About Me
Shoshana Walter is an award-winning journalist, currently a crime reporter for The Bay Citizen in San Francisco, California.
She got her start in 2007 at The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., where she covered breaking news, including fires, crashes, murder and monkey escapes.
Before cops and crime scenes, Shoshana attended Mount Holyoke College and graduated in May 2007 with a B.A. in American Studies and a concentration in ethnic and gender studies.
While at Mount Holyoke, she founded a magazine called Feminist Uproar and studied abroad in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where she completed independent research on women in hip hop. At home, she interned and wrote for off our backs news journal, a historic feminist publication in Washington, D.C. and for The Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass. Some of her extracurricular activities included (wo)manning the emergency help lines at the National Organization for Women in New York City, and co-chairing Mount Holyoke’s Jeanette Marks House, a community center for LGBT students. She left Mount Holyoke with a writing award and the Susan Jones Prize for commitment to social justice.
After graduation, Shoshana joined 16 other young journalists for a summer fellowship at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. The intensive journalism boot camp kicked her into shape for her first job search outside of school. She landed at The Ledger, a New York Times Company-owned daily newspaper in central Florida.
Within her first year on the job, Shoshana completed a three-part series on a fatal after-school fight between two middle schoolers. The series and multimedia project won a New York Times Chairman’s Award and the 2009 Florida Society of News Editors’ gold medal for public service. During year two, her series on a child molestation case garnered the 2009 Sigma Delta Chi award for non-deadline reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.