I'm thrilled to announce that Jaden Edison is rejoining The Texas Tribune as our next K-12 education reporter. He starts on June 20. Jaden comes to us from the nonprofit Connecticut Mirror, where he has covered criminal justice and voting rights. He wrote about a women's prison that halted Muslim prayer services as war in the Middle East escalated; chronicled the impact on Black residents of a landmark police accountability law; and revealed how the state's lack of early voting has hurt Black and Latino residents.
Jaden graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in May 2022, with a focus on investigative journalism, and spent the next three months at the Tribune. Here, he covered breaking news — including the deaths of 53 migrants whose bodies were found in a tractor-trailer abandoned in the San Antonio area — and contributed to our early Uvalde coverage. Jaden also wrote movingly about the concerns of Black Texans two years after the murder of George Floyd.
