Alexis Wray is a reporting fellow at The 19th. She has covered HBCUs and Blackness for over four years, first as a freelance journalist for Scalawag, The Appalachian Voice and The Atlanta Voice and then as a reporter for Reckon. She lives in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.

Alexis is an alum of North Carolina A&T State University with a bachelor’s in journalism and mass communications and a Master of Science in communication and journalism innovation from Syracuse University.
"Free Palestine" sign held up by young Black student
PalestineElection 2024
With Just Days Left to Vote, Pro-Palestine Student Activists at HBCUs Are Divided
At historically black colleges in battleground states, some say they are casting a vote to save our democracy while others say they are withholding theirs to save the world.
Alexis Wray