Gibran Caroline Boyce is a multimedia journalist, covering Washington and the world. She specializes in broadcast/documentary reporting, feature writing, and photojournalism. Her beat largely revolves around the intersection of international security and affairs, U.S. foreign policy, geopolitics, power, culture, and resistance from local communities to Capitol Hill and the global stage.
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 for her master’s degree in international reporting and broadcast journalism. This summer, she begins her career as an international correspondent, interning for EVN Reportin Yerevan, Armenia, covering international security, geopolitics in the greater South Caucasus region, and culture.
In Fall 2024, she interned at CNN on Fareed Zakaria GPS, the network’s flagship foreign affairs broadcast program. During her time at CNN, she contributed to the show’s international impact and gained 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.
She also has field reporting experience covering immigration at the U.S.-Mexico Border, based out of El Paso, Texas and Santa Teresa, New Mexico. You can find her published work and photos in The Guardian.
While at Newmark and CNN, Gibran is honing her skills in live broadcast and documentary reporting/production (iNews), feature and opinion 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).
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).
