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Chrissy has been a professional journalist for four years, but her love for writing began much earlier.
Who is Chrissy?
Chrissy Booker is a Portland-based journalist and digital producer.
Chrissy is currently a Digital Producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting, where she produces digital stories created by OPB journalists across multiple content teams.
In June 2023, just a couple of weeks after graduating college, she started at The Columbian in Vancouver, Washington, as a Charles Snowden intern. She was subsequently hired full-time at The Columbian, where she began covering health care and nonprofits. Her work at The Columbian has been published in The Seattle Times, The Spokesman-Review, the Tacoma News Tribune, and more.
Before joining The Columbian, she created an arts and culture magazine called Labyrinth, tutored journalism students at the University of Oregon’s Writing Central, and served as editor-in-chief of Black Student Magazine in 2023 at Journalistic Learning Initiative. She received the 2023 Mentorship Award from the Journalistic Learning Initiative for the guidance she provided to emerging journalists at Black Student Magazine.
When Chrissy isn’t writing, she’s reading books by some of her favorite authors, including James Baldwin, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Ocean Vuong, and Octavia E. Butler. She’s also writing poetry, drinking coffee, exploring the hidden gems of Portland, and singing with her dad.
Chrissy has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.
Chrissy founded an arts and culture magazine called Labyrinth in 2021.
The first page of Labyrinth, written by Chrissy, tells the story of her youth.
Real stories. Real impact. Read the first issue of Labyrinth Magazine.
