2024 Winner

Shayla Love

2024 Winner

Shayla Love, a contributor the The Guardian and Psyche, writes primarily about science and health and is interested in how history, culture, and philosophy interact with present day research. Love was previously a senior staff writer at Vice, and she has a master’s degree in science journalism from Columbia University. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, Scientific American, the New Republic, Harper’s Bazaar, Wired, Esquire, and Nautilus, among other publications.

Love, the tenth winner of the annual award, is the first to hold a bachelor’s degree from NYU (in journalism and art history). She will use the grant to pursue a story on non-traditional, and controversial, pathways to develop new medications and health treatments.

The $12,500 annual award was established to commemorate Matthew Power, a wide-roving and award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human condition. Matt died in March 2014, while on assignment in Uganda. An endowment fund has been established to make the award possible in perpetuity. To date, more than 650 friends, family, and journalism colleagues have contributed.