Kate Woodsome
Senior Producer
Kate Woodsome is an award-winning journalistĀ studying the relationship between mental health and democracy. As a writer, filmmaker and media reformer, she is exposing the social and political forces ā and narratives ā that keep people isolated and unwell.
While atĀ The Washington Post, Woodsome won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with colleagues covering the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, pioneered a mental health column and managed a short documentary unit. Her work has been honored with the Ben Bradlee Award for Courage in Journalism, an Edward R. Murrow Award and honors from the White House News Photographers Association.Ā
Woodsome leftĀ The PostĀ in Dec. 2023, no longer willing to normalize the burnout, trauma and moral injury pervasive in the industry.Ā SheĀ founded the Invisible Threads Project, dedicated toĀ the belief that a more educated, empathetic electorate can create the conditions for collective wellbeing. She pursues this mission throughĀ trauma-informed storytelling workshops for personal and systemic change,Ā educational initiatives and theĀ Invisible ThreadsĀ Substack exposing the ties between personal and political health. Woodsome is also a fellow at Georgetown University, dedicated to efforts to transform cycles of intergenerational trauma into cycles of intergenerational wellbeing.Ā This chapter deepens work that Woodsome has done for more than two decades ā from reporting on an authoritarian regime in post-genocide Cambodia, to the decline of democracy in Hong Kong, to the 2021 U.S. insurrection.
