Aaron L. Morrison

Aaron is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in New York City, where he is a national race and ethnicity writer for The Associated Press. Before that, he was a senior reporter at The Appeal and an on-air correspondent and senior writer for Mic. His work has also appeared in the International Business Times and The Record newspaper in Bergen County, New Jersey.

Aaron also serves as an adjunct lecturer for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in Manhattan. He developed the school’s third-semester “Reporting on Race” course in 2021.

Aaron typically writes about race, civil rights, politics, criminal justice reform and grassroots social movements. He has reported extensively on developments in the Black Lives Matter movement.

From 2012-2015, he served as the Miami Herald’s freelance resident correspondent at the United Nations, covering Latin America, the Caribbean and other issues impacting the Western Hemisphere. During his stint at the U.N., Aaron was selected as a 2013 fellow of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, affording his trips to Morocco, Jordan and Qatar. The program fosters intercultural dialogue between young leaders and journalists in Western and Middle Eastern societies.

Aaron is a longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists and has previously served on the board of the organization's New York City chapter.

He received a BA in Journalism from San Francisco State University. In 2018, Aaron was recognized as an “Outstanding Journalism Alumnus” by the faculty of SF State’s Journalism Department.

Aaron is a native of Oakland, California.