Speakers

Irene Caselli

Senior Advisor, Early Childhood Journalism Initiative, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Irene Caselli is a multimedia reporter and writer, with two decades of experience in radio, TV and print, now focusing on early childhood, caregivers, and reproductive rights. She is a senior advisor for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, leading their Early Childhood Journalism Initiative.

For a decade, Caselli was a foreign correspondent in Latin America, reporting for the BBC, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Times and others. In January 2021, she launched her own newsletter, The First 1,000 Days, where she writes about early childhood, partly influenced by her experience as a mother of Lorenzo and León.

She published a chapter in Unbias the News, a book about making journalism more diverse. One of her short films on women’s football and gender inequality received a prize for collaborative journalism.

Caselli speaks six languages (English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese), and is now learning Greek.