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.

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Development

The US wants to give peanuts to malnourished Haitian kids. Why is that a problem?

PRI's The World

May 10, 2016

Updated

05/11/2016 - 1:00pm

Who could quibble with the US giving malnourished Haitian schoolchildren a shipment of US peanuts? There's history here, and a reason for suspicion.

Development

The Migration Project helps Guatemalan families find missing loved ones

PRI's The World

May 05, 2016

In Zacualpa, Guatemala, some residents can't resist the gamble of taking out a loan and heading north. But they don't all make it and some go missing. Now help is at hand.

Global Politics

This human rights activist wants to be the Dominican Republic's first openly gay member of Congress

PRI's The World

April 13, 2016

Deivis Ventura is the first openly gay candidate running for Congress in the Dominican Republic. An aide calls him "a shock to the brain of the DR’s conservative society.”

Environment

Where human life is precarious, Haitians look out for a rare Iguana

PRI's The World

February 04, 2016

In a country that's seen more than its share of human hardship over the years, a rare iguana is the focus of a rare conservation effort, run by an unlikely leader.

Agence France-Presse

Some Haitians fleeing the Dominican Republic are finding themselves pulled back

GlobalPost

January 16, 2016

A world away from Europe, another migration crisis is playing out.

Economics

Some Haitians fleeing the Dominican Republic are finding themselves pulled back

PRI's The World

January 12, 2016

Many Haitian migrants fled the Dominican Republic under threat of violence. But some continue to commute back across the border because they can't make a living in Haiti.

Education

Here's a Haitian school struggling to absorb desperate migrants

PRI's The World

January 08, 2016

Updated

01/08/2016 - 4:00pm

Thousands of Haitians who lived and worked in the Dominican Republic have fled across the border under threat of deportation or violence. Many are taking shelter in makeshift camps. At one school near the border, teachers are struggling to teach the children of these uprooted migrants along with the rest of their student population.

Development

'Women aren’t a broom to be left in the corner'

PRI's The World

January 12, 2015

At Haiti's Village la Difference, residents enjoy amenities — and access to factory jobs — that few people in post-earthquake Haiti are able to get. But a group of women in the village are pushing for more better jobs, more self-sufficiency and a larger role for women in society.

Education

This village school in Haiti helped propel a national movement to teach kids in Creole

The World in Words

December 22, 2014

French has long been the language of education in Haiti, despite the fact that few Haitians actually speak it. But while their native tongue, Creole, was once disdained as merely broken French, there's now a movement to make it the centerpiece of teaching on the island.

Justice

The UN let off peacekeepers involved in a Haitian boy's rape

PRI's The World

October 02, 2014

The UN says it has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to UN peacekeepers and sexual abuse. But when a 14-year-old Haitian boy was abused by Pakistani peacekeepers, the UN did little to bring his case to justice in Haitian courts.

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