Through a series of print and multimedia pieces, journalist Thomas will examine the ways that some Georgia schools divert at-risk children into the state’s 200-plus alternative schools, priming them for the criminal justice system.
Thomas’s work has appeared in People, Essence, Ebony, and The American Prospect, and other publications. She has been a Reporter Fellow at the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, and a Multimedia Fellow at the Kiplinger Public Affairs Journalism Training Program.The former Atlanta magazine staff writer has also been a television producer and radio co-host. In 2007, she was named Print Journalist of the Year by the Atlanta Press Club and Journalist of the Year for the southern region by the National Association of Black Journalists.