Alexis Okeowo, National Fellow, spent her fellowship completing her book, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa, published in 2017. She is a staff writer at the New Yorker, and her work has been anthologized in "The Best American Travel Writing" (2017) and "The Best American Sports Writing" (2017). She has been awarded fellowships and grants from New America, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and the International Reporting Project. She has previously contributed to the Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Financial Times.
