Garance Burke

Garance Burke is a global investigative journalist with The Associated Press whose work has provoked policy change at significant scale. Grounded in data and documents, her public interest journalism has prompted federal investigations, cabinet-level resignations and congressional hearings. Ms. Burke’s recent stories on the treatment of migrant children on the U.S.-Mexico border were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary film partnership between AP and FRONTLINE PBS.

Ms. Burke was selected in 2019 as an inaugural Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence-John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where she researched the major role algorithms play in government decision-making. Following the year-long fellowship, she was appointed as a Stanford HAI affiliate fellow. 

Based in San Francisco, Ms. Burke has worked for AP from Anchorage to Mexico City. She previously served as AP’s Western data editor, collaborating with colleagues to shape accountability reporting. Over the years, her investigations have revealed the discharging of immigrant recruits from the U.S. Army, the behavior of President Donald Trump toward women on the set of “The Apprentice” and cyber vulnerabilities in the nation’s power grid. Burke's work has received accolades including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi national investigative reporting award and a national Edward R. Murrow award. 

Ms. Burke began her career at the Mexican financial daily El Financiero, then worked for The Washington Post as a staff researcher/reporter in Mexico City. She earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University and dual master's degrees from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she taught basic data journalism. Ms. Burke previously worked as a policy analyst for the City of San Francisco and as a cross-sector research consultant. In 2018, she received an alumni award for Exceptional Leadership in Policy and Journalism from GSPP.