She was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting in 2021 for her work on the podcast Somebody, which tells the story of Shapearl Wells, mother of Courtney Copeland who was killed outside a Chicago police station in 2016.
[1] She won an Emmy for her work on the SHOWTIME documentary 16 Shots[2] and is the author of Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence and Identity (Haymarket Books, 2016), a portrait of four exonerated criminals.
[4] She is also an alumna of The OpEd Project and a volunteer mentor for GlobalGirl Media, working with four student journalists to tackle the subject of gun rights and violence in the city.
In The New York Times, Ken Jaworowski wrote that despite the fact that the case was extensively covered by the media, 16 Shots “remains valuable as a record of past events that hold sway over the present.”[2] Flowers produced a seven-part investigative podcast Somebody, which examines the mysterious 2016 murder of unarmed Courtney Copeland in Chicago.
[3] In an interview with the non-profit news organization Truthout's editor-in-chief Maya Schenwar, Flowers said her inspiration to focus on life after exoneration came from her work at an innocence project at Northwestern University.