Eilís O'Neill
Reporter
About
Eilís is a reporter covering health. She focuses on health inequities, substance use and addiction, infectious diseases, mental health, and reproductive and maternal health.
Eilís came to KUOW in 2016. Before that, she worked as a freelance reporter, first in South America, and then in New York City. Her work has aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, APM’s Marketplace, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and other programs.
Eilís' work as part of a team covering Covid-19 outbreaks and vaccine hesitation in Washington won a regional Murrow award, as did a series about children who lost parents to Covid-19. Her series about the opioid crisis on the Olympic Peninsula won several regional Society for Professional Journalists awards as well as a national Public Media Journalists Association award.
Eilís grew up in Seattle and was a high school intern at KUOW, in the program that later became RadioActive. She has a Master's in Science, Health, and Environment Reporting from Columbia University. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, Spanish
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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UW Medicine employee, green card holder detained by ICE in Tacoma
Lewelyn Dixon was on her way back to the Seattle area on Feb. 28 after visiting family in the Philippines when she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sent to the immigration detention facility in Tacoma.
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The U.S. needs kidney doctors. The Trump administration deported one despite her valid visa
Dr. Rasha Alawieh's deportation is the latest in a recent string of unusual arrests by immigration officials at U.S. borders, and not the first in which attorneys and judges have decried a lack of due process.
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Nearly 3 million immigrants got amnesty under Reagan. Some of them still work on Washington's farms
As immigration enforcement ramps up, farms and growers in Washington and across the U.S. are at risk of losing their workforce and the skill that comes with seasoned workers.
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Federal judge in Seattle questions Trump's move to block refugees
A federal judge in Seattle is questioning the U.S. government’s compliance with a court order to restart the refugee resettlement program.
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¿Quienes son los habitantes del estado de Washington que corren peligro de ser deportados? Aquí 5 cosas a tener en cuenta
En su campaña presidecial, Donald Trump, se comprometió a deportar a millones de personas que se encuentran en Estados Unidos sin un estatus legal. Una vez asumido el mando, esta promesa no se dio a esperar.
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Domestic workers could get guaranteed breaks, minimum wage under proposed Washington state bill
Domestic workers in Washington state don’t have guaranteed breaks or minimum pay — unless they’re in the city of Seattle. A bill currently before the Washington state Legislature would change that.
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Fearing deportation, immigrants are missing appointments at Seattle-area clinics
Providers at Seattle area-clinics that serve immigrant communities say that ever since President Trump returned to office, many more patients than usual have been missing appointments.
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Who's at risk of deportation in Washington state? 5 things to know
KUOW looked into who is at risk of deportation in Washington state: how many immigrants are here without legal status, where they immigrated from, what type of jobs they do, and more.
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New refugees in Washington are promised 90 days of support. A Trump order ended that
Refugee resettlement organizations received a memo Friday, Jan. 24, ordering them to stop helping refugees and not to incur additional expenses. The stop-work order has threatened the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of refugees in Washington state.
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Lawsuit challenges Trump’s suspension of program that helps detained immigrants
A lawsuit was filed Friday challenging President Donald Trump’s order to stop legal orientation programs for people held in immigration detention centers. The lawsuit aims to restore immediate access to those programs.
