Henrick Karoliszyn

Henrick Karoliszyn is an award-winning journalist, doctoral student, and private detective. After passing the State of Louisiana Board of Private Investigators exam, he was hired as an investigator at the Phelps Dunbar law firm where he leads investigations for cases throughout the Gulf Coast and London. Prior to entering the legal field, he worked as a reporter. Most recently as a staff writer at the Gannett-owned New Orleans City Business journal, he wrote long format stories about law, health care policy, and energy. A former national correspondent at the New York Daily News from 2008-2013, he was previously hired as a New Orleans Times-Picayune staff writer before working the criminal justice beat at the Wall Street Journal from 2015-2017.

His freelance stories have appeared in The New York Times, Aeon Magazine, Fusion, Coffee or Die Magazine, The Crime Report, the New York Post and the commemorative book, Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years. His essay, "Precognitive Police," was anthologized in the textbook, Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing, alongside works by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jamaica Kincaid, Sherman Alexie and others.

Henrick’s journalism has been recognized with awards from the Society of Silurians, the National Association of Black Journalists, Wesleyan University and the National Headliner Awards program among other prizes. He received a Kiplinger Fellowship in public affairs journalism at The Ohio State University, a juvenile justice fellowship at the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, an H.F. Langeloth crime reporting fellowship and the Journalist Law School fellowship at LMU Loyola Law School. His in-depth reporting on Occupy Wall Street and the Sandy Hook mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut was submitted to the Pulitzer Board. He's been invited to discuss his work on NBC, NPR, and other news outlets.

Henrick is working towards his Doctor of Social Work (DSW) degree at the University of Southern California. He holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree from New York University where he studied communications with an NYU Dean's Scholarship. He also holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in communications and mass media from NYU where he was a Founder's Day recipient and NYU Scholar.

Henrick is a motorcycle enthusiast, nomadic traveler, three-time marathoner, and lifelong surfer. Live music, pulp novellas, noir films, and literary fiction are some of his passions. A Canadian-American dual citizen, he lives in New Orleans.  You can reach him on Twitter @Henrick_AK