About Gillian

Gillian Brockell is a multimedia journalist and essayist currently reporting on ICE flights. In her decade at the Washington Post, she was a staff writer, video editor, and live producer. She wrote the popular Retropolis section on rediscovered history, which regularly broke traffic records; published widely read personal essays on stillbirth, the #MeToo movement, the juvenile justice system, and soulful travel; and produced video in Opinions and on the National, Science and Politics desks. She was a Paul Miller Fellow and produced video for projects nominated for multiple Emmys and a Pulitzer and that won a NABJ Salute to Excellence Award. 

She has written for Rolling Stone, Zeteo, the American Prospect, Cosmopolitan and Fodors Travel, and has appeared on MSNBC, NPR, and many many podcasts. She has also been a morning radio producer and a flight attendant.

Gillian holds a M.S. in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she was a Bloomberg Fellow, a Global Journalism Fellow, and won the Robert H. Wieder Award for social justice reporting, and a B.A. in African history and English from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in the D.C. area with her family and sings alto in a local choir.