Ali Watkins, of Brooklyn, NY, is a journalist at the New York Times. She was recognized as a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for a series of articles that exposed the CIA’s attempted cover-up of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the agency’s post 9-11 torture programme. She was also recognized by the News Leaders Association as part of a package of reporting that examined police brutality, impunity, and use of force. Currently based in NUI Galway, Ali has been writing and researching a journalistic non-fiction project about ties between the Irish American diaspora and Irish rebel groups, during the period following the War of Independence through the Troubles
