The Texas Tribune welcomes a new group of fellows this fall

Carolina Bazante is an Ecuadorian journalist specializing in fact-checking who joins the Tribune as a Douglas Tweedale Memorial fellow through the International Center for Journalists. Her work has been featured across major media platforms, including print, television, radio and digital outlets in Latin America, the United States and Spain. Since 2020, she has focused on studying disinformation and developing strategies to combat it. She is the founder and director of Lupa Media, an independent fact-checking and media literacy organization based in her hometown of Quito.

Houston-based events marketing fellow Briannah Dilworth was born in Amarillo and raised in Houston. She is a senior at Texas Southern University, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a concentration in advertising and public relations. Briannah has served as TSU’s Miss School of Communication and as the marketing and communication aide to the associate vice president. She previously interned at Civil Society as a communication and media manager.

Jakob Maurer is an Arthur F. Burns Fellow based in Austin. He resides in Frankfurt, Germany, and is a political reporter for Frankfurter Rundschau, a national newspaper. As part of the international exchange program, Jakob will dive deep into Texan culture and politics, focusing on immigration and Latinx issues. He studied journalism in Mainz, Germany, and Valencia, Spain. Jakob is from Regensburg, Bavaria.

Xiomara Moore is a Columbia Journalism School/Institute for Nonprofit News reporting fellow based in Austin. Raised in Delaware, she has written articles about education, agriculture, local businesses and underrepresented communities for Delaware Public Media and Delaware State News. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Delaware and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.

Isabela Ocampo Restrepo is an Austin-based engagement fellow who works closely with the Audience team to find creative ways to interact with the Tribune’s readers. She previously was an audience engagement intern at the Austin American-Statesman and a social media intern for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. She was raised in Medellin, Colombia, and is getting her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

Juan Salinas II is a Dallas Press Club Foundation reporting fellow based in Arlington. He is a senior at the University of Texas at Arlington majoring in journalism and a transfer student from Tarrant County College, where he worked at the student newspaper, The Collegian. As an intern at public radio station KERA, he covered state politics and local governments. He was a yearlong reporting fellow at the Fort Worth Report and worked as a summer fellow for the Tribune. Juan was born and raised in the North Side neighborhood of Fort Worth.

Lorianne Willett is an Austin-based photography fellow and a journalism student at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she was a multimedia intern at KUT News, a photography intern at Texas Connect, and the photo editor at The Daily Texan, the campus newspaper. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Lorianne spent part of her childhood moving around until her family settled in San Antonio.