Rebecca Schneid is a 2023 Austin-based reporting fellow at Texas Tribune. A Duke University graduate, she was born and raised in South Florida. She studied English, journalism and gender studies and worked as a writer for the 9th Street Journal and Form Magazine, photo editor at the Duke Chronicle and DJ at WXDU-FM radio station on campus. She has previously worked at the Los Angeles Times, Durham’s alt-weekly Indy Week, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Elle and The Guardian. She also writes poetry, for which she’s won an Academy of American Poets University Prize.