About

Aliyya Swaby is a reporter for ProPublica’s South unit, writing about children, families & inequality. She was previously the public education reporter at The Texas Tribune, where she wrote about state policies’ disproportionate effect on low-income students and students of color. She was a 2019 Livingston Awards finalist for a series on the legacy of school segregation in Texas and a 2020 National Awards for Education Reporting winner for beat reporting.

Previously, she covered New Haven Public Schools, transit and zoning for the New Haven Independent, a hyperlocal nonprofit. She spent a year in Panama freelance reporting on social and political issues in Black communities, on a funded fellowship. She is an alumna of Yale University.