Jacob Kushner is an international journalist, author, and educator who writes magazine and digital longform stories from Africa, Germany, and the Caribbean.
He reports on migration and human rights, foreign aid and investment, terrorism and violent extremism, science and global health, climate change and wildlife, and press freedom.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Economist, National Geographic, The Nation, VQR, The Atavist, WIRED, Foreign Policy, and VICE. He has photographed for National Geographic and field-produced for VICE on HBO, and PBS NewsHour.
He is the author of China’s Congo Plan (2013) and Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants (2024). Both were favorably reviewed in The New York Review of Books.
He is currently a visiting professor at Columbia Journalism School in New York. He previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Languages
Dominican Spanish | Haitian Creole | Conversational German | Basic French
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison | B.A. in Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies; Journalism
Columbia University | M.A. in Political Journalism
Fulbright Fellowship | Terrorism & Extremism
Email: jfkushner@gmail.com
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