Cecilia Milmoe

Investigations Reporter The Chicago Reporter

Cecilia Milmoe most recently served as the Features Editor at The Daily Illini, the campus paper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As the editor, she wrote and assigned stories about many topics, including racial justice, women’s rights, protests, the LGBTQ+ community and discrimination. Milmoe’s interest in journalism stems from her love of storytelling. As an avid writer, she strives to tell the stories of people whose voices are ignored, and she sees journalism as the perfect platform to tell these stories.

In her new role, Cecilia will help mobilize and execute investigative coverage of high-stakes stories with the mission of identifying important accountability targets on a myriad of topics. She will also drive complex long-journalism to help strengthen the Reporter’s core competencies and ambitious work.

Within her community, Milmoe worked to grow and facilitate spaces for LGBTQ+ youth, writers and readers. She is involved in several writer’s circles, providing feedback and aid for writers in her community.

Milmoe was born in Chicago and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.