Kristi Eaton

kristi.eaton@gmail.com
Kristieaton.com
Twitter, Instagram & Skype: @kristieaton (verified Twitter account)

EXPERIENCE
Independent journalist
2009 to present
-Focus on womens issues, indigenous issues, travel, civil rights and breaking news from countries around the world,
including India, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, the United States, Mexico and elsewhere
-Pitch, report and write stories for clients including The Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, The
Guardian, Marie Claire, Al Jazeera America, Ms. Magazine and other international and national outlets
-Recipient of 2017 International Reporting Project fellowship grant to report on womens rights issues from India

Author & blogger | The History Press

Oklahoma, USA | 2013 to present
-Pitched, reported, wrote and took pictures for book about the people, places and events that shaped Oklahomas Main
Streets. The History Press released The Main Streets of Oklahoma: Okie Stories from Every County in fall 2014.
-Photographed and documented Main Streets throughout the United States at mainstreetamericaphotos.tumblr.com
-Hold book talks and signings throughout the state of Oklahoma

Reporter & photographer | The Associated Press

Oklahoma City & Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA | 2011 to 2014
-Covered Native American tribes, rural America, breaking news, politics and anything quirky and offbeat
-Images published in media outlets around the world, including BuzzFeed, Australian Associated Press and the Los
Angeles Times
-Educated and engaged through regular posts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
-Appeared periodically on national television networks and local radio stations to discuss stories

Reporter | The Saipan Tribune

Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands | 2008 to 2009
-Covered the Legislature, the Governors Office, the Public School System and the utilities corporation for the daily
paper
-Wrote extensively about the islands' ongoing power crisis and transition to federal immigration and labor laws using
public records requests

Reporter | Divided Families

Arizona State University | 2007
-Traveled to the Arizona-Mexico border, Guadalajara and Veracruz to report and write two in-depth pieces on families
divided by the border
Editor-in-chief, city editor, reporter, magazine writer | The State Press
Arizona State University | 2004 to 2007
-Edited and planned content for the daily paper. I managed a staff of approximately 50 students for the daily print
newspaper that had a print circulation of 18,000.

AWARDS
International Reporting Project fellowship to report on womens rights issues from India, 2017
Associated Press: Best of States, Beat of the Week honorable mentions, Breaking News Staffer of the Month, 2011-
2014
Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists, multiple awards in magazine writing, 2011
Great Plains Journalism Awards, multiple awards in magazine writing, 2011
Parenting Publications of America, Gold award in feature writing for my first-person account of childhood battle with
anorexia, 2010
Pulliam Journalism Fellowship, 2007
Arizona State University: Deans List, Charles Stauffer Memorial Scholarship, Sun Devil Academic Scholarship, Arizona
Press Club Scholarship, 2004-2008

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism and Mass Communication, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass
Communication at Arizona State University, May 2008
Photography and Italian language courses, American Institute for Foreign Study in Rome, Italy, Spring 2008

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
UNICEF Communication Officer/United Nations Volunteer in Indonesia, 2016
Spanish study in Guatemala, 2015
Volunteer communications & fundraising officer at the Cambodian Womens Development Agency in Cambodia, 2015
Freelance travel and news writing in Thailand, Myanmar, Guatemala, Portugal, Greece, Antigua, 2009 to present
Living and working on Saipan with frequent travel to Asia and throughout the Pacific Rim, 2008 to 2009
Study abroad in Italy and travel throughout Western Europe, 2008
Semester reporting class with frequent trips to Mexico, 2007

WORKSHOPS
Breaking news and source development, The Associated Press, 2012-2013, Chicago and Phoenix
UNESCO Pacific Climate Change Roundtable for media representatives, 2008, Apia, Samoa

VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE
United Nations Volunteer in Indonesia, 2016
Communications and fundraising officer at the Cambodian Womens Development Agency in Cambodia, 2015
Created content for Curbside Chronicle, a street newspaper to end homelessness, in Oklahoma City, 2014
Mentored Bhutanese refugees in South Dakota, 2011-2013