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Fairriona Magee is a public health reporter at The Trace. Magee has covered environmental issues, health disparities, food insecurity and public safety. Her reporting on environmental injustice was part of an award-winning package of stories on Missouri’s low-attention disasters. In 2020, as she covered health disparities for her online newsletter, she received a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellowship to report on health disparities during the pandemic for The Carolina Panorama, a Black publication in South Carolina. Her work at The Trace has included coverage of the research development to address gun violence as a public health issue, including stories on its intersection with the opioid crisis, the human toll of grief, effects on marginalized groups and developments in the field. She has a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, a historically Black university, and a master’s degree in journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism.