Anissa Durham

Anissa Durham is the health data reporter at Word In Black, where she reports on health care inequities and mental health in the Black community. In 2023, she produced the reporting series Lost Innocence: The Adultification of Black Children as a fellow with the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and Fact or Fiction: Navigating Health Misinformation. In 2024, she produced Life or Debt, a 3-part drug price series which explores the ways Black Americans living with chronic disease are forced to manage an expensive health care system. Prior to working at Word In Black, she was a general assignment reporter at inewsource and has written for The San Diego Union Tribune, PBS SoCal, The Objective, and Voice of San Diego. Anissa has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from National University.