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T-Squared
T-Squared is an occasional series about the inner workings of The Texas Tribune.
T-Squared: Our latest newsroom hires
Emily Foxhall, Laura Garcia, Michele Gonzalez, Julia Guilbeau and Stephen Simpson are the latest additions to the Tribune’s news and events teams.
T-Squared: Sonal Shah is The Texas Tribune’s next CEO
Sonal brings to the Tribune an extraordinary record in fundraising and strategic leadership. A veteran of Google, Georgetown University, Goldman Sachs and the United Way, she has built a career driving social impact and civic engagement.
T-Squared: New journalism fellowship for HBCU students
Fellowships will be available in spring, summer and fall for Texas graduate and undergraduate students at historically Black colleges and universities.
T-Squared: Three reporters are joining us to cover law, democracy and environment
Roxanna Asgarian will cover law and courts, Robert Downen will cover challenges to democracy and Alejandra Martinez will cover the environment.
T-Squared: Liz Cheney will close #TribFest22
The Wyoming congresswoman and vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee is the grand finale of this year’s Texas Tribune Festival. With a critical election looming and another one just over the rise, she’ll talk about the state of our democracy in the final conversation of our jam-packed ideas conference.
T-Squared: Alejandro Serrano joins us as a general assignment reporter
A graduate of Northeastern University, Serrano has reported for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle. He’ll remain based in Houston.
T-Squared: Yuriko Schumacher joins The Texas Tribune’s data visuals team
Yuriko will work as a designer-developer to report and create engaging interactive stories about Texas.
T-Squared: Introducing our fall 2022 student fellows
These 14 students are from diverse backgrounds but share a desire to support the Tribune’s mission of informing and engaging Texans.
T-Squared: We’re sunsetting our COVID-19 data tracker
After nearly two and a half years, we’re no longer tracking daily coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, deaths and vaccinations in Texas.



