Jessie Williams

Jessie Williams is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on global current affairs, humanitarian issues, women’s rights, migration, culture, and politics—with the aim of exploring the human stories behind the headlines.

She has worked on a diverse array of stories which have taken her around the world, from walking through minefields in Lebanon, to visiting refugee camps in Iraq, covering the 2023 elections in Turkey, shadowing a psychologist helping displaced children in Armenia, and speaking to women fleeing war and domestic abuse in Ukraine. Closer to home, she’s investigated the UK’s asylum-seeker housing and treatment of migrant survivors of domestic abuse, and exposed an elite French university’s #MeToo reckoning.  

Her work has been published in TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, BBC News, Al Jazeera, The i Paper, The Telegraph, VICE World News, openDemocracy, Huck Magazine, The New Arab, and others.

In 2021 she was shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards and in 2022 she was a winner of MHP Mischief's 30 To Watch Young Journalist Award in the international affairs category. In 2019 she was longlisted for Spread The Word’s London Short Story Prize.

Jessie has a First Class degree in Journalism from City, University of London. She is based in London.