About

Cecilia Nowell is a writer and reporter interested in global and local stories about gender, economic hardship, conflict, and human rights. Her work has been published by The Guardian, The Nation, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, Teen Vogue, KFF Health News, Lux, and others. In 2022, she was recognized as a Livingston Award finalist in national reporting for her coverage of a California mother serving an 11-year prison sentence after a stillbirth.

Cecilia has been a grantee with the Journalism & Women Symposium Health Journalism Fellowship, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship, the Association of Health Care Journalist’s International Health Study Fellowship, and the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Women on the Ground: Reporting from Ukraine’s Unseen Frontlines program. She has completed Hostile Environment and First Aid Training with the International Women’s Media Foundation in 2020 and 2023, and work in war conditions training with the 2402 Foundation in 2025. She has reported from Chile, Argentina, Sweden, Poland and Ukraine.

Cecilia holds a bachelor’s in comparative literature and political science from Wellesley College and a master’s in journalism and international relations from New York University.

In her free time, Cecilia knits, weaves and spins yarn, practices yoga, and courts neighborhood cats. Cecilia has spent her adult life based in many places – but her heart will always belong in New Mexico.