Covering Manufactured Scenes: Their Spectacle, Your Story

Thursday, March 12, 2026
12 – 2 p.m.
Lee Hills, 715 Elm Street, Columbia, MO 65211. Room 303
and Zoom

• Reporting beyond the spectacle
• Uncovering hidden narratives
• Reframing the scene with intention

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. She was recently featured in Brooke Kroeger’s “Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism.” (Knopf).