Carrington York is the Daybreak Asia Reporter at Bloomberg News and an inaugural Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellow. Learn more about Carrington in this Q&A. Please describe your reporting project in less than 200 words. My investigation explores the profit motives behind Delta 8 safety regulation efforts between two of the U.S. market’s…

Daniel Parra is a reporter and an inaugural Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellow. Learn more about Daniel in this Q&A. Please describe your reporting project in less than 200 words. I am currently investigating the challenges and inequities faced by undocumented students in the City University of New York. What made you apply…

Williamena Kwapo is a multimedia reporter and an inaugural Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellow. Learn more about Williamena in this Q&A. Please describe your reporting project in less than 200 words. My reporting project tackles the ongoing issue of pedestrian fatalities in Sacramento. My project looks at datasets to determine where people are…

Caroline Beck is an education reporter at the Indianapolis Star and an inaugural Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellow. Learn more about Caroline in this Q&A. Please describe your reporting project. I am evaluating the inequities of Indiana’s universal private school voucher program, which helps families pay for private schooling with state dollars. We…

Kaisha Young is a producer at PBS NewsHour and an inaugural Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellow. Learn more about Kaisha in this Q&A. Please describe your reporting project. Across the U.S., 911 call centers are quietly integrating AI into their workflows. From AI systems that triage calls and transcribe frantic voices to chatbots…

Gaige Davila is a freelance journalist and an inaugural Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellow. Learn more about Gaige in this Q&A. Please describe your reporting project. This is a two-part investigation into how liquefied natural gas export plants actually impact communities versus the benefits they promised for said communities. The first part focuses…

Reynaldo Leaños Jr. is a producer at Latino USA and an inaugural Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellow. Learn more about Reynaldo in this Q&A. Please describe your reporting project. My story looks at how the Trump administration’s slashing of USAID impacted a local LGBTQ organization in Guatemala and what the larger ripple effects…