Kelsey Rightnowar was the inaugural Murray journalism fellow at FRONTLINE in 2023-24. She graduated with a master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism with an emphasis in documentary journalism in May 2023. Her work is grounded in a dedication to making investigative and thoughtful documentaries that aim to reach audiences with a diversity of experiences. While in graduate school, she was selected as one of fifty students to participate in the Telluride Student Symposium at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival.

Other documentary credits include work as a production coordinator and archival researcher for the RFK Journalism Award-winning HBO documentary Atomic Homefront, and as a production coordinator for BET News’s Justice for Ferguson series hosted by journalist Marc Lamont Hill. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in history from University of Missouri-Columbia.