Evey Wilson Wetherbee
Evey Wilson Wetherbee is an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker in Georgia. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Journalism at Mercer University.
Her film ‘Saving Juliette’ is about one town’s fight for clean water. It screened nationally at film festivals, was a finalist for the 2022 Livingston Award for local reporting, and is now available on PBS. Her most recent project is a six-part investigative podcast called Prison Town that investigates systemic issues within the Georgia Department of Corrections by following a series of murders. Prison Town was nominated for a Peabody. Evey was the Benjamin von Sternfels Rosenthal Grantee for Investigative Journalism and a Rosalyn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Reporting last year. She is working on the second season of her investigative podcast, exploring mental health in the justice system.