Artis Rothholz Curiskis

Ben Bagdikian Reporting Fellow with Mother Jones

2024 Peabody Nominee

The COVID Tracking Project, a massive volunteer effort to document tests, hospitalizations, and deaths in an effort to show where the virus was, and who was dying, became a de facto source of data amid the chaos of COVID-19. The series addresses the crucial concerns the United States faces about why the nation had to rely on volunteerism, rather than federal and state public health institutions, to receive critical COVID data during the worst public health crisis in a century.

This three-part series exposes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s bungled response to COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic and takes listeners inside the massive volunteer effort to collect data about tests, cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S.

Wrote articles about Covid-19 for The Atlantic

Long-term-care COVID Tracker Lead for the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-driven initiative housed at The Atlantic. Created most comprehensive database of the impact of COVID-19 on U.S’s nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities. COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete COVID-19 data available for US states and territories. Learn more here.

Outreach and Reporting Lead for the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-driven initiative housed at The Atlantic. Built system of communication with 56 health departments of states and territories. COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete COVID-19 data available for US states and territories. Learn more: www.covidtracking.com

Social Media photographer for Fútbol Más in Sevilla, Spain.

Reimagined a field recording into an experimental audio piece for Cities and Memory

Audio Artist-in-Residence at UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art

Chasing an authentic fan experience by using back channel methods to sneak into La Bombonera, the home of Boca Juniors, for a match.

Published by The Culture Division

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Beyond 90 published story about the Golden Girls Sports Centre becoming the first Somali Women’s football team to play an international match.

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Beyond 90 published story about Equal Playing Fields world record breaking soccer matches promoting gender equality during the Women's World Cup in Lyon, France.

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The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship funds an original project executed during a year of independent, purposeful exploration on a world scale. I focused on exploring unrecognized nations and communities throughout the world through a cultural and social lens as it relates to identity, political landscapes and soccer.

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Human Rights Cup 2018, organized by Matabeleland Football Confederacy, was held in Johannesburg, South Africa to celebrate UN’s declaration of Human Rights on Dec 10, 1948. This three-part story follows the Matabeleland men's and women's teams journey to Johannesburg, paired with commentary about the history of Matabeleland and Ndebele People, Zimbabwe and identity.

Podcast about Matabeleland's preperation for the Human Rights Cup 2018.

Human Rights Cup 2019 was held in Cape Town, South Africa and featured Somali women’s first international football match.

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Produced educational videos about the process of producing cider

Photo journalism story about the history of the Venetian walls and UN security borders and their subsequent impact on development of soccer pitches around Nicosia, the dual capitol of Turkish Republic of North Cyprus and Cyprus.

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