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Amy Bracken

Amy Bracken is a Boston-based independent reporter and radio producer. She mostly covers migration and all things Haitian but has also reported on religion and human rights, and she likes exploring the history behind current events. She is a graduate of Columbia School of Journalism and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Three people seated in chairs on a stage in front of a curtain, engaged in a discussion, with one man holding a microphone and the woman wearing red boots.
Arts, Culture & Media
At a time of crisis for Haiti, a filmmaker reflects on past US intervention
6:45
The US’s forgotten occupation of Haiti
6:45
A person in historical clothing stands in front of a group of people gathered outside two stone buildings on a snowy day.
History
How Haitian ordnance wound up in the Adirondack Mountains
7:52
The United States’ most famous cannon display comes from the Caribbean
7:52
Sacred Nation
In Haiti, a pastor helps his shattered community heal
9:15
Haitian church houses internally displaced people
9:15
an anti-poacher billboard
Economics
A rhino warrior experiments with peace
A group of young Haitians are shown sitting around a table in a room without glass in the windows.
Protest
Meet the Petrochallengers: A new generation wants to bring accountability to Haiti. Can they succeed?
A woman is shown walking down a cement staircase in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Immigration
A family split between the US and Haiti dreads looming loss of legal status
Woman standing in front of poster
Business, Economics and Jobs
Want to see where immigration policy changes put workers at risk? Go to Harvard.
Student speaks to crowd at a protest
Media
How foreign correspondents in the US cover mass shootings for their overseas audiences
the Afghanistan Women's National soccer team poses in uniform
Culture
American coach of Afghan women’s soccer team has one goal: Hope
young people seated in grass around a cross
Media
Russian bots seize on Parkland shooting to amplify messages
Actor Lupita Nyong'o posing in front of a giant Black Panther backdrop
Arts
‘Black Panther’ premiers in Lupita Nyong’o’s hometown
Rokhaya Diallo speaking on a panel below a screen that says in French, 'call for a multicultural and postracial republic'
Culture
Activist ousted from French advisory council says race talk is still taboo
collapsed house in ravine with lake and mountains in background
Culture
Is it ethical to vacation in places devastated by disaster?
People protest to call for a new DREAM Act to replace DACA in Los Angeles, California, Jan.17, 2018.
Conflict
Fear, not ‘laziness’, is one reason some immigrants haven’t applied for DACA
Man on a boat lifting a young child to hand to rescuers
Economics
A year after the Italy-Libya migrant deal: Fewer deaths at sea but persistent abuse on land
At the headquarters of Kouraj, a prominent LGBT rights group in Haiti. Outside, the office is unmarked.
Sexuality
Why it’s gotten harder for LGBT people in Haiti since the earthquake
a man standing before a ravine and waterfall in Yellowstone National Park.
Conflict
A Syrian with Temporary Protected Status says it’s a matter of life or death
Corinne Joachim Sanon went back to Haiti to start a business, and she located her business, Askanya Chcolatiers, in the house where her grandmother grew up.
Business
Eight years after the earthquake, a different taste of Haiti
woman selling eggs
Economics
Haiti has a chicken-and-egg problem
Many of the employees at the Home Port restaurant on Martha's Vineyard are from Jamaica. But this year, the owner couldn't get the visas she needed. So she's short on staff. "We're closing two days a week for dinner. I've never had to do that before."
Jobs
For businesses that boom in the summer, Trump’s H-2B visa expansion is too little too late
Mona (left) with Elvira Gordillo Rivera in Rivera's garden in Comalapa, Mexico.
Justice
A former trafficking victim gets her life back in southern Mexico
River
Economics
Some migrants are rethinking the US as their ultimate destination
Woman holds up sign that readers "In solidarity with those on hunger strike"
Justice
Here’s how private prisons are being challenged, even as they scale up
Ramirez
Business
Mexico’s ‘Mama Africa’ welcomes migrants on a long journey
A congregation at the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church and Community in Berlin.
Conflict
This evangelical church in Berlin is helping Iranians looking for asylum
Haiti
Conflict
Here are the real lessons from flawed responses to Haiti’s disasters
Retired military officers, from left, Luis Alberto Paredes, Byron Humberto Barrientos, Ismael Segura Abularach, Benedicto Lucas, Gustavo Alonzo Rosales and Carlos Augusto Garavito sit in a cage
Conflict
Why you need to know about Guatemala’s civil war
Feliciana Bernal
Conflict
This interpreter is helping get justice for Indigenous women raped and tortured in Guatemala’s civil war
Salvaging Haiti's cacao crop after Hurricane Matthew
Development
Haitian cacao farmers scramble to get their ‘success story’ back on track
Ertha Papillon
Development
With no public officials in sight, a local Haitian leader takes matters into her own hands
Port Salut
Justice
A once-dreamy Haitian beach town picks up the pieces after Hurricane Matthew
Women attend an evangelical church service in Almolonga, Guatemala.
Development
Did religion save this Guatemalan town?
Women attend an evangelical church service in Almolonga, Guatemala.
Development
Did religion save this Guatemalan town?
Agence France-Presse
Some Haitians fleeing the Dominican Republic are finding themselves pulled back
'A wide variety of churches now dot the misty landscape of Guatemala's Western Highlands.'
Belief
Did war change Guatemala’s faith?
A US shipment of peanuts to Haiti
Development
The US wants to give peanuts to malnourished Haitian kids. Why is that a problem?
Manuel sought help from the migration project after his daughter was injured in a car accident on her way north to the US.
Development
The Migration Project helps Guatemalan families find missing loved ones
Deivis Ventura at a restaurant in Harlem.
Global Politics
This human rights activist wants to be the Dominican Republic’s first openly gay member of Congress
The Ricord's iguana, which lives only on the island of Hispaniola, was thought to be extinct in Haiti until a small population was discovered in the southeastern corner of the country eight years ago. Now the three foot-long lizard is the subject of a rar
Environment
Where human life is precarious, Haitians look out for a rare Iguana
Christella Saintime sits with her 6-week-old baby, several feet from the Dominican Republic. She fled to Haiti when she was 5 months pregnant.
Economics
Some Haitians fleeing the Dominican Republic are finding themselves pulled back
Migrant children board a bus outside the Notre Dame de Lourdes School in Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti, to return to their shelters after morning classes.
Education
Here’s a Haitian school struggling to absorb desperate migrants
Marie Conce Moreau with her son outside their home in Village la Difference. Moreau took a job at the nearby industrial park when her husband lost his job. They also make ends meet by donning the blue and red aprons to sell phone cards.
Development
‘Women aren’t a broom to be left in the corner’
A 5th grade class at the Matenwa Community School in Haiti
Education
This village school in Haiti helped propel a national movement to teach kids in Creole
Behind this tangle of barbed wire in the Place d'Armes in Gonaives, a boy was sexually assaulted by UN peacekeepers, according to a UN investigation.
Justice
The UN let off peacekeepers involved in a Haitian boy’s rape
A United Nations peacekeeper stands guard are Haitians gather to see U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visit the village of Los Palmas.
Conflict
Haitian moms demand UN help for the babies their peacekeepers left behind
Dominican students
Global Politics
Dominicans argue over a court ruling that strips citizenship from many born in the country
Betzeida Perez Pierre was born in the Dominican Republic, as were her parents and their parents. Now she can't attend university because her Dominican citizenship has been canceled.
Conflict & Justice
What happens when your government tells you you’re no longer a citizen?
The elegant lobby at the El Rancho is open to the air.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Does Haiti really need luxury hotels?
Conflict & Justice
Volunteers keep watch, ease isolation of immigrant detainees
Carmine Pierre calls her 11-year-old son Marc Kelly in Haiti. She hasn't seen him since he was five. (Photo: Amy Bracken)
Conflict & Justice
Why Some Haitians Are Still Waiting on Family-based Visas to Come to the US
Global Nation
How Volunteers Keep Watch, Ease Isolation of Immigrant Detainees
Global Politics
Immigrants, legal groups allege harsh treatment at U.S. border
Conflict & Justice
Abuse at the Border? Immigrants and Legal Groups Allege Harsh Treatment
Conflict & Justice
Asylum Seekers in Texas Celebrate US Independence Day