Emily Ramshaw

Co-Founder and CEO

Emily Ramshaw is editor of The Texas Tribune, a non-profit politics and policy news website based in Austin. Previously, she spent six years reporting for The Dallas Morning News, first in Dallas, then in Austin. In April 2009 she was named Star Reporter of the Year by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors and the Headliners Foundation of Texas. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, Ramshaw received her B.A. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.        

Articles

Four of the five children who live in this dilapidated one-room home in Mexico Chiquito, a colonia in the Rio Grande Valley.

Conditions, health risks sicken Colonias residents

<p>Living without running water, sanitation services or paved roads, people living in Texas colonias face grim health risks, Hunt Grant recipient Emily Ramshaw reports for the Texas Tribune/New York Times.</p>

Health in the Colonias of Texas

Health in the Colonias of Texas

<p>Nearly half a million Texans live in substandard conditions in <em>colonias</em> -- 2,300 unincorporated and isolated border towns with limited access to potable water, sewer systems, electricity, sanitary housing or health care. Emily Ramshaw reports on their health conditions.</p><p>&nbsp;</p

Health in Texas' Colonias: Why Conditions Still Fall Short

<p>Nearly half a million Texans live in substandard conditions in <em>colonias</em> —2,300 unincorporated and isolated border towns with limited access to potable water, sewer systems, electricity, sanitary housing or health care. These predominantly Hispanic, overwhelmingly impoverished villages, which dot the 1,248-mile Texas-Mexico border from the Gulf of Mexico to El Paso, present a state public health nightmare. But despite decades of public outcry, campaign promises and legislative action, conditions in the <em>colonias</em> have improved relatively little. Using the Dennis A.