Clara Germani is a California-based writer, editor, and journalism instructor.
She has held staff positions at The Christian Science Monitor, The Baltimore Sun, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, The Orange County Register, and City News Service. Her freelance bylines have appeared in Salon, Rotary magazine, The St. Louis American, National Geographic News Service, and the Principia Purpose.
In her reporting on war, human rights, immigration, politics, the environment, education, and international affairs, she has filed stories from a Siberian reindeer herder’s yurt, coups in Haiti, US presidential nominating conventions, and criminal courtrooms. She loves researching and writing profiles, because she’s found that every person’s journey reveals something profound.
As an editor, she has handled copy editing and news desk assignments as well as narrative investigative projects that have won an Overseas Press Club citation, multiple Education Writers Association prizes, and two national medical reporting awards. She prides herself on being a writer’s editor, having received a Dart Society Mimi citation for excellence and sensitivity in editing conflict journalists in Africa and the Middle East.
She has had the thrill, as a university journalism instructor, of seeing many of her hundreds of students land jobs in local newsrooms as well as at national and international media outlets.