Marisa Mazria Katz

Marisa Mazria Katz is a journalist based in New York and Providence, Rhode Island. She has contributed to numerous publications and television channels on culture, politics and design, including: The New York Times, Time, NPR, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Economist, The New Republic, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Art Asia Pacific (Contributing Editor), Wallpaper*, Monocle, Departures, ESPN The Magazine and many more.

In addition to her writing, Marisa runs the award-winning Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism. She was also a Kickstarter Fellow in 2018.

In 2009, Marisa was the recipient of a US State Department grant that helped to establish a program that teaches citizen journalism in a severely marginalized district of Casablanca, Morocco. In December 2011, she began a new chapter of the program.

Marisa graduated as a Founders’ Scholar from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1998 with a BFA in both Film/Television and Theatre. She has worked on several documentaries and television shows, including Channel 4’s “The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall,” a docu-drama that detailed the killing of a peace activist by an Israeli army sniper. The film won a BAFTA.

Marisa was the founding editor of Creative Time Reports. The program’s key goal was to publish artists’ unflinching perspectives on the most challenging issues of our times. With Creative Time Reports, artists were correspondents and brought their own unique spin to current events. Under Marisa’s tenure, the website co-published Creative Time Reports content with The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, Slate, Salon, The Intercept, and many more. In 2019, she published with Paper Chase Press and Creative Time, "Artists on the News,” a selection of work from Creative Time Reports.