Two friends in North Texas, a journalist and medical student, wanted to find other Muslims who enjoy writing so they launched the Dallas chapter of the grassroots Muslim Writers Collective.
Covering Environmental Justice: Tips From the Texas Coast With Amal Ahmed. Journalist Amal Ahmed will visit the University of Missouri to talk about her Pulitzer Center-funded reporting from the front lines of climate change on the Texas Coast, where a massive expansion of export-oriented fossil fuel infrastructure threatens to harm local residents and increase carbon emissions globally. For the Texas Observer, Amal reported on how communities deep in one of the most oil- and gas-friendly states are fighting back against industry and pollution. She will share her tips for covering environmental justice and tell how to use data and on-the-ground reporting to find the story behind the story. Ahmed is a journalist based in Dallas, covering climate and the environment for Floodlight News. Previously, she was a reporter at the Texas Observer and a fact-checker at Texas Monthly, and her work has been published in outlets such as Southerly, The Atlantic, CityLab, The Texas Tribune
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