Prior to joining the Times Union, Carroll reported internationally on migration with the support of the Wolff Fellowship. She was a 2025 Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow, and her work has appeared in The Guardian, Progressive Magazine, and the Cap Times. Carroll got her start in journalism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she served as managing editor and later chair of the board of directors of the independent student newspaper The Badger Herald. She grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and speaks German, Spanish, and Arabic, and is currently learning Turkish.
Beat: New Americans in Upstate New York
While the experiences of immigrants in New York City are well chronicled, the challenges and successes of these communities in upstate New York — from urban centers to farm country — are less understood. As migrants transform places such as Schenectady and Utica that had previously suffered steady population loss, our New Americans reporter tells the stories of the visible new arrivals working to establish themselves as well as those forced by current federal policy to remain more hidden.