Karina Piser

Journalist

About

Karina is an independent journalist primarily covering social issues in the U.S. and Europe. She's reported on subjects ranging from public health and food security in the U.S. to religion, gender inequality, and immigration in Europe and beyond. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives in Paris, France.She was previously a reporter at the Food & Environment Reporting Network and an editor at World Politics Review. Her work has been supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Save the Children, the Institute of Current World Affairs, and the Social Science Research Council.She is represented by Maria Whelan at Mushens Entertainment.A selection of articles is below.
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The Nation:
Giving Birth Almost Killed Me. Pregnancy Doesn't Have To Be So Dangerous.
Gender Equality is Driving a Mental Health Crisis in Japan
How Public Schools Became America's Social Safety Net
The Pandemic Has Sent Child Hunger Soaring to Record Levels
The Devastating Emotional Toll of Suspending Prison Visits
In France, Is the #MeToo Movement Passé?
Is France Finally Reckoning With Its Brutal Past?
French Secularism Is in Crisis. What Does That Mean for Muslim Youth?The New Republic:
The Trap Doors and Dead Ends of Trying to Get Treated for Long Covid
Out of Prison With Nowhere Safe to Go
Trump Is Cutting Food Stamps During a PandemicThe New York Times:
My Grandmother’s Lost Cookie RecipeThe Atlantic:
A New Plan to Create an 'Islam of France'
Muslims Recoil at a French Proposal to Change the Quran
France Doesn’t See Race (Officially). A Blackface Performance Challenged That.Foreign Policy:
Cash Can’t Fix Japan’s Fertility Crisis
Aux Armes, Citoyen·nes!
How Marine Le Pen Is Making a Comeback, One French Village at a TimeThe American Prospect:
How Prison Officials Block Access to the MediaMother Jones:
[New York’s Immigrant Bicycle Couriers Are Banding Together to Demand Change[(https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/06/los-deliveristas-unidos-couriers-gig-economy-prop-22-essential-workers-ubereats-doordash-relay/)Washington Post Opinion:
France could finally be on the brink of a #MeToo reckoning
European centrists are tacking right on immigration. It’s a dangerous strategy.Select reports for the Institute of Current World Affairs:
France’s far right eyes the prize
Denmark’s far right has already won on immigration
They made it to France. Now these teens are stuck in limbo
How ‘Je Suis Charlie’ became a rallying cry for the French Republican model
The French school system and the war on radicalization

Contact

For inquiries, please contact me by email at karinadanielle[at]gmail.com.