

Ivy Reed
Ivy Reed is a junior at the University of Missouri majoring in journalism and women’s and gender studies. She has previously covered healthcare and higher education at The Columbia Missourian, reported for Columbia’s NPR member station KBIA, and worked in abolitionist organizing in her hometown of St. Louis. Ivy’s interests lie at the intersection of storytelling, solidarity journalism, and community organizing. At Mizzou, she also works on feminist media research with Dr. Joy Jenkins of the journalism school, DJs for student radio, and studies creative writing and Spanish.

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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.
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Recent Stories
Watch here for new stories regularly.
“The Unequal Effects of School Closings”
Alec MacGillis
The New Yorker/ProPublica, August 2024
“How a Refugee’s American Dream Ended in a Police Killing”
Ted Genoways
The New Republic, May 2023
“Black, Evangelical and Torn”
Caleb Gayle
New York Times Magazine, March 2023
“The Out Crowd”
Molly O’Toole
This American Life, November 2019