Staff and Boards
Meet EWA’s staff, board of directors and advisory boards.
JAB Member
Ruth Serven Smith is the education editor at AL.com and leads The Alabama Education Lab and several staff and audience initiatives....
JAB Member
Liz Willen, a longtime education journalist, has led the award-winning The Hechinger Report staff as editor-in-chief since 2011....
JAB Member
Emmeline Zhao is The 74's Chief Creative Officer, steering the development and execution of special projects, multimedia, events, audience development, and lead...
President
Eva-Marie Ayala is the Education Lab editor for The Dallas Morning News, where she oversees coverage of how state and local policies impact students...
Board Member
Daarel Burnette II is a senior editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education....
Board Member
Sarah Carr is currently an independent journalist. Before that, she led The Great Divide, an investigative team at the Boston Globe focused on race and inequali...
Board Member
Wayne Carter is a Special Assignment Reporter for NBCUniversal Local, NBC 5 News Dallas/Ft. Worth....
