AAJA-Medill Innovator Award: Katrina Pham
Katrina Pham is a multimedia storyteller passionate about meeting audiences where they are. Her engagement work has reached hundreds of thousands of people across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts, and she uses a variety of vertical video formats, from in-the-field dispatches to at-home skits, to make news more accessible. As an audience engagement reporter at Borderless Magazine, Katrina has broken down complex immigration policy, uplifted community voices and shared critical resources for immigrants in Chicago. Katrina has worked with The Marshall Project, In These Times, ABC7 Chicago and The Yappie. She is also a co-organizer for the Chicago hub of the Video Consortium and memberships director for the Chicago chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.