Priska Neely

Priska Neely is board president of PMJA and the training manager for Report for America. Previously she was the founding managing editor of the Gulf States Newsroom, a collaboration among member stations in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. She was named PMJA's 2022 Editor of the Year and is currently serving as president. Previously she worked at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KPCC in Los Angeles, where she reported extensively on maternal and infant mortality in the Black community. Before that, she was a producer at NPR in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. She is a native of Silver Spring, Md. and enjoys singing, hiking and talking to her plants.