Kelsey is a senior reporter for Business Insider, where she covers breaking news as well as stories about the environment, tourism, the West, and Indigenous communities.
Her feature story "Disaster at 18,200 feet" received awards from the New York Press Club and the North American Travel Journalists Association, as well as honorable mention from the Society of American Travel Writers. It was also included on Longreads' and Pocket's best of 2022 lists. She has also received an American Journalism Online Award for her coverage on missing and murdered Indigenous people in Wyoming.
She previously worked on the world news desk at the BBC in London and received a master's in journalism from Northwestern University. She can be reached by email at kvlamis@businessinsider.com or on Twitter @kelseyvlamis.
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