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Karen Brooks Harper

Health and Human Services Reporter for The Texas Tribune

@kbrooksharper

Karen reports on health and human services for The Texas Tribune. She arrived in Texas in 1995 to join the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, where she covered immigration and the drug war in Mexico for the Knight-Ridder newspapers. Harper has covered Texas politics for more than two decades for news organizations such as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News and Reuters.