The Guardian US today announced the hirings of Adria Walker and Melissa Hellmann to the Guardian US’s Race and Equity team, which is led by deputy editor Lauren N. Williams, who joined the publication this past spring to spearhead its coverage of race, identity, and inequality. The new editorial positions form part of the Guardian’s long-term commitment to restorative justice over the next decade, which includes expanding its reporting on race in the US and UK and adding new roles in the Caribbean, South America and Africa.
Adria Walker has already contributed substantially to the Guardian US, and published work in Mississippi Today and the Jackson Free Press. A recent feature for Guardian US explored the historic and fraught election of Patrick Braxton, the first Black mayor of a rural town in Alabama. Another piece for Mississippi Today reported on the fallout that occurred when Roberta Bell, a Black former Louisiana corrections officer, agreed to care for an incarcerated woman’s newborn baby.
