Alisa Roth

Correspondent

Alisa Roth is the mental health correspondent for APM Reports. A 2020-2021 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, she is the author of Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness (Basic Books, updated edition, 2020). Previously, she was a staff reporter in the New York bureau of Marketplace, where she covered economic justice and the auto industry. Her reporting has frequently taken her overseas, including during the Arab Spring and the Iraqi and Syrian refugee crises.  A Soros Justice Fellow and Fulbright scholar, she has received grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the International Reporting Project, and the Fund for Investigative Reporting. Her work has appeared in many outlets, including NPR, The World, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books.