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Lylla Younes was a reporter and developer on ProPublica’s news apps team. Her work mapping cancer-causing industrial pollution in Louisiana helped lead to the suspension of Formosa Plastic's permit in St. James Parish and won the 2020 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting. In 2020, she was part...
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McKenzie Funk is a reporter at ProPublica’s Northwest hub and is based in Bellingham, Washington. He previously contributed to Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Harper’s, Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Times Magazine, covering everything from oil exploration in Arctic Alaska to private firefighters in the American West to the global...
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Malavika Kannan is a Gen Z writer from Florida, now based in Brooklyn. Her debut young adult novel, All the Yellow Suns, was published by Little & Brown in 2023, and she writes about identity and culture for San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. On the internet...
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Mara writes about health and human services stories happening in local communities, the Montana statehouse and the court system. She also produces the Shared State podcast in collaboration with MTPR and YPR. Before joining Montana Free Press, Mara worked in podcast and radio production at Slate and WNYC. She was...
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Maria Briceño is a PolitiFact reporting fellow who fact-checks misinformation in Spanish at PolitiFact. She previously interned as a space reporter with WMFE 90.7 in Orlando and at Oviedo Community News. Maria graduated from the University of Central Florida with a major in journalism and a minor in digital media....
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María Celeste Masís Ocampo (she/her) is a Costa Rican writer and journalist currently pursuing degrees in Integrated Marketing Communications and English with a writing emphasis at John Brown University in Arkansas. Though born and raised in Costa Rica, María Celeste has lived in five different countries throughout the Americas, an...
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María Méndez works on efforts to better connect with Texans and writes explainers and guides. She strives to answer Texans' questions about politics and public policy and to help them find resources. Previously, she reported on public education at the Austin American-Statesman, border and business issues at Texas Public Radio...
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Maria Ramirez Uribe is an immigration reporter at PolitiFact. Previously she served as a Report for America corps member, working as a race and equity reporter in Charlotte, North Carolina, for WFAE, an NPR member station, and La Noticia, the state’s biggest Spanish-language paper. Before this, Maria worked as a...
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Mariel Padilla is a general assignment reporter. Previously she covered breaking news at The New York Times where she contributed to COVID-19 coverage that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, compiled data at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and contributed to a 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning project at The Cincinnati...
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I report on issues related to public lands, water, mining, oil and gas, and agriculture across the Four Corners region and beyond. I am especially interested in how the energy transition is transforming the West. Before joining ProPublica, I wrote for The Desert Sun, the Center for Public Integrity and...