Cheryl Devall

I'm a veteran storyteller in sound, images and words. As an editor and correspondent, I've worked for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, National Public Radio, Marketplace, Southern California Public Radio, the San Jose Mercury News, the Chicago Tribune and the Louisville Courier-Journal. Earlier this decade I had the time of my life editing and writing for the Daily World in Opelousas, Louisiana – my parents’ ancestral state and the birthplace of zydeco music and dancing (a passion of mine, alongside jazz, classical, roots, folk and the Great American Songbook). I edited the audio version of the Reveal investigation “All Work, No Pay,” a finalist in the 2018 Pulitzer Prize national reporting category. I've shared in three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards for coverage of AIDS and Black America early in the epidemic, the 1992 Los Angeles riots and North Carolina 40 years after the federal War on Poverty. Education, work and life have taken me all over; now I'm based within 10 miles of my birthplace in the East San Francisco Bay Area. At present I primarily seek temporary and part-time projects I can complete remotely, although I'm also willing to travel as needed.