About

Jill Craig is an American video, radio, and photo journalist with 12 years of experience in multimedia communications and political speechwriting – including more than six years overseas. She has worked as the East Africa correspondent and bureau chief at Voice of America, a video journalist and video editor at the Associated Press, a freelance producer at CNN, and a freelance journalist for other news outlets. Her work focuses on politics, conservation and wildlife, refugees and migrants, education, health, child protection, sanitation, drug use, and human rights.

Jill has covered elections in Nigeria (2011), Kenya (2013 and 2017), Tanzania (2015), and Uganda (2016). She has also covered Pope Francis’ 2015 visit to Kenya and Uganda, the ongoing conflict in South Sudan and resulting refugee influx into Uganda, the effects of the U.S. travel ban upon refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab and Kakuma camps, the Ivory Burn at Nairobi National Park, drought in Central Kenya’s Laikipia region, the heroin problem along Kenya’s coast, and migration into Somaliland.

Working for the Associated Press in Houston, Texas and Washington, D.C., Jill covered the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, the Ebola crisis in Dallas, Kansas’ 2014 senatorial race, the Robert Durst murder saga, and the shooting in Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard, as well as stories focusing on health, energy, and natural disasters.

Jill received her M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and her B.A. in sociology and criminology from The Ohio State University.