Rosemary Westwood

Rosemary Westwood is a Canadian-born, New Orleans-based public radio reporter and freelance writer. Her award-winning work focuses gender, politics and reproductive rights, but sometimes ventures beyond. She’s the host of Banned, the podcast that tells the story of the Mississippi case that overturned Roe v. Wade. She wrote The Roe Report newsletter. Her work has appeared in Oxford American, Pacific Standard, Guardian US, Elle, The Walrus, Maclean’s, Vice, Refinery29 and others. She’s won a 2023 National Edward R. Murrow Award and a 2022 Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. Her work has been funded by the International Women’s Media Foundation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She’s been a world news producer for BBC radio programs in London, UK, a freelancer in Medellin, Colombia, and a podcast host in Toronto, Canada. She was previously the national weekly columnist on US current affairs and politics for Metro (RIP), and the paper’s daily national columnist from 2014-2016. Rosemary holds a BA in creative writing from the University of Victoria.