Stokely Baksh is a multimedia-investigative journalist, graphic designer and a 2010 Soros Justice Fellow based in the Washington D.C. area. She has worked as a freelance video reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, and for the technology and business desks at United Press International. She is wrapping up a post-graduate fellowship at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, where she reported on lax record keeping by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Before that she co-produced the project BusinessofDetention.com about the outsourcing of immigrant detention, which was nominated for a 2009 Webby. At age 20, Baksh went to Guyana, not to be mistaken for Ghana, where she researched death squads. Her work has also appeared in Mother Jones, Indymedia, and The New Republic. She is a graduate of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Current Project: Baksh has teamed up with Renee Feltz to collaborate on Deportation Nation. This is the third multimedia investigative project for the duo which critically examines the increase in detention of innocent and low-level immigrant offenders as a result of enforcement programs mandated to target “dangerous criminal aliens.” It specifically focuses on the Secure Communities program. They first collaborated on The Business of Detention while students at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. The project won the Melvin Mencher Award for Superior Reporting and the James A. Wechsler Award for National Reporting. It was also a 2009 Webby and SxSW Interactive award finalist. Mother Jones featured one of its videos, and its print portion was updated for a NACLA Report on the Americas cover story.