Lottie Joiner Returns to JAWS Board of Directors
(Jan. 2025) - Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) welcomes back Lottie Joiner to the Board of Directors. She rejoined the board in January to fill a vacancy after serving a previous term nonconsecutively.
Joiner is an award-winning multimedia journalist with more than two decades of experience covering issues that impact underserved and marginalized communities. She is the former editor-in-chief of The Crisis Magazine, the official publication of the NAACP founded by civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois. The quarterly journal focused on social and political issues affecting minority communities, Black history, African American art and culture. During her tenure at The Crisis, the magazine won several national awards.
Joiner also hosted and produced the weekly Facebook Live show Crisis Conversations, which focused on how the pandemic impacted minority communities. The show featured a diverse lineup of panelists from underserved communities. Later, Crisis Conversations focused on the nation’s racial reckoning after the murder of George Floyd.
Joiner’s work explores the conditions and lived experiences of those in underserved communities. She has written extensively about the Civil Rights Movement with articles published in The Washington Post, USA Today, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Guardian, Time.com and TheAtlantic.com. She has also written for a number of minority-focused publications including Ebony and Jet magazines, Essence, NBCBLK, The Undefeated, The Grio and The Root.
In addition to her publishing accomplishments, Joiner has also participated in a number of professional development opportunities. She was a 2015 Center for Health Journalism Fellow at the University of Southern California at Annenberg. Joiner participated in Yale University’s 2016 Thread at Yale Media Storytelling program, and in 2017 she was named a Schuster Institute/Fund for Investigative Journalism Diversity Fellow.
In 2019, Joiner was a Pulitzer Center grantee and a Folio 100 Honoree, which recognizes the top innovators in publishing. In 2021, she was chosen for the Maynard Institute’s Maynard 200 Fellowship, participating in its Executive Leadership program. That same year she participated in the Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Media program.
Joiner is a former board member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), a former board member of the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) and a former board member of JAWS, where she also served as captain of the DC region. In 2024, JAWS chose Joiner as the organization’s inaugural Alicia Shepard Fellow, in honor of the late award-winning journalist and JAWS member Alicia Shepard. She is based in New Orleans.