Jennifer Kay is a Miami-based journalist for The Associated Press. She has dictated copy in the middle of the night from North Philadelphia, an exclusive Main Line neighborhood, the National Hurricane Center and the tarmac at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Jennifer’s coverage of a boat overloaded with Haitian migrants capsizing in the Turks and Caicos Islands won second place for international reporting in the South Florida Society of Professional Journalists 2010 Sunshine State Awards. She took third place for international reporting in the 2009 Sunshine State Awards for breaking news about food cargo rotting in Haitian seaports because of bureaucracy. She also won a 1999-2000 Virginia Press Award for a front-page story about gang activity in the D.C. metro area.
Before moving to Miami, Jennifer worked in the AP’s Philadelphia bureau. She interned at the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., WXPN public radio in Philadelphia, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and Connection Newspapers in suburban Washington, D.C. She graduated from Dartmouth College.
