Alex Arriaga is a reporter and engagement journalist. She’s currently the audience engagement editor at New York Focus, a non-profit newsroom covering New York state government.
She supported outreach and engagement to communities impacted by the criminal justice system as an engagement reporter at The Marshall Project. Her reporting on prisons, jails, voting rights and felony courts was published with local and national outlets including NPR and USA Today.
Before that, she was a local reporter in Chicago, where her work on politics, elections, housing and civic participation centered on immigrant communities. Her work was published with City Bureau, Chicago Reader, Borderless Magazine,SouthSide Weekly, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Magazine and more.
About
I have over seven years of experience publishing investigative, political and engagement journalism at the local and national level with a focus on communities excluded from civic processes and power.
Projects
Why Inflation Price Hikes Are Even Worse Behind Bars
An additional “tax” on commissary goods means incarcerated people are paying far more for staple items like peanut butter and soap, a Marshall Project analysis found.
Media: NPR All Things Considered
Out on Parole in Colorado? You Can Vote.
More than two years after a reform bill, outdated government messaging still causes confusion for people on parole in Colorado. An explainer from The Marshall Project was distributed to parole offices and reentry service organizations throughout the state to bridge this information gap.
Media: Inside Wire Radio, which airs throughout the Colorado Department of Corrections, invited us to share our reporting
Experiments