Wendy Todd is a St. Louis-based writer and reporter.. Prior to joining The St. Louis American, she worked for Community News, a hyperlocal newspaper in St. Louis covering North St. Louis. Her previous experience includes writing for the University of Missouri–St. Louis news site and quarterly magazine, and handling communications for various nonprofits. After freelancing for years writing culture pieces for outlets including Ebony.com, HuffPost and The Washington Post, Todd joined St. Louis Public Radio as a social media coordinator, creating content focused on socioeconomic disparities among African Americans in St. Louis, with additional news reporting. She earned a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Todd also completed fellowships with the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education and the Google News Initiative.
Beat: “Unlock the Ballot” covers how “voting to policies” pipelines impact St. Louisans.
“Unlock the Ballot” is a journalistic initiative by The St. Louis American to inform local readers and audiences in the city and county about down ballot candidates and propositions, counter disinformation about elections, increase voter knowledge to provide more awareness about “voting to policies” pipelines that bring into sharper focus how voting impacts communities on the neighborhood level. It is also an effort to accelerate turnout in primary races.