Jayati Vora

Jayati Vora

Jayati Vora is managing editor at The Investigative Fund. Previously, she was features editor for Al Jazeera America, and during her time there led numerous longform and investigative projects. Stories she has edited have been recognized by the Data Journalism Awards, the Sidney Awards, and the Eppys. Many have been translated into other languages and featured on radio and TV. She moved to AJAM from The Nation Institute, where she was web and associate editor for five years. Before moving to the United States, she was theater section editor at TimeOut Mumbai and staff writer at a men's monthly feature magazine in India. She currently edits a weekly column about race and equity in education for the Hechinger Report. Last updated July 2917

Impact

Making it to HBO

Here at The Investigative Fund, we usually measure our success by media pick-up, raising awareness of the issues we are writing about, and once in a lucky while, honest-to-goodness real-world impact such as the

News

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

The latest edition of Dart Society Reports, the publication of the organization for journalists who cover violence, has as its cover story a chilling account of solitary confinement in America. 

Impact

Rapes in Indian Country

In January, Investigative Fund reporter Kathy Dobie wrote a shocking and sobering piece for Harper’s magazine (newly available its entirety) about the invisible war on women that is raging in Indian country. 

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