Kat Stafford is the Global Race and Justice Editor for Reuters, where she leads agenda-setting coverage of race, identity and social justice across the newsroom. Prior to joining Reuters, Kat was a national investigative race writer and global investigations correspondent at the Associated Press. She has received several awards for her work, including the Wayne State University’s 2024 Spirit of Diversity award and the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s 2023 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism. She was a 2022 Knight-Wallace fellow, where she published a five-part investigative series examining how health inequities have impacted generations of Black Americans.

Stafford briefed National Press Foundation fellows in October 2024: Amplify Community Voices to Tell Stories of Health Inequity.