Jenifer McKim
Jenifer McKim is an award-winning, multi-media, investigative reporter who specializes in social justice issues, including child welfare, sex trafficking, housing, personal debt and criminal justice. She is a senior investigative reporter at the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting where her print and radio stories are published on GBH News, an NPR affiliate, as well as with other media partners including The Boston Globe. McKim also runs an investigative journalism clinic out of Boston University where she works hand-in-hand with upper class and graduate students to report on stories that have led to the exoneration of a wrongfully convicted man after 32 years in prison and public focus on the growing problem of campus suicides and the state’s troubled parole system. McKim’s investigations have earned numerous prestigious awards. They include the national Edward R. Murrow Award, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and the Freedom of Information Award from the New England First Amendment Coalition. She led a team of reporters to investigate the problem of lead-tainted Mexican candies in California that was one of three nominated finalists for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. Before joining the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting in 2013, McKim was a staff reporter for The Boston Globe, the Orange County Register in Southern California and the San Juan Star in Puerto Rico. She speaks fluent Spanish and is a frequent public speaker.