Meg Kissinger Biography

The investigative journalist and author Meg Kissinger has used her work to transform public discussions about mental health in America. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel employed her for twenty years during which she received two George Polk Awards and became a Pulitzer Prize finalist while her mental health system investigations produced major policy reforms and built hundreds of new housing facilities for mentally ill people. 

Kissinger reveals her family's mental health struggles and the ways in which the healthcare system failed them in her 2023 memoir While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence. The book received recognition as a top memoir of 2023 from Amazon and Audible and Goodreads and The New York Times and Los Angeles Times selected it as an Editors' Choice. 

Kissinger devotes her time to teaching investigative reporting at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism while also serving as a visiting professor at DePauw University which she attended. Her work drives ongoing mental health care reform initiatives and stigma reduction efforts.

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