Dionne Searcey grew up in Wymore, Nebraska, where she attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduated with a degree in journalism and French.
Her area was the telecom industry until she moved to The New York Times in 2014 and began to write about the American economy.
She won the Michael Kelly Award for her reporting on Boko Haram,[3] as well as a citation by the Overseas Press Club.
[4] In 2018 she partnered with Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow to make I Am Not A Weapon, video interviews with female survivors of Boko Haram.
[6] She won a Pulitzer Prize with The New York Times in 2020 for International Reporting: Russian Assassins and her contribution from the Central African Republic.