Immigration and Human Rights Beat

Erika Konig is an immigration and human rights reporter at the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis. Before joining Report for America, Konig worked as a reporting intern at the Institute while earning her bachelor's degree on campus. Her coverage of public transportation cutbacks affecting the poor and disabled, food insecurity in Memphis, and abuses of President Trump's immigration crackdown has been republished in news sites across Tennessee. Konig also interned at WMC-TV, writing news scripts and editing videos for the evening news broadcast. A first-generation college graduate who immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico as a child and became a naturalized U.S. citizen last year, Konig is enrolled in the University of Memphis' open-source investigative reporting program.