Henderson briefed National Press Foundation fellows in July 2022: Working Through Trauma – Literally. 

Jarrad Henderson is a four-time Emmy-award-winning visual storyteller and multimedia journalist alchemist who helps elevate global brands. After graduating from Arizona State University in 2007 with a degree in photography, Henderson worked in multiple roles, from 7th grade U.S. history teacher to an Apple retail specialist, before eventually returning to school to pursue a master’s in journalism at the University of Missouri as a Thurgood Marshall Fellow. His passion and talent for storytelling soon earned him a staff position with the Detroit Free Press, Michigan’s largest media company, where he worked from 2011 to 2014 as a photographer. For his excellence in the field of photojournalism, Henderson was named the 2014 Multimedia Photographer of the Year by the Michigan Press Photographer Association.

After leaving Detroit to work as a video producer at Virginia Tech, Jarrad returned to journalism in 2016, accepting a position at USA Today, where he currently works as a Senior Multimedia Producer in the Investigations and Enterprise Video unit. In this role, he has had the opportunity to cover the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the 2016 Presidential Election and the Met Gala. For his work on USA Today’s 1619 coverage, Henderson won an Emmy award for his documenting of Wanda Tucker, a 61-year-old African American, who is trying to document an audacious claim: that her family, the Tuckers of Tidewater Virginia, are directly descended from the first child born to the first Africans to arrive on the mainland of English America 400 years ago. He also produced and edited a three-part series on the barrier facing recently released people entitled, “Re-entry Back to Society, or Back to Prison?” which also earned him an Emmy.