IRIS NRC wants to extend our sincere congratulations to Cat Carroll, UW Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow and IRIS NRC FLAS awardee, whose piece, “Far From Home, Carried by Community: In Austria, a Quiet Network Sustains Filipino Nurses“ was just selected as one of the Pulitzer Center’s Stories of the Year!
Libby Moeller (Program Manager at the Pulitzer Center) remarked, “Cat Carroll’s reporting brings a human lens to the Austrian government’s policy for recruitment of Filipino nurses. As she puts it, ‘The Alpine nation may recruit workers, but it’s the Filipino community that keeps them whole.’ This story of cultivated community in a new home gives me hope.”