Andy Kopsa
I write, report, Make, Do
& Always question
I come from a pack of writers, readers, farmers, craftspeople, skeptics, pragmatists, fabulists, artists, fur tailors, wooden-leg havers, late arriving immigrants, superstitious Czechs and ancestors of unknown origin.
Award-winning international investigative reporter with over 15 years' experience working to hold governments accountable. Specialisation in criminal justice reform, gender and racial equity and reproductive rights space. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian (US/UK), Al Jazeera, The Nation, Foreign Policy, TIME Magazine, and many others.
“I told you so. ”
-Andy Kopsa, 5th grade
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
The Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting (2021-22) Juvenile Justice Reform investigation (Restorative Practices in Public Schools – removing SROs)
USC Annenberg Knight Fellowship: Reporting on Religion and American Public Life
Project – Mississippi: Religion, Policymaking, and Sex Education - During the fellowship, I produced a four-part NPR series highlighting the difficulty for MS to implement sex ed and wrote articles for Ms. and The Atlantic.
Society for Professional Journalists Award (Best government accountability reporting – 2012)
Open Society Grant (2014 HIV/AIDS Conference Melbourne, Australia) Women and HIV and the launch of new pre-exposure pharmaceutical treatment Truvada and controversy surrounding its testing/launch.
Fellow - Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University (Reporting on 2018 Cambodian National Elections, survivors of Khmer Rouge genocide)
The Nation Institute/Type Investigations 2013 – Investigation “kill the gays” bill Kampala, Uganda, and 2014 reporting false imprisonment of LGBTQ+ persons in Yaoundé Central Prison, Yaoundé, Cameroon
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS – REPORTING
The Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting (2021-22) Juvenile Justice Reform investigation (Restorative Practices in Public Schools – removing SROs)
USC Annenberg Knight Fellowship: Reporting on Religion and American Public Life
Project – Mississippi: Religion, Policymaking, and Sex Education - During the fellowship, I produced a four-part NPR series highlighting the difficulty for MS to implement sex ed and wrote articles for Ms. and The Atlantic.
Society for Professional Journalists Award (Best government accountability reporting – 2012)
Open Society Grant (2014 HIV/AIDS Conference Melbourne, Australia) Women and HIV and the launch of new pre-exposure pharmaceutical treatment Truvada and controversy surrounding its testing/launch.
Fellow - Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University (Reporting on 2018 Cambodian National Elections, survivors of Khmer Rouge genocide)
The Nation Institute/Type Investigations 2013 – Investigation “kill the gays” bill Kampala, Uganda, and 2014 reporting false imprisonment of LGBTQ+ persons in Yaoundé Central Prison, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Work(s) in progress
Slouching Toward Sunnyvale
Andy Kopsa
Connect with Me
Email
andy@andykopsa.com
Me and Joan Jett c. 2000