Michelle García

Michelle García

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, 2023).

Ivy Reed

Student

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

Workshops / Events

Lessons from the Field: Thursday, April 2, 2026
New York Times Magazine Writer Caleb Gayle
Introduction: Laine Cibulskis, senior at the Missouri School of Journalism and WWG student researcher
Lessons from the Field: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Michelle García, Winner of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize
Introduction: Ivy Reed, junior at the Missouri School of Journalism and WWG student researcher