Amy Bracken
Amy Bracken is a Boston-based independent reporter and radio producer. She mostly covers migration and all things Haitian but has also reported on religion and human rights, and she likes exploring the history behind current events. She is a graduate of Columbia School of Journalism and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Recent Stories
Business
The World
April 19, 2017
An unmarked hotel along the Mexico-Guatemala border has become a frequent stop for weary migrants from parts of Africa and Haiti heading north.
Conflict
The World
February 22, 2017
Some of the Iranian Christians in Berlin have been refused asylum elsewhere and need a place to hang out for six months until they can apply for asylum in Germany.
Conflict
The World
January 12, 2017
The earthquake that rocked Haiti seven years ago, today, and Hurricane Matthew, in October, are two completely different disasters — one urban, the other, rural; one arriving without warning, the other, visible in the distance — but both amounted to enormous humanitarian crises and offer great lessons for relief efforts.
Conflict
The World
December 29, 2016
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the conclusion of the conflict, but people are still putting the pieces back together.
Conflict
The World
December 12, 2016
December 2016 marks two decades since the signing of the Guatemalan peace accords. It officially ended a 36-year domestic armed conflict in which an estimated 200,000 people were killed and many more tortured and raped. Bringing war crimes perpetrators to justice has been slow, with convictions appealed and cases stalled. But many see victory in the trials themselves, and in their growing involvement of women.
Development
The World
November 18, 2016
Hurricane Matthew devastated cacao trees at the heart of Haiti's burgeoning cocoa export business.
Development
October 24, 2016
She's sheltering hundreds of neighbors in her house, running a school and orphanage, and trying to get clean water to those in need.
Justice
The World
October 17, 2016
What it means to be lucky in the aftermath of a brutal storm.
Development
The World
August 26, 2016
Guatemala is reported to be the most evangelical country in the Americas. And, according to the Pew Research Center, it has the highest rate of believers that faith reaps success. Almolonga, a small mountain town, is held up as proof.
Belief
The World
June 30, 2016
You can trace evangelicalism in Guatemala to American missionaries who went to help out after an earthquake in 1976. But that doesn't explain its explosion in the decades since. The civil war might though.
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