Kari Cobham is the director of fellowships at The 19th, leading the groundbreaking Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellowship, which seeks to create meaningful pipelines for those historically excluded from U.S. newsrooms. She was previously the senior associate director of The Carter Center’s Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism and Media, where she managed the program in the United States and abroad. She was previously a staff writer, executive producer and senior manager of digital content for Cox Media Group newsrooms.

Cobham has bylines in The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, CNN, Vox, Poynter, Trinidad Guardian, Caribbean Beat and SHE magazines, and others. She is a TEDx speaker on mental health and holds a master’s degree in mass communications from the University of Central Florida and a bachelor’s degree in public relations and advertising from Bethune-Cookman University. She is based in Atlanta, Georgia.