Kat Stafford

Kat Stafford is a national investigative writer and global investigations correspondent, focused on race and inequity, at The Associated Press. She investigates how structural racism has fueled inequity in America through the lens of politics, government, health, environmental justice and more. Her journalism journey began when she was a child growing up on Detroit’s east side. Her father was the neighborhood block club association president and the family put together a monthly community newsletter full of news that residents felt went uncovered by local media. She was elected to a two-year term in June 2020 as a Board of Director for the Investigative Reporters and Editors, the industry’s leading nonprofit organization focused on investigative journalism. She is also the chair of IRE’s Member Services Committee and the deputy chair of the NABJ Print Task Force.