Pulitzer Prize-winner Kate Woodsome is a journalist, filmmaker and entrepreneur dedicated to examining the relationship between mental health and democracy. She uncovers the social and political forces and stories that keep people sick and separate in order to illuminate paths to repair.

At The Washington Post, Woodsome won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with colleagues for covering the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. She also pioneered a mental health column and managed a short documentary film unit. As an editor, journalist and producer, Woodsome also has been honored with the Ben Bradlee Award for Courage in Journalism, an Edward R. Murrow Award and honors from the White House News Photographers Association.

Woodsome recently left The Post to found Invisible Threads, a news and storytelling group dedicated to uncovering the hidden, systemic forces — and narratives — that shape our mental and democratic wellbeing through reporting, moderated conversations and trauma-informed workshops. She is also a fellow at Georgetown University’s research and design unit, The Red House, where she is a writer and thought leader focused on transforming cycles of intergenerational trauma into intergenerational wellbeing.

This new chapter deepens work Woodsome has invested in for more than two decades — from reporting on an authoritarian regime in post-genocide Cambodia, to the decline of democracy in Hong Kong and the 2021 U.S. insurrection.