Before joining Evanston RoundTable, My Ly covered the health disparities in Little Rock for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Ly is a graduate of Auburn University where she worked as a managing editor, community reporter and editor for The Auburn Plainsman, the student-run newspaper. While at Auburn she earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Beat: Racial equity issues in Evanston.
As the first municipality nationally to support reparations through public tax dollars, the racial equity reporter focuses on the reparations work; the building of a new school in the historically Black neighborhood; police reform, and a revamping of Evanston’s zoning code, which will potentially reshape the city’s racial demographics.