Biography
I am a journalist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Georgia. I am currently a Rosalyn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism.
I studied Photojournalism and Religion at the University of Georgia and then worked as a photojournalist at a small, family-owned newspaper in Northern Indiana. The paper was starting the transition to prioritize their online presence and I quickly realized I had a lot to learn about the Internet. I got my Master’s from UNC-Chapel Hill as a Roy H. Park fellow, studying short documentary filmmaking and web design to give myself more tools to tell stories for the web. I made films for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice and was recruited to work on a national criminal justice campaign for the AFL-CIO. Then I moved to Washington, DC to work as a producer at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting where I shot short documentary films, facilitated education programs, managed interns, curated exhibits in DC and New York, designed our most popular e-book Flight from Syria, and launched and grew our Instagram to more than 60k followers. I have worked with the New Yorker, ProPublica, and Instagram among others.
I have taught video workshops around the U.S. with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and have coached the NPPA Immersion Workshop. I am currently on the faculty of Mercer's Center for Collaborative Journalism.
My work tends to focus on the human impact of larger systems.
I recently directed and produced an investigative documentary about a water pollution issue called Saving Juliette. The film is currently screening at festivals and has won multiple awards, including the Best Short Documentary at the 2022 American Conservation Film Festival. I was a finalist for the Livingston Award in local reporting for this work.
I produced the podcast Prison Town, a narrative investigation using one prison in South Georgia as a case study to look at the Georgia Department of Corrections. It was nominated for a Peabody. Less than a year after we published, the state Senate unanimously approved a resolution that created a seven-member committee to examine “current issues impacting the ability of the Department of Corrections to operate secure and safe facilities and to ensure the welfare of both its staff and those in its custody.”
Fun fact: I'm a pandemic mom. I was interviewed by New York Magazine when I was expecting my first.
You can reach me at wilson.evey@gmail.com
Awards / Exhibitions
2023 - Peabody Nomination for Radio / Podcast, Prison Town
2022 - Clarion Award for Television Investigative Feature or Series - Local or Regional, Saving Juliette
2022 - Livingston Award Finalist in Local Reporting, Saving Juliette
2022 - Short Film Award Winner of the American Conservation Film Festival, Saving Juliette
2021 - Full Bloom Film Festival Best Short Documentary Award, Saving Juliette
2021 - Macon Film Festival Documentary Film Audience Choice Award, Saving Juliette
2017 - Finalist for Short Documentary CINE Award, Facing Risk
2016 - Foto Week DC at National Geographic, curated Daniella Zalcman's Signs of Your Identity project
2016 - Photoville, curated Daniella Zalcman's Signs of Your Identity project
2016 - curated Daniella Zalcman's 'Faces of Faith' at Wesley Seminary
2016 - curated 'God, Government and LGBT Rights in India, Uganda and Russia' at Harvard's Monroe C. Gutman Library as part their annual LBTQ Conference
2015 - FotoWeek DC, curated Misha Friedman's work in Iron Closet
2015 - Photoville, curated Misha Friedman's work in Iron Closet
2015 - Gold Horizon Interactive Award for Video - Short Documentary, Fault Lines
2015 - Gold Horizon Interactive Award for Websites - Magazines / News / Blog, Fault Lines
2015 - Gold Horizon Interactive Award for Websites - School / University, Fault Lines
2015 - Honorable Mention for Portrait, Southern Short Course
2015 - 72nd College Photographer of the Year Silver Solo Journalism Multimedia Story or Essay, People Change
2014 - 37th Frame Exhibition, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
2014 - Roy H. Park Fellowship, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
2012 - McGill Fellowship, University of Georgia
2008 - 2012 - Hope Scholar, University of Georgia
Speaking / Teaching
2023 - Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar (Speaker and Judge) - 'Reporting Across Mediums'
2021 - Georgia College, Saving Juliette: A Documentary on Coal Ash & a Georgia Town's Fight for Clean Water (Screening and Panel Discussion)
2019 - NPPA Multimedia Immersion Coach
2018 - Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Video Contest Judge
2018 - NPPA Multimedia Immersion Coach
2018 - Free Spirit Media Coach
2018 - Women Focus Portfolio Reviewer
2017 - Panel Speaker, Northern Short Course
2016 - Free Spirit Media Coach
2016 - Panel Speaker, GeekFest DC
2015 - Free Spirit Media Coach