Jessie Graham is a multimedia journalist who tells human stories about global issues. She is currently Senior Multimedia Producer at Human Rights Watch, where she creates audio, multimedia and video programming about human rights issues around the world. Jessie has reported for BBC/PRI's The World from Iran, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo Bay, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Liberia, as well as throughout the United States. She taught radio reporting at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and she has led workshops for local radio broadcasters in Ivory Coast. In 2005, Jessie created a training program for Iraqi radio journalists at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in Iraq.

Previously, she was a reporter at WNYC Radio and a staff writer at the New York Post. Jessie has contributed to National Public Radio programs including Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Day to Day. She reported from Uganda and Rwanda through a grant from the International Reporting Project and she traveled to Iran through the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She's filed print and multimedia stories for Nextbook, FRONTLINE/World, Salon, Newsday, Yoga Journal and Psychology Today.

Jessie has a B.A. in English and African-American Studies from Wesleyan University and a master's degree in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.