Molly O'Toole
Molly O’Toole (2022) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter based in Washington, D.C. She is an immigration and security reporter for The Los Angeles Times, and recently was the distinguished visiting journalist at Cornell University. Previously, she was a senior reporter at Foreign Policy covering the 2016 election and Trump administration, a politics reporter at the Atlantic’s Defense One and a news editor at the Huffington Post. She has covered migration and security from Mexico, Central America, West Africa, the Middle East, the Gulf and South Asia for the Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, New Republic, Newsweek, Associated Press and others. She was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting in 2020 with the staff of “This American Life” and Emily Green of Vice for the “Out Crowd,” investigating the personal impact of the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy on asylum officers and asylum seekers. She was also a 2020 finalist for the Livingston Awards for excellence in international reporting. She is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University.
At the Logan Nonfiction fellowship, Molly will be working on her book “The Route,” a narrative of the new migrant underground, a deadly gauntlet for refugees from around the world that stretches from Brazil to the U.S.-Mexico border. The book is to be published by Crown, a division of Random House.