Aallyah Wright is a native of Clarksdale, Mississippi and a Mississippi Delta reporter covering education and local government for Mississippi Today, a nonprofit digital news outlet. She is also a weekly news co-host on WROX Radio (97.5 FM) and collaborator with StoryWorks/Reveal Labs from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Aallyah has a bachelor’s in journalism with minors in communications and theater from Delta State University. She is a 2018 Educating Children in Mississippi Fellow at the Hechinger Report, and co-founder of the Mississippi Delta Public Newsroom. She serves as a board member for the Lower Mississippi River Foundation, GRIOT Arts Inc.. She was recently selected as an advisory board member for the Education Writers Association Journalist Advisory Board 2020-21.
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