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Caitlin Dickerson is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer for The Atlantic.
She won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting.
Over the course of more than a decade in journalism, Dickerson has also been awarded a Peabody, Edward R Murrow, Livingston, and Silvers-Dudley Prize for her writing and reporting. Before joining The Atlantic, she spent nearly five years as a reporter at The New York Times and five years as a producer and investigative reporter for NPR.
Dickerson has reported on immigration, history, politics, and race in four continents and dozens of American cities. She is currently writing a book for Random House about the systemic impact of deportation on American society.
Recent work
The Atlantic’s September 2022 cover story and an exhaustive, 18-month investigation into family separations carried out by the Trump administration, which Poynter called “one of the best pieces of journalism this year.”
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Polish solidarity with Ukrainian refugees is waning, and some are more welcome in Poland than others. From Atlantic June 2022 issue.
The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present. From the Atlantic May 2021 issue.
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After extending Trump-era policies, the Biden administration has found that many voters are no longer willing to give Democrats the benefit of the doubt when it comes to immigration enforcement.
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