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Ginny Monk
Children’s Issues and Housing Reporter
Fellowships Received
Ginny Monk is the children's issues and housing reporter at CT Mirror, covering topics ranging from foster care and child welfare to affordable housing and zoning. She began her journalism career at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette where she covered housing, homelessness, and juvenile justice on the investigations team. Along the way Monk was awarded a 2019 Data Fellowship and 2022 National Fellowship through the Center for Health Journalism. She also participated in the Center’s Engagement Initiative, producing a children’s coloring book to accompany her in-depth Data Fellowship project on evictions, “Notice to Quit.” She graduated from the University of Arkansas Lemke School of Journalism in 2017 and moved to Connecticut in 2021.
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Explore a children's book that helps kids understand eviction and find support during challenging times, while community engagement efforts in Connecticut make a difference.
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The author meets Elijah (10), who shares board games but hesitates to discuss eviction. They bond over shared interests, and Elijah's advice helps others.
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These coloring pages for kids aim to help answer some of the questions reporter Ginny Monk heard from kids while reporting her eviction series “Notice to Quit.”
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It’s not uncommon for families to spend weeks or months looking for a new apartment after an eviction
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The committee votes are the first steps forward for the transit-oriented and ‘fair share’ housing bills.
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A public hearing on the bills addressed issues including evictions, workforce housing and fair housing.
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Finding people to actually talk about their experiences is tough. For many people, eviction is shrouded in shame.
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This project was produced as project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2022 National Fellowship and its Kristy Hammam Fund for Health Journalism....
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This project was produced as project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2022 National Fellowship and its Kristy Hammam Fund for Health Journalism....
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Carmen Diaz remembers what it was like to be forced out of her home — to be a 13- or 14-year-old who had to pack up her room and stay at a family friend’s house, unsure of where her family would go next.