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Megan Botel

Megan Botel

Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow Megan Botel is a Los Angeles-based print and radio journalist. She studied environmental policy and psychology at New York University and recently earned a master's degree in journalism at the University of Southern California. In 2020, she completed an internship at the Los Angeles Times. Her print and audio work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Religion News Service, L.A. Taco, Pasadena Weekly, PRX Remix and more. She is now a voting rights and democracy reporting fellow at The GroundTruth Project. Megan loves hammocks, the tropics, Indian-style cooking, salsa dancing and swimming in lakes wherever possible.
Faith

These women say they were sexually abused by Southern Baptist leaders. Now they’re forcing a reckoning

Tens of thousands gathered in June at the Music City Center in Nashville for the Southern Baptist Convention’s...

Sep 21, 2021
Faith

Alleging sex abuse failures, a survivor sues Southern Baptist Convention leaders

Since 2019, when Hannah-Kate Williams told her harrowing account of sexual abuse to a handful of Southern Baptist...

Aug 18, 2021
Culture and Identity

These Native American women are reclaiming a ‘stolen’ part of their identity: Their language

In 1980, when fourth-grader Quirina Geary’s class learned about Spanish missions and the Native American tribes they conquered,...

Apr 16, 2021
Environment

Living with fire: What California can learn from Native burns

MARIPOSA, Calif. ― Rain falls on the 300-year-old oaks on a cold midwinter morning as a group of...

Mar 10, 2021
Environment

Learning online without a home: How families devastated by Oregon’s fires are trying to keep up with school

MEDFORD, Ore. – By Sept. 8, the day Elda Medina, 33, was supposed to go to her daughter’s...

Jan 12, 2021
Democracy

How Black women worked to secure Joe Biden’s election as president

One hundred years after passage of the 19th Amendment, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris honored Black American women who “so often prove...

Dec 02, 2020
Rights

‘Women doing whatever we want’: The little-known fight for women’s financial rights

At 25 years old, Oklahoma City-native Terry Neese wanted to buy a building to expand her small but...

Nov 30, 2020
Democracy

‘An imperative enfranchisement effort’: Amid 2020 challenges, Oregon’s vote-by-mail founders reflect on a nationwide shift

Election Day was the latest deadline to postmark a mail-in ballot in most states.  Despite lawsuits filed by...

Nov 04, 2020
ON THE GROUND WITH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

‘Passing the baton’: Civil Rights era elders are helping protestors channel activism into voting for change

This dispatch is part of a series in collaboration with PBS American Experience that explores the expansion of...

Nov 02, 2020
Democracy

A year unlike any other for the Black American electorate

It will be hard for history books to encompass the months leading up to the 2020 election. The...

Oct 30, 2020
Democracy

The hidden keepers of American elections

Postcards from our Report from America corps members covering voting rights on the ground across the country. America's election system...

Oct 22, 2020
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