About
Alice is a reporter based in New York City.
She grew up in Italy and lived in New Mexico, India, Benin, Egypt, Palestine and Haiti.
While studying at Columbia Journalism School, Alice covered Southeast Queens and the South Bronx. As an undergrad, she studied comparative literature and government at Harvard University. Alice has interned at Al Jazeera English, covering the United Nations, at The New Yorker, working on Talk of the Town, at The New York Times, writing for City Room, and on the metro desk of The Star-Ledger, in Newark. She will spend the summer of 2012 at the London bureau of The Wall Street Journal.
Alice has also lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where she covered the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake for The Haitian Times, AFP, The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. She returns to Haiti frequently and is available for writing assignments there as well as in the New York area. You can see some of her work from Haiti here.
When not chasing a story, Alice can be found at the NYU library, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature, with a focus on class, race and resistance in the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas.
Alice is pronounced a-lee-chay [aˈliːtʃɛ] like Muhammad Ali and Che Guevara.
See Alice’s resume. Read Alice’s work.
Countries visited:
Austria, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burma, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Montenegro, Nepal, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Palestine, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, and the United States.