Mya Frazier oversees student mentorship and training efforts at WWG, enriching student access to the best techniques and practices of investigative reporting. Mya is an award-winning investigative and narrative journalist based in the Midwest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Green, Guardian Long Read, NewYorker.com, Harper’s, Outside, and Columbia Journalism Review, among many other publications. She is a former staff writer for The Cleveland Plain Dealer and American City Business Journals.
Frazier was a finalist for the 2025 National Magazine Award in feature writing from the American Society of Magazine Editors, won the 2022 NPF Poverty Award, a 2025 Climate Change Now award, and has twice received the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. She has been awarded journalism fellowships from the Wallace House Center for Journalists at the University of Michigan, the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at City University of New York, the 11th Hour Food, Farming and Environmental Journalism Projects at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights at the Columbia Journalism School, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard.