brittany Hailer
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Staff Writer, The Marshall Project
Pittsburgh
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Biography
Brittany Hailer is a journalist and educator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the director of the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. In 2020, she received a Golden Quill Award from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania for an essay she wrote about her experience investigating the opioid crisis while her father struggled with homelessness and alcoholism. For her stories of people affected by the opioid epidemic, she received a 2019 Golden Quill Award from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania and a Robert L. Vann Award of Excellence for investigative/enterprise reporting from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation. In 2018, Brittany was selected to be a Justice Reporting Fellow as part of the John Jay/Langeloth Foundation Fellowship on “Reinventing Solitary Confinement" and again in 2020 for "Justice and the Pandemic. Since then, she has investigated how the pandemic has impacted the Allegheny County Jail, including the jail's kitchen, its COVID-19 mitigation efforts and isolation of the sick, and the deaths of Daniel Pastorek, John Brady and Martin Bucek. Her work has been funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation and Staunton Family Farm Foundation. Her memoir and poetry collection "Animal You'll Surely Become" was published by Tolsun Books in 2018. "Animal You'll Surely Become is an honest, intimate, and unwaveringly compassionate look at our human vulnerability, especially the young, the disenfranchised, the addicted, and the innocent. These fierce essays sting, then sing. Brittany Hailer is a writer to watch, that’s for sure." - Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire Brittany has taught creative writing classes at the Allegheny County Jail and Sojourner House as part of Chatham’s Words Without Walls program and now teaches creative writing and journalism at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work as appeared in Sierra Club Magazine, NPR, Longform, Hobart, Booth, and elsewhere.
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The Marshall Project
New York, New York, United States
+1 212-803-5200
Founded: 2014