Brooke Williams

Brooke is a veteran award winning investigative reporter who specializes in data-driven methods. She is currently a contributor to The New York Times and inewsource, a nonprofit investigative journalism center in San Diego. Her work has appeared in many outlets such as the Center for Public Integrity, the San Diego Union-Tribune, KPBS, ABC World News and the New Republic. She wrote a chapter in "The Buying of the President 2004," a national bestseller, and built the first nationwide database of allegations local prosecutorial misconduct in 2002 to help report and write "Harmful Error: Investigating America's local prosecutors." Williams work to hold the powerful accountable has prompted multiple investigations, including a federal criminal probe into contractors hired to haul away debris after wildfires ravaged San Diego County in 2007. She won the George Polk Award in 2004 and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2005 and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 2012. Brooke is currently a journalism fellow at Harvard, where she is investigating think tanks, building the first database to track money they receive from corporations and foreign governments, as well as launching a nationwide, data-driven investigation of federal prosecutors.