Aliyya Swaby

Swaby has covered public education for the Tribune since 2016. She was a Livingston Award finalist in 2019 for a series on school desegregation and won the Texas State Teachers Association School Bell award in 2018. Previously, Swaby worked for the hyperlocal nonprofit New Haven Independent, where she covered education, zoning and transit. Swaby also spent a year freelance reporting in Panama on social issues affecting Black Panamanian communities.