Colette Holcomb

Colette Yamashita Holcomb is a multimedia journalist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently, she spent a year interning for MS NOW’s audio unit. Before, she worked on podcasts at the Council on Foreign Relations, covered the business of media and technology for the Observer, and tracked press freedom for the International Press Institute. She is a graduate of the dual-degree program between Columbia University and Sciences Po, with a specialization in the SWANA region. She holds a B.A. in human rights from Columbia and a B.A. in political humanities and law from Sciences Po. At Columbia, she covered university news at the Columbia Daily Spectator. At Sciences Po, she was co-copy chief of the Menton Times and a United Nations Millennium fellow, where she worked on a collective research project examining illegal activities and human rights violations on the Franco-Italian border. While at Stanford, she is excited to expand her data and investigative journalism skills to use public data in shaping storytelling. When not chasing down a story, she enjoys literary fiction, cooking, and live music of all kinds.