(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Faith, a high school student who spoke against Rep. Kera Birkeland's bill to narrow Utah's legal definitions of sex to exclude transgender people, at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. The Tribune agreed to only use Faith's first name because she feared retaliation for speaking out.
Emily is a statewatch reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune, where she has worked since 2022. She received her master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. There, she worked on investigative projects for The Washington Post and ProPublica. While writing, she's probably spinning something from her ever-expanding shelf of punk records.