Jessica Reaves, Staff Writer, Arts and Culture

Jessica Reaves has worked as a reporter and writer for nearly 15 years. Before joining the Chicago News Cooperative, she was with the Chicago Tribune, where she reviewed books and movies, wrote award-winning profiles for the Tribune Sunday Magazine and covered national news. In 2007, she traveled on an international reporting fellowship to Senegal and was named a Livingston Award finalist for her reporting on activists’ efforts to end female circumcision in West Africa.

Before joining the Tribune, Reaves wrote for Time.com in New York, covering the 2000 presidential campaign and its extended aftermath, the Amadou Diallo murder trial, the 9/11 attacks, and the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Early in her career, she reported for Ms. Magazine and wrote freelance pieces about international adoption law and euthanasia, the latter for Bill Moyers of PBS.

Reaves has appeared frequently on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and NPR.