Video Storytelling for Social Media

Marisa Palmer is currently a master's degree candidate in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. She comes to the program from a decade-long career as an award-winning video journalist with a focus on criminal justice and policing. As a journalist, Palmer is a listener at heart. She is captivated by experiences, stories, and projects that evoke empathy for people often misunderstood. Palmer was most recently a producer for Vice News' domestic documentary unit, where she explored stories about race, politics, and environmental injustice. Prior to Vice News, Palmer was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where she studied the effects of police training programs in the US and began developing a database that ranked training programs by quality, efficacy, and accessibility. Before Harvard, Palmer was a senior video producer for Business Insider's News and Documentary team, where she helped launch Facebook's first digital daily news program. Palmer won a Telly award for her reporting on Baltimore's police training programs, a National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Salute to Excellence award for a report on the making of Juneteenth into a federal holiday, and two Emmys for assisted reporting. Before arriving at Business Insider, Palmer worked for CBS News. She was formerly a board member for the New York Association of Black Journalists, an Emma Bowen Fellow, and a Hearst Producing Fellow. She is an alum of Syracuse University and holds a dual bachelors degree from SI Newhouse School of Public Communications and The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.