Crisis Manager
Executive editor Kathy Blackwell and her team have chronicled the pandemic's impact on the employees and owners of Texas’s hospitality companies.
Texas Monthly executive editor Kathy Blackwell.
Jeff Wilson
For the past year, executive editor Kathy Blackwell has deftly guided our coverage of two industries in crisis: travel and dining. She and her team have chronicled the pain and destruction that COVID-19 has wreaked on the employees and owners of Texas’s hospitality companies—as well as the innovative ways those businesses have found to safely serve their customers.
Kathy and company have mirrored that creativity in their journalism. They’ve focused much of