Brandi Kellam

Brandi Kellam is a two-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary film director. Her work has also earned a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media, Columbia University’s Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award, and top honors from the Education Writers Association, including the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting.

Kellam’s work has been featured by MSNBC, NBC News, CBS News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, ESSENCE, and BET. In 2021, she received a reporting grant from Columbia University’s Lipman Center, which she used to launch her investigation into housing injustice in Virginia.

Kellam has taught graduate-level courses on multimedia storytelling at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she earned a master’s degree in broadcast and digital journalism. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.