Antonia Hylton
Antonia Hylton
Career
At Mic, Hylton produced and wrote their first original video series, Flip the Script and Future Present and conducted the organization’s first interview with then- Vice President Joe Biden, discussing campus sexual assault and the 2016 Election. Before joining VICE, Hylton was popular for developing and producing seasons one and two of The Movement with Darnell Moore – a Television documentary covering activist movements across the United States. With VICE, Hylton has reported extensively on violence in Chicago, the affordable housing crisis, and the aftermath of Hurricane Irma (2017) in United States Virgin Islands, where she was one of the first reporters on the scene after the storm.
In an interview with Glamour (magazine), Antonia said
I wake up anxious—not just about what might happen in the news, but also about the private worries that I might have to find a way to compartmentalize or suppress in order to do my job.
I pride myself on being someone who can always push through and channel my anguish into good reporting.
It’s become harder to do, but what ultimately buoys me is a community of stellar Black journalists, of every age and professional level, who have been supporting each other every day.
We step up and answer the call.
Hylton landed a national exclusive when she interviewed ‘Jane Doe,’ an undocumented teen battling the administration over her right to an abortion and she developed and reported on “Zero Tolerance,” an HBO special episode that followed one Guatemalan family’s grueling journey to reunification after their separation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Awards
Antonia has received the Kathryn Ann Huggins and Rothschild Prizes for her writing and investigative research on race, mass incarceration and the history of psychiatry.
Education
In 2015, Antonia graduated magna cum laude, Harvard University where she majored in History, Science and Global Health.[13]