UMass Amherst Journalism Department to Host Talk by Washington Post Journalist Claire Healy

The University of Massachusetts Amherst department of journalism will host a talk by Washington Post journalist Claire Healy on Monday, March 25 at 2:30 p.m. in the Journalism Hub of the Integrative Learning Center, Room S414. The talk will be moderated by Senior Lecturer of Journalism Razvan Sibii. The event is free and open to the public.

Healy, who earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from UMass Amherst in 2021, was part of an investigative team at The Post that published a series on the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of more than 30,000 bones and other body parts. The series examines the museum’s “racial brain collection,” how the remains were collected and the anthropologist behind the collection.

Before joining The Post, Healy was a freelance journalist covering human rights, social movements and international relations. She also founded The Open, an international multilingual magazine featuring news, essays, art and poetry in Arabic, English and Spanish.

The talk is sponsored by the journalism and political science departments at UMass Amherst.