WILSONVILLE – In many ways, it was like any other graduation ceremony. Several dozen graduates strode into a large room wearing robes and tasseled caps. “Pomp and Circumstance” played from […]
Natalie Pate, Oregon Capital Chronicle
Natalie Pate is a freelance journalist and author based in Salem, Oregon. She covered education for the Statesman Journal for more than seven years and was the co-founder and lead of the Salem Storytellers Project. She was an Investigative Reporters and Editors Fellow in 2021 and remains an IRE mentor and member of the Education Writers Association. She was named a 2022 EWA Reporting Fellow and published an in-depth series that summer on prison literacy programs. She is a graduate of Willamette University, where she majored in politics and French. Find her on Twitter @NataliePateGwin.
