Lilly Ana Fowler
Social Justice ReporterLilly Ana Fowler reports on social justice issues for KNKX. Before joining KNKX, she worked for the online news organization Crosscut — a partner of KCTS 9, Seattle’s PBS station.
She's also worked as a producer with the national PBS show "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" and a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Salon.com, Slate Magazine, Mother Jones, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She was born in Mexico, grew up in the border town of Nogales, and is fluent in Spanish.
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Two women have sued the prominent Seattle nonprofit Casa Latina – known for dispatching undocumented workers to day labor jobs – over sexual harassment allegations. -
A prominent immigrant rights nonprofit based in Seattle is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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Debora Juarez, who was first elected to the Seattle City Council in 2015, will serve as council president for the next two years.
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Ever since GEO Group, the private prison company that runs the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Tacoma, suspended its detainee worker program last month, some immigrants have been speaking out about conditions deteriorating.
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A Mexican immigrant who had taken sanctuary in a Seattle church for almost three years out of fear of deportation announced he is finally able to leave and reunite with family.
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The family of Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old Black mother of four killed by Seattle police four years ago, has reached a $3.5 million settlement with the city.
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KNKX reporter Lilly Ana Fowler joins All Things Considered host Ed Ronco for election analysis. They look at who won, why and what's next for our region. Political consultant Crystal Fincher weighs in with her thoughts.
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The first round of results are in for the Nov. 2 election. We have updates on mayoral races in Seattle and Tacoma, the Seattle city attorney contest, Seattle City Council and King County Council races and more.
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Detainees who clean dishes, floors and do other work at Tacoma’s ICE detention center must be paid Washington state’s minimum wage. That’s according to ruling handed down Wednesday in federal court. GEO Group, the private prison company that runs the facility, had paid working detainees as little as $1 per day.
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There's a growing crop of politicians who identify as abolitionists. That includes two candidates for Seattle office on the Nov. 2 ballot. Nikkita Oliver and Nicole Thomas-Kennedy discuss abolitionism and how it will affect their leadership if elected.
