Carrie Ann Wharton

I’m a freelance writer who recently earned a master's degree in journalism from New York University, where I shot, edited and produced a documentary on female survivors of sexual abuse by nuns (yes nuns) in the Catholic Church. The activists and survivors I met over the course of making this film have changed my life, and are the inspiration for my first novel (now in the works).

After graduating from NYU, worked as a financial reporter and U.S. correspondent for a London-based investment banking newspaper called Financial News. For the past two years, I have served as Director of Fundraising and Development at Settlement Housing Fund, a 39 year-old affordable housing non-profit based in Manhattan.

Previous to my time at SHF, I worked in a variety of newsrooms and production houses, including my current place of work, Engel Entertainment, where I write feminist-oriented proposals and generate story ideas series featured on Discovery, National Geographic, A&E and The History Channel.

During graduate school, I worked as a producer for ForexTV.com, a start-up, video-streaming online news outlet formerly affiliated with Institutional Investor and Smart Money, where I wrote and reported stories concerning the foreign exchange markets and futures markets. As the director and producer of the company's newest site, a portal devoted to the subject of outsourcing, I was responsible for all business development, content acquisition, and advertising sales and supervised a team of eight reporters.

During this time I also interned as on-air reporter for Transit News Magazine, an Emmy Award winner and the US’s widely syndicated government-sponsored television show. While at Transit, I had the opportunity various local politicians and government officials, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Metropolitan Transit Authority President Laurence G. Reuter.

I have a long history of community service and activism, including a stint in 2003 when I worked as the spokesperson and co-manager of a US chapter of Seeds of Peace based Central Florida. In this role, I represented the group's peacekeeping initiative among Orlando's Jewish and Arab youth to media such as the Orlando Sentinel and NPR, as well as co-organizing the chapter’s first benefit, raising in excess of $25,000.

I am affiliated with several women's organizations, including Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and my writing has been published in Best Body magazine, MediaLifeMagazine.com, EFinancialNews.com, ForexTV.com, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and PBS’s Wide Angle.