Kate Woodsome
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kate Woodsome is studying the relationship between mental health and democracy through her new endeavor, Invisible Threads, the only weekly newsletter dedicated to unraveling the ties between the two. As a columnist, filmmaker and knowledge leader, she is exposing the social and political forces — and stories — keeping people isolated and unwell. Why? Because she believes an educated, empathetic electorate can and will create the conditions for collective wellbeing.
At The Washington Post, Kate won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with colleagues for their coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. She pioneered a mental health column and managed a short documentary film unit, too. As an editor, journalist and producer, Kate also has been honored with the Ben Bradlee Award for Courage in Journalism, an Edward R. Murrow Award and honors from the White House News Photographers Association. She left The Post in Dec. 2023.
Kate is a non-resident Fellow with Georgetown University’s research and design unit, The Red House. Her work focuses primarily on multidisciplinary efforts to transform cycles of intergenerational trauma into intergenerational wellbeing. This new chapter deepens work Kate has invested in for more than two decades — from reporting on an authoritarian regime in post-genocide Cambodia, to the decline of democracy in Hong Kong, to the 2021 U.S. insurrection.