Bruce Wallace

Bruce Wallace is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist and multimedia producer.

Bruce Wallace is a producer at Gimlet Media. He has reported for PRI’s The World, Radio Diaries, All Things Considered, Marketplace Morning Report, The New York Times Magazine, Al Jazeera America, and The Washington Post.He was born in Baltimore and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and cat.

Aung San Suu Kyi downplays anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar

July 30, 2016Politics

Speaking in the capital of Naypyidaw, the opposition leader said a rising 969 movement did not represent the majority of Buddhists.

The face of Target (and others) in Bangladesh, at 400 pieces an hour

February 24, 2016Business

The Muslim who leads a branch of a Jewish lobbying group

August 27, 2015Education

Most Bangladeshi garment workers are women, but their union leaders weren’t. Until now.

August 26, 2015Business

Letieres Leite and his Orchestra Rumpilezz play at Lincoln Center's "Out Of Doors" in New York City.

Brazilian orchestra fuses Afro beats with a little Duke

August 7, 2015Culture

At one Baltimore school, students are easing racial tensions by learning from each other

August 5, 2015Education

One year after a burst of violent attacks, Digital Harbor High launched a program to bring Latino and African-American students together.

Last month around 100 activists associated with Justice League NYC and other civil rights groups marched down historic US Route 1 through Baltimore as participants in an event named #MARCH2JUSTICE.

How African Americans and immigrants in Baltimore find common ground in police reform

May 14, 2015Conflict

When protests broke out in Baltimore, some immigrants there saw connections — how their relationships with police are similar to the relationships between cops and African Americans.

Grace Lyo at one of the markets she runs in West Baltimore.

In Baltimore, neighborhoods come together across cultural lines

May 8, 2015Conflict

A lot of the news crews have left Baltimore, but the city is still recovering. One Korean American shopkeeper thanks her customers for rallying by her side. “I will love my neighbors…forever,” she says.

Neglecting Baltimore: My story, too

May 1, 2015Justice

Bruce Wallace grew up in Baltimore. But it wasn’t until he was an adult that he ventured to Freddie Gray’s neighborhood, to volunteer at a family shelter. “I can’t overemphasize how close, geographically, these two Baltimores are.”

For Nepalese abroad, ‘you feel so helpless being so far away’

April 27, 2015Culture

In New York City, home to one of the largest Nepalese communities in the US, crowds gathered after the earthquake in Nepal to pray, gather donations and hope for good news from relatives still unaccounted for.