Henrick Karoliszyn is an award-winning journalist and Doctor of Social Work (DSW). A former national correspondent at the New York Daily News, he covered criminal justice as a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the New York Post, Newsweek, Aeon Magazine, and the Rolling Stone Magazine commemorative book, “Cover to Cover: the First 40 Years.”

His exclusive story about the Caramel Curves, the all-female motorcycle club in New Orleans, led to a series with the group on VICE and a collaboration with Rihanna in 2021. His work has been recognized with a National Association of Black Journalists award, a National Headliner award, and Society of Silurians journalism award. He is also the recipient of a Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Affairs Journalism at The Ohio State University, a Tow Foundation Juvenile Justice Reporting Fellowship at the Center on Media, Crime, and Justice at John Jay College, and a Journalist Law School Fellowship at LMU Loyola Law School.

His reporting was nominated by editors to the Pulitzer Board for his coverage of Occupy Wall Street and the Sandy Hook mass shooting. He received his DSW in 2025 from the University of Southern California and focused his capstone research on the effects of secondary trauma on the American freelance journalist population. He lives in New Orleans.

Karoliszyn briefed National Press Foundation fellows in November 2025: The Cost of Bearing Witness: Mental Health, Trauma, and the Weight Journalists Carry.