Julie Brown

Member of the Miami-Herald's Pulitzer-Prize winning I-Team, the oldest in the nation Winner of the 2015 George Polk Award for justice reporting, the Leonard Weinglass in Defense of Civil Liberties Award; the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Justice Reporting and numerous others As an investigative reporter, exposed civil rights abuses, police and political corruption; worked on stories about a steroid scandal that led to the downfall of New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez; had exclusive interview with the father of a Navy Seal who was killed in Yemen (the first under President Trump); covered the shootings at the Fort Lauderdale airport (my photographs ran around the world); and have the two most read stories in Miamiherald.com history; Exposed inmate abuse and suspicious deaths in the Florida prison system, the third-largest in the nation, with more than 100,000 inmates. The three-year project led to an overhaul of the agency, including the resignations of the secretary and inspector general, the firings and arrests of corrections officers, millions of dollars in reforms and sweeping changes in the treatment of mentally ill, disabled and female prisoners. (http://hrld.us/cruel-and-unusual http:// hrld.us/beyond-punishment) Worked collaboratively with graphics, photo and visual journalists to produce content for online pieces and mini documentaries Appear as a commentator on national and local television news programs Worked as a consultant on a TV movie about the murders of the heirs to the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach