Mackenzie Mays

Mackenzie Mays is the California education editor for Political. She previously worked as the education reporter at The Fresno Bee and before that covered education at The Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia, focusing on rural communities. She is the recipient of a 2015 John Swett Award for Media Excellence from the California Teachers Association. She was a 2017 California Fellow, and her fellowship project focused on the Central Valley's high teen pregnancy rates and the impact of sex education.