PinnedJacqueline Neber·Dec 13, 2021Agency, inclusion, and empathy as power: The last dispatch from my MA in Engagement JournalismIf you’ve been here awhile, you know that for the last 18 months I’ve been completing my Master’s in Engagement Journalism at the Craig…
Jacqueline Neber·Dec 16, 2021Some disabled group home residents are frustrated that their reports of abuse and neglect aren’t…For the last 18 months, I’ve been working with intellectually and developmentally disabled New Yorkers and their families to understand…
Jacqueline Neber·Dec 13, 2021In New York, reporting abuse and neglect that happens to disabled people who live in group homes…“I’ve experienced [reports of abuse and neglect] going unfounded, and the abuse continues.”
Jacqueline Neber·May 19, 2021I hosted a Zoom for members of my journalistic community. Here’s what I learned.I’m Jacqueline Neber, an Engagement Journalism graduate student at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. As I’ve written…
Jacqueline Neber·Dec 17, 2020Abuse is still happening in group homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.As I’ve written in the past, my brother Matt has autism and a visual impairment. That means that one day, he could reside in one of New…A response icon4A response icon4
Jacqueline Neber·Nov 18, 2020Combatting election misinformation taught me a few things. None of them were surprising.Prior to Election Day, my Social Journalism cohort assisted First Draft News and ProPublica’s Electionland project in uncovering voting…
Jacqueline Neber·Sep 30, 2020I have a twin brother, Matt. Here’s why that’s important.In my household we speak two languages: one that probably sounds like your day-to-day conversations with your family, and one that’s…
Jacqueline Neber·Aug 21, 202010:30pm, August 20On my second-to-last night in my hometown I walk up to the grounds of my old elementary school right after sunset. A wooden fence…
Jacqueline Neber·Apr 27, 2020Quarantine Day 49On my walk today I wear my Nikes and decide to run, which never happens. I make it two blocks before I can’t get my breathing into a…
Jacqueline Neber·Feb 29, 2020The Second Day of the Rest of Your LifeWell, it happened again. In the back of another cab, a guy in his twenties sitting next to me praying the driver will take a credit card…