Zeninjor Enwemeka is a temporary reporter for Planet Money. Enwemeka has spent several years covering business, tech and culture as well as transportation at Member station WBUR in Boston. She's reported on disparities in mortgage lending, Mexico City's bus system and what US cities can learn from it, and the economic impact of COVID on workers, businesses and entrepreneurs.
Enwemeka has also examined the role of chief diversity officers, how businesses responded to racial justice protests, equity in the cannabis industry and how ventilation works on public transit. She's done stories on the 'Black Panther' craze, food waste tech, hacking elections and Space Force. She has received regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for her reporting on the future of work and protest coverage.
Enwemeka previously worked at The Boston Globe as a breaking news writer and digital producer. She was part of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning team for The Boston Globe's breaking news coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. She was also an adjunct lecturer at Boston University, where she taught a class on multimedia journalism. Enwemeka is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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