Mallory Falk
Mallory Falk was WWNO's first Education Reporter. Her four-part series on school closures received an Edward R. Murrow award. Prior to joining WWNO, Mallory worked as Communications Director for the youth leadership non-profit Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools. She fell in love with audio storytelling as a Middlebury College Narrative Journalism Fellow and studied radio production at the Transom Story Workshop.
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Schools across Texas are starting back up just as COVID-19 cases and hospital visits are surging. That’s led to growing anxiety among parents trying to navigate the safety protocols and options in their districts. -
After Texas was rocked by back-to-back mass shootings, some of the state’s top Republican leaders promised change. Gun safety advocates and Democratic lawmakers hoped gun violence prevention might become a priority. Yet the legislative session that just wrapped moved in the opposite direction. -
On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited El Paso to hear what local advocates have to say about immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. A central concern is the ongoing practice of expelling migrants and asylum seekers. -
Some local officials would like more power to respond to the virus as they see fit, but an appeals court already squashed one county's attempt to impose new restrictions. -
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid wants to help families plan in advance for worst case scenarios, so they're not scrambling during a medical crisis or after the death of a loved one. -
Texas passed a million confirmed coronavirus cases this week — the most in the U.S. Nowhere is the surge more acute than in El Paso. The West Texas city is being hammered by soaring cases and deaths. -
Last month, dozens of Cameroonian migrants were deported from the North Texas detention center, including several who said they were physically abused at Adams County Correctional Center in Mississippi. -
There were predictions that Democrats could flip the Texas House for the first time in 20 years, but early returns show they didn't win enough seats. -
When a gunman opened fire at El Paso's Cielo Vista Walmart last year, the store was packed with shoppers from both sides of the border. -
Tens of thousands of migrants, including asylum-seekers and unaccompanied children, have been turned away at the border since March. Now the administration wants to restrict asylum permanently.
