FSI Spring Speaker Series 2024 – Patricia Evangelista

FSI Spring Speaker Series 2024 – Patricia Evangelista – Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista is a Journalist covering disaster, conflict, and human rights issues. She was a fellow at the Southeast Asian Press Alliance, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and held a Logan Nonfiction Fellowship. Her reporting on armed conflict as well as on the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan was awarded the Kate Webb Prize for exceptional journalism in dangerous conditions. She was formerly a reporter for the Philippine news agency Rappler , where led the investigative team behind the series “Impunity,” which covered President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. The series received a Human Rights Press Award, three Society of Publishers in Asia Awards, and was a 2018 finalist for the Osborn Elliott Prize for Journalism. She recently wrote a book based on these experiences, Some People Need Killing (Random House).