Wendi Thomas, MLK50
Wendi C. Thomas founded MLK50: Justice Through Journalism in 2017 as a one-year project that grew into a nonprofit newsroom focusing on poverty, power, and public policy in Memphis. Previously, Thomas was metro columnist and assistant managing editor at The Commercial Appeal, The Charlotte Observer, The Tennessean, and The Indianapolis Star. A 2016 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, she was also a member of ProPublica’s 2019 & 2020 Local Reporting Network.
