Courtney Crowder
Columnist/Filmmaker
Panelist
Courtney CrowdeCourtney Crowder is the Iowa Columnist and a senior writer at the Des Moines Register and USA Today. A Headliner Award winner, two-time Livingston Award finalist and DART Award finalist, Crowder’s work is distinctive for telling human stories with an investigative eye and a narrative touch.
She wrote and co-directed the award-winning “SHIFT: The RAGBRAI Documentary” and hosted a produced an episode of “Proof,” one of Apple’s most popular food podcasts, on America’s first butter sculptor. During the pandemic, Crowder led the Register’s efforts to document the names and stories of Iowans who died of COVID through the “Iowa Mourns” project and penned a 7-part series, “Inside COVID’s Siege,” after spending weeks embedded in an Ames ICU fighting a deadly surge in patients. She is also a co-founder and former director of the Des Moines Storytellers Project.
Learn more about Courtney: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/staff/2648162001/courtney-crowder/
Courtney will participate in several panels at the Okoboji Writers’ and Songwriters’ Retreat.