James E. Causey is an award-winning special projects reporter and columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He has spent over 30 years as a professional journalist after becoming the first African-American high school intern at the Milwaukee Sentinel at age 15. He worked for the paper every summer through high school. He worked as a night cops’ reporter, earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Marquette University, followed by an M.B.A. from Cardinal Stritch University. In 2008, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he studied the effects of hip-hop music on urban youth.
