Awards and fellowships

  • Visiting Global Associate, Institute for Women’s Leadership, Rutgers University, US 2022/23

  • Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace, Middlebury Institute for International Studies, 2019

  • Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grantee 2019

  • Logan Nonfiction Fellow, Carey Institute for Global Good, 2018

  • Kurt Schork Courage in Journalism Award Finalist 2018

  • One World Media Print Award Finalist 2018

  • One World Media New Voice Award 2018

”That Cathy Otten took first place was the first unanimous decision the jury took.

Her work spoke to the very best of dedication to her craft and her subjects.”- Judging panel