Alison Flowers

Alison Flowers is a journalist and producer at the Invisible Institute, a nonprofit journalism production company on the South Side of Chicago, where she directs the organization's investigative journalism work. In 2021, her audio reporting was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for the 7-part investigative podcast “Somebody” about the 2016 murder of Courtney Copeland. “Somebody” received many other honors, including a National Magazine Award/Ellie, the Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Radio/Podcast Coverage and Best Audio Documentary from the International Documentary Association. Flowers’ work has appeared in The Guardian, TIME, The Village Voice, VICE, The Intercept, The Daily Beast, Chicago Reader, and she is a two-time winner of the Hillman Foundation’s Sidney Award. In 2019, she co-produced the SHOWTIME documentary “16 Shots” on the police killing of Laquan McDonald, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary, received Television Academy Honors for documentary special, and earned a Peabody nomination. Flowers is the author of “Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence and Identity” (Haymarket Books, 2016).