As Portland weighs expansion of an alternative crisis-response program, new data from a MindSite News-Medill investigation shows police often deploy force on residents who are unhoused or grappling with mental illness.
Audrey Azzo, MindSite News
Audrey Azzo is a Lebanese-American journalist and researcher based in Chicago. An alumnus of the American University of Beirut and Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, she pursues data-driven approaches to research and report on unjust systemic practices related to human-rights abuses. She is currently the program coordinator for the Peer Learning Community, a cohort that sits within Medill’s Local News Accelerator and provides peer-to-peer learning opportunities to the first round of Press Forward Chicago grantees. Her work supports Chicago’s newsrooms in building infrastructure for a robust and inclusive local news ecosystem.