Rosa Furneaux

Rosa Furneaux

Rosa Furneaux

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Rosa is a writer and photojournalist from Norfolk, England. She currently works as an editorial fellow at Mother Jones, and freelance photographer with the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has also appeared in The Guardian, Pacific Standard Magazine, and Broadly, among other publications.

Her reporting interests cover human rights, health, climate and gender issues. With a focus on international journalism, Rosa has previously reported in East Africa, including assignments in Tanzania and Malawi. Her master’s thesis project, a long-form narrative feature, explored the connection between climate change and gender-based violence in northern Kenya.

She completed her Masters in Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Supported by a Dean’s Merit Fellowship, Hafner Travel Fellowship and Hugh Fulton Byas Memorial Scholarship, she studied photojournalism and narrative writing. In 2018, she received the university’s Dorothea Lange Fellowship to continue a photographic project documenting the lives of adolescent sex workers in northern Kenya.

EDUCATION

  • University of Kent
    English and American Literature BA (Hons)

  • University of California, Davis
    American Literature (Major), Photography (Minor)

AWARDS & HONORS

  • Dorothea Lange Fellowship 2018

  • Society of Professional Journalists, Mark of Excellence Award, National First-Place (Features) 2017

  • Society of Professional Journalists, Mark of Excellence Award, Region 11 First-Place (Features) 2017

  • The Guardian, Best Photographs of 2017

  • Broadly, Favorite Stories of 2017

  • Photographer's Forum, Best of Photography Finalist, 2017

  • Society of Professional Journalists, Mark of Excellence Award, National Third-Place (Features) 2016

  • Society of Professional Journalists, Mark of Excellence Award, Region 11 First-Place (Features) 2016

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

  • Society of Professional Journalists

  • Journalism and Women Symposium

  • National Press Photographers Association

REPORTING INTERESTS

Education, Environment, Gender/Sexuality, Health, International

MEDIA PLATFORMS

Narrative Writing, Photojournalism