Expertise
Human-centered stories, healthcare, nonprofits, neurology, and pediatricsEducation
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Award-winning journalist
Strategic writer and story producer
Healthcare and patient advocate
Everyone has a story to tell, and those stories are powerful. Storytelling inspires, informs, and builds community. What’s yours?
— Clare Hennig
Experience
Clare Hennig is an award-winning writer and digital story producer with a background in fact-based storytelling. She worked as a journalist at CBC News, Canada’s largest news organization, where she covered everything from breaking news to long-form features and interviews. During her time at CBC News, she won several awards for her work, including as part of the team that received the 2020 Jack Webster Award for Excellence In Digital Journalism for the series “Tracking COVID-19 in British Columbia.”
She then transitioned to creating social impact in the world of healthcare, taking a role in digital marketing and strategic storytelling at the Child Neurology Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit serving children living with a neurologic condition and their families. What most excites her is telling patients’ stories, like a father with a teenage daughter living with Rett syndrome and a parent-advocate who has been at the forefront of breakthroughs in first-generation gene therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.
Education
Clare received an undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic for New York University Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, on a full-ride scholarship, in 2016. Afterward, she pursued a 1-year intensive journalism program at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada.
