Treezer Michelle Atieno

Treezer Michelle Atieno is an award-winning global health journalist, producer, and a 2025 CNN Academy Fellow under the Storytelling in the Global South program. Accredited by the Media Council of Kenya, she has contributed to The Continent, Mail & Guardian, Science Africa, and One World Media, among others. She is currently a full-time editor and creative consultant.

In 2021, she received her first award, the Social Justice in Science Award by UNESCO and the World Federation of Science Journalists, during the World Science Forum in Cape Town, South Africa. She has since won the UN Foundation Polio Press Fellowship (Best Fellow 2024), Global Short Docs Health Solutions Fellowship and the 30 under 30 African Investigative Journalism Award 2024 for her investigative reporting on polio eradication in conflict zones in Kano, Nigeria.

She has worked with the Gates Foundation, UNESCO, UN Foundation and Safaricom Foundation and has reported from Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa.

Her vision is to see young writers produce original, authentic community stories, grow in skills, and be able to market and even earn from their art.