The Q&A: Baker Harrell
In this week's Q&A, we interview Baker Harrell, the CEO of It’s Time Texas, a nonprofit organization devoted to studying and promoting health in Texas. Full Story
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Madeline Conway is a summer 2016 newsletters fellow at the Tribune and recent graduate of Harvard, where she studied history and sociology and was managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. Prior to the Tribune, Madeline worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade as a metro intern.
In this week's Q&A, we interview Baker Harrell, the CEO of It’s Time Texas, a nonprofit organization devoted to studying and promoting health in Texas. Full Story
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