Corrie MacLaggan is the managing editor of The Texas Tribune, where she oversees day-to-day newsroom operations and runs the student fellowship program as well as the mentor program for fellows. Previously, the Austin native worked as a national correspondent for Reuters, writing and editing stories about Texas and nearby states and overseeing a network of freelance writers. She has also covered Texas government and politics for the Austin American-Statesman, writing about everything from gubernatorial races to food stamp application backlogs. She spent her first year at the Statesman writing for the newspaper\u2019s Spanish-language publication. She has worked as a freelance writer and editor in Mexico City, and her first reporting job was at the El Paso Times. Corrie is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied journalism and Spanish. She spent 10 years volunteering as a mentor for a Central Texas program that serves children of incarcerated parents, and was also an adviser to that mentor program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4640,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Corrie","last_name":"MacLaggan","title":"Managing Editor","organization":"The Texas Tribune","website":"","twitter":"corriemac","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"yoast_head":"\n