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Arkansas Advocate intends to show how state government affects the lives of everyday Arkansans so they can make informed decisions about themselves, their families and their communities.

Tess Vrbin came to the Advocate from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, where she reported on low-income housing and tenants' rights, and won awards for her coverage of 2021 flooding and tornado damage in rural Arkansas. She previously covered local government for The Commercial Dispatch in Mississippi and state government for the Columbia Daily Tribune in Missouri.

In his 50-year career, Sonny Albarado has been an investigations editor, a business editor, a city editor, an environmental reporter and a government reporter at newspapers in Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana. He retired from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2020 after serving as projects editor for 12 ½ years and returned to professional journalism in 2022 to lead the Arkansas Advocate. He is a former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists and a current member of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Brayden Morse is a student in the multimedia journalism program in the School of Media and Journalism at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. He's a contributor for Delta Digital News Service and KASU.

Laila Casiano is a student in the multimedia journalism program in the School of Media and Journalism at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

Delta Digital News Service is a working news lab environment for graduate and undergraduate students that feeds content to news organizations of all sizes and types. The lab serves as an anchor project for Arkansas State University’s School of Media and Journalism multimedia journalism program.

For more than 55 years, Arkansas PBS has served as a daily and essential resource for Arkansans. They empower learners of all ages and educate, inform, entertain, and inspire the community by creating, sharing, celebrating, and driving conversation around Arkansas stories. Learn more at myarkansaspbs.org.

Esther is a KUNR alum, who left the station in mid-October to take the afternoon host position at WBHM public radio in the much larger market of Birmingham, AL. She's excited for the career opportunity, where she will also be closer to family.

Rachel is a UM grad working in the MTPR news department.

Nancy Eve Cohen is a freelance reporter at New England Public Radio.