Lottie Joiner

Lottie Joiner is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience covering issues that impact underserved and marginalized communities. As editor of The Crisis magazine, the official publication of the NAACP, she led coverage of social justice issues, Black history, African American art and culture. Her work has been published in a number of media outlets including The Washington Post, USA Today, The Daily Beast, Time.com and TheAtlantic.com.

A 2016 graduate of Yale University’s Thread at Yale Media Storytelling program, Lottie was a 2015 Center for Health Journalism Fellow at the University of Southern California at Annenberg and in 2017 she was named a Schuster Institute/Fund for Investigative Journalism Diversity Fellow. In 2019, Lottie was named a Pulitzer Center grantee and a Folio 100 Honoree, which recognizes the top innovators in publishing. Most recently Lottie was named a Maynard 200 Fellow in its 2021 Executive Leadership Program. In addition, Lottie is a board member of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She is also co-captain of the Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) DC region.