Amber Roldan is in the accelerated masters program at the Missouri School of Journalism, studying reporting and writing with a women and gender studies minor. In summer 2026, she was an intern at The Coloradoan in Fort Collins. In the fall, she will finish her degree in New York, where she will complete an internship and work on a consumer-based research project that studies the effects of daily media saturation. Previously, she was at the Georgia Recorder as an Atlanta Press Club intern. She also worked as a community and city council beat reporter at the Columbia Missourian and as a writer for The Tasty Guide while studying abroad in Italy.
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Alec MacGillis
Alec MacGillis is a senior reporter at ProPublica, where his focus in recent years has included gun violence, economic inequality and the post-pandemic crisis in public education.
