
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.

Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
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Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.