Cat Carroll

Cat Carroll is a journalist whose reporting centers on migration and human rights.

She reported internationally as the 2025 recipient of the Wolff Fellowship and a 2025 Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow. Her work has also been supported by fellowships with the Center for Journalism Ethics and the Association of Health Care Journalists. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Progressive Magazine, The Trace and the Cap Times.

Carroll is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studied journalism and international studies with additional majors in German and certificates in public policy, European studies, Middle East studies and Arabic. During her time at UW–Madison, she served as managing editor and later chair of the board of directors of the independent student newspaper The Badger Herald.