Stephanie García is a New York-born multimedia storyteller of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. She crafts stories through audio, video, data and the written word.
As a freelancer, she is working with Reuters and USA Today for the midterms: monitoring, researching, and resolving data quality issues on election night. She also contributes to Intel Focus, conducting open source investigations into power, conflict and disinformation. Her short documentaries have screened at festivals in the U.S., Japan, Canada and Palestine.
Stephanie landed her first journalism job at PBS NewsHour, where she produced stories on climate migration and anti-Asian hate crimes. As a writer-editor at One Day, Stephanie reported on education equity issues like affordable housing and retaining Native teachers.
Her recent scholarships include a Fulbright in Germany and a data fellowship at Howard University. Previously, she covered Latine/x communities at The Baltimore Sun. Her work has been published with The Independent, Associated Press, and Washington Post.
Before the world of journalism, Stephanie had stints as an English teacher in Madrid, a refugee education caseworker in Phoenix, and in many kitchens and offices. She has lived in three countries, five U.S. states and too many cities to count, and grew up constantly on the move.