Michelle García

Michelle García is a journalist who has written extensively about the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. identity, politics and the nation’s violent mythologies for the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. She is the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize and the Covering Climate Now Award. García is the creator and editor of ReWriting the West, a collection of essays published in partnership with Guernica. Her essay, “Death of a Dream,” was a Best American Essays notable. Her work has been supported by a Soros Equality Fellowship, Western Journalism Fellowship through the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Fund for Investigative Journalism and residencies through the Lannan Foundation, the Dobie Paisano fellowship, and Blue Mountain Center. She was recently featured in Brooke Kroeger’s “Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism.” (Knopf)

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Ivy Reed

Ivy Reed is a junior at the University of Missouri majoring in journalism and women’s and gender studies.

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