Amy Schafer

Prior to joining The Mississippi Free Press, Schafer worked as a freelance reporter for The Washington Post where she covered the extradition hearings for Luigi Mangione. She also served as editor-in-chief and business manager of Penn State's student newspaper The Daily Collegian. During her time as a student journalist she also completed an independent reporting project where she covered the criminalization of domestic and sexual violence in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She is graduating from Penn State Schreyer Honors College with degrees in public relations, global and international studies and women's, gender and sexuality studies as well as a minor in spanish.

Mississippi Free Press

The Mississippi Free Press is a statewide nonprofit news organization founded in March 2020 to “publish deep public-interest reporting into causes of and solutions to the social, political and structural challenges facing all Mississippians and their communities.” Reporters produce what we call “systemic journalism,” which investigates the underlying racial, historic and current structures that create and sustain challenges such as poverty, health disparities and education inequities. The MFP centers people, connecting personal stories to larger systems and actions by the powerful. Reporters go beyond documenting problems to explore and interrogate solutions.