Kelechukwu Iruoma is a multi-award-winning journalist with seven years of experience covering business, environment, politics, global health, and development, including exposing corruption, and social injustice. Some of his stories, which focused on investigative and development journalism have made tremendous impacts and address different social issues and problems. His stories have appeared on NPR, Devex, Al Jazeera, Thomson Reuters Foundation, African Business, The Fish Site, TRT World, and several others.
Kelechukwu has also worked for non-profits Wild Africa Fund and WildAid as a communications specialist, where he developed and led media campaigns to raise awareness of wildlife conservation issues. He also worked for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC) as the Southern Nigeria Field Coordinator investigating and researching organized crime.
Kelechukwu graduated with a master’s degree in Mass Communication from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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