Tatiana Walk-Morris is an award-winning investigative reporter whose work spans across business, technology, health and social justice issues. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Vox, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Vogue Business and many more publications. She aspires to write stories that help readers make sense of an ever-changing world.
In addition to her work for consumer-focused publications, she has extensive experience covering industries such as law, cybersecurity, payments, urban planning, and retail for publications including Chicago Lawyer magazine, Dark Reading, Payments Dive, Planning magazine and Retail Dive. She has also helped companies in the insurance, rental housing, day trading, and other industries refresh their content marketing.
In recent years, she has published investigative reporting for publications such as Cosmopolitan, Vox, The Chicago Reader and Prism. She has received grants to support her work from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the City University of New York and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. With help from her former colleagues at the Investigative Project on Race and Equity and Block Club Chicago, she and her colleagues won two Lisagor awards from the Chicago Headline Club, a chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, for an article she reported and wrote about Black homeowners in Chicago being disproportionately denied home loans and refinancing.
Before getting her start in journalism in Chicago, the native-born Detroiter spent her childhood in the city proper and her teens in the metro Detroit area before relocating to Chicago for college in 2011. Her decision to pursue a writing career was driven in large part by her mom, who fostered a love of reading by taking her to the library for fresh batches of books to devour. Along with books, the magazines and newspapers her relatives subscribed to offered a portal to other worlds beyond Detroit. Ultimately, her love of the features in Seventeen magazine — also thanks to a gift subscription from her mom — planted the seed for a career in journalism.
At Columbia College Chicago, she earned her bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism with a minor in arts management. Her classes and student journalism at the Columbia Chronicle, the college’s student newspaper, laid the foundation for her to become the freelance journalist she is today. She went on to intern at NBC Chicago and Crain’s Chicago Business, the latter of which helped to shape her career as a business journalist.
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