Leyla Kokmen

Leyla Kokmen is the program coordinator for the Health Journalism M.A. program in the SJMC. She has been a staff reporter at daily and weekly papers across the United States, including the Twin Cities' City Pages, The Seattle Times, and The Denver Post, where she contributed to that newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Columbine High School massacre. Kokmen has a B.A. in German Studies from Columbia University and an M.A. in health journalism from the University of Minnesota.