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Hannah Allam - Keynote Address

Hannah Allam covers extremism, political violence and other national security issues as an investigative reporter at ProPublica. She joined in January 2025 from The Washington Post, where she covered similar issues and was part of two Pulitzer-winning teams. Before that, she launched an extremism beat at NPR and reported live from the U.S. Capitol during the attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

As a longtime foreign correspondent for McClatchy, Allam served as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq War and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. Her work in the Middle East was recognized by the George Polk Awards and the Overseas Press Club. She returned to the United States in 2012 and has reported extensively on U.S. foreign policy, race and religion, and the mainstreaming of extremist ideologies.

Allam is a 1999 graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where she was editor of the OU Daily student newspaper. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard and serves on the board of the International Women’s Media Foundation. She lives in Washington, D.C.