Annie Hylton

Annie Hylton is an award-winning investigative journalist and magazine writer from Canada. Through long-form narrative writing, she seeks to create empathy and illustrate the human stakes behind key policy debates. She writes about gender, migration, human rights, and conflict, and has worked in the Middle East, Central America, and Africa, among others. She writes for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New Republic, London Review of Books, Esquire UK, The Walrus, and many others.

She is a Canadian National Magazine Award winner and a Visiting Scholar at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She teaches investigative journalism at Sciences Po Paris and is trained as an international lawyer. She graduated from Columbia University’s Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and holds a J.D. and Master of Laws in international humanitarian law and human rights. She is represented by the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency.

Education

• Master of Laws - LLM Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
• Bachelor’s Degree McGill University
• Juris Doctor (J.D.) University of Saskatchewan

Companies

• Associate Professor Sciences Po Paris (2018)
• Writer and Editor Freelance (2013)
• Fellowship Alicia Patterson Foundation (2020 — 2021)
• Executive in Residence Geneva Centre for Security Policy (2020 — 2020)
• Reporting fellowship Thomson Reuters Foundation (2019 — 2019)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism (2017 — 2017)
• Fellow International Reporting Project (2017 — 2017)
• Gender and Migration fellow Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (2016 — 2016)
• Freelance Consultant The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (2015 — 2015)