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Traci Angel

Traci Angel is a writer, editor, author and teacher in Kansas City. She writes profiles and features for regional publications and is an adjunct who teaches communication and journalism classes. Her book, The Scars of Project 459: The Environmental Story of the Lake of the Ozarks (scarsofproject459.com), covers the developmental history of the iconic Midwestern destination.

Plain-spoken words about the "7 stages of severe COVID death" go viral

Plain-spoken words about the “7 stages of severe COVID death” go viral

In late August, the Los Angeles Times published an unvarnished description of illness and death from COVID-19, written by a respiratory therapist who has worked on the front lines of…
September 28, 2021
What a journalist mom learns from her daughter's foray into writing the news

What a journalist mom learns from her daughter’s foray into writing the news

My daughter Zara, who just turned 9, attended her first reporting interview as an infant, napping next to my chest in a snuggly baby wrap tied around my waist.Traci Angel,…
May 18, 2021
Large writing lessons from a small space

Large writing lessons from a small space

A morning’s hasty scroll through Facebook earlier this week showed the above photo from Traci Angel, an author, teacher and freelancer based in Kansas City and a recent Storyboard contributor.…
November 22, 2018
Immigration reporting from the inside-out: through the mouths and eyes of babes

Immigration reporting from the inside-out: through the mouths and eyes of babes

America’s debate over immigration has played out to the recorded cries of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, to broadcast images of tears and hugs as some…
August 14, 2018