/https://static.texastribune.org/media/profiles/Shuran_Yu.jpg)
Jessica Shuran Yu will be a reporting fellow based in Austin. She earned a master’s in journalism from the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University, where she covered a variety of beats, including education, health care, and gender-based violence for Columbia News Service and her master's thesis. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Fordham University, where she freelanced sports stories for The Guardian US and reported for her campus newspaper, The Observer. Her reporting also has been published in Documented NY. Before studying journalism, Jessica was a competitive figure-skater for more than a decade. She speaks Mandarin.
After three sessions, Texas lawmakers passed a bill last month that defines consent and fixes what advocates called a loophole in Texas sexual assault laws. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/33f0567dbfdf3689503a57e16f37198f/0220%20Summer%20Willis%20REUTERS%20TT%2001.jpg)
A North Texas man charged with capital murder after slipping mifepristone into his girlfriend’s food signals another attempt to rein in abortion pills. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/2e5bd119f66788cbe73e82e3588f5dc3/Misoprostol%20Abortion%20Pills%20REUTERS%20TT.jpg)
Demonstrations in McAllen, Midland, Odessa, Austin and elsewhere in Texas were largely peaceful, as some protests went well into the night. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/32475e9b31927057b363863d8a13df59/0614%20Houston%20No%20Kings%20Protest%20AT%20TT%2010.jpg)
Demonstrations against immigration raids began in Los Angeles last week and have spread across the country, including to Texas. More are planned this weekend. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/fea0386198ae8dea86ea254148af7ebc/Abbott%20Sheriffs%20Border%20Coalition%20TT%20KCG%2001.jpg)