Gibran Caroline Boyce is a multimedia U.S. Politics and International Affairs Investigative Journalist and Columnist specializing in broadcast reporting, documentary, narrative print/digital writing, opinion-editorial, and photojournalism. Her work often centers around international affairs and human rights; domestic affairs and social justice; U.S. foreign policy and national security; and Capitol Hill — particularly The White House.
Gibran is an Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting Scholar at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism (part of CUNY) in New York City, earning a full merit scholarship in tuition and fees to receive a Master’s Degree in International Reporting.
Gibran is also a production intern at CNN on Fareed Zakaria GPS, the network’s leading live foreign affairs broadcast show, where she contributes to the show’s international impact and is gaining experience working in both the newsroom and control room at the height of one of the nation’s most consequential Presidential elections and geopolitically tense times in world history.
While at Newmark and CNN, Gibran is honing her skills in live broadcast reporting and production (iNews); documentary filmmaking; narrative print writing and podcasting; op-ed and feature writing, photojournalism; writing and editing for video and audio (Adobe Premiere Pro and ProTools); as well as investigative research and data journalism (data analysis and HTML/CSS coding for website creation/data visualization via GitHub, DataWrapper, and Sublime Text). She also enjoys using social media to help share her reporting and news analysis with new audiences.
She is currently covering NYC’s migrants — particularly asylum-seekers at the Roosevelt Hotel and shelters around the city; Mayor Eric Adams’ Administration and the Mayor’s recent indictment; and how tensions in the Middle East have been brought cityside — including reporting from the frontlines of some of the city’s largest protests of the conflict in Gaza.
Gibran often utilizes cultural, geopolitical, and historical contexts; analytical research; and sociopolitical philosophy to complement the human-centered throughlines of her stories. By a young age, Gibran had already been recognized for her unique voice, prominent storytelling, and writing for social change by The New York Times and Long Island Press, and was a 2015 Telluride Association Summer Program(TASP) Scholar — renowned for being one of the most academically rigorous and competitive student summer programs internationally.
She has penned as a White House Correspondent, Opinions Editor & Contributor, and Political News & Features Staff Writer (including reporting on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and international humans rights coverage) for previous student newspapers. Her formal research experience includes work as an Undergraduate Research Assistant, analyzing international security, political violence, terrorism, insurgency, and human trafficking in the Middle East and Northern Africa for the since published literature of one of Boston College’s leading professors of International Affairs.
Gibran holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies (Cooperation & Conflict/International Security) and Journalism from Boston College. As part of her academic studies, Gibran participated in a six-month Spanish language immersion program at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain where she studied geopolitics, human rights, and international journalism. She formerly served on the press teams for Senator Elizabeth Warren on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and the successful re-election campaign for former Mayor of Boston, Martin J. Walsh (turned U.S. Secretary of Labor under the Biden Administration).
