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Tamara Ward’s Biography

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Tamara Ward is an award-winning journalist, a 2023 NABJ Pew Youth Justice Fellow, and a current MS candidate in Artificial Intelligence for Business. She produced a data-driven series on disproportionate school-based arrests in Maryland's public schools. A former E&E News fellow, she covered environmental and energy policy on Capitol Hill, the 2020 presidential election, House impeachment hearings, and the COVID-19 outbreak.

Previously a staff writer for APG Media, she reported on government an…

Tamara Ward’s Journalist Portfolio

From homeroom to handcuffs: Part 1 - Data shows African American and disabled students are dispro...

From homeroom to handcuffs: Part 1 - Data shows African American and disabled students are dispro...

This article examines how school-based arrests in Maryland have fallen overall but remain disproportionately …

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Tackling the U.S. Opioid Crisis: A Data-Driven Solution and Policy Recommendations

Tackling the U.S. Opioid Crisis: A Data-Driven Solution and Policy Recommendations

The paper presents a data-driven strategy to curb the opioid crisis by detecting diversion of legal prescript…

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How sewage reveals 'real numbers' on scale of outbreak

How sewage reveals 'real numbers' on scale of outbreak

This E&E News article explains how wastewater-based epidemiology—analyzing sewage for SARS-CoV-2 genetic mate…

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'Going, going, gone': Rising seas drown island center

'Going, going, gone': Rising seas drown island center

Rising seas have submerged much of Great Fox Island in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay, forcing the Chesapeake Bay …

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Articles

Efforts to curb over-policing in Maryland’s public schools 

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By Tamara Ward Special to the AFRO Erika Strauss Chavarria, a former high school Spanish teacher of 12 years in Howard County Public Schools, just recently transitioned from educator to student advocate. “My first year teaching, I saw a student that I cared very much about get arrested. I never saw him again. He got hauled off the school grounds,” Strauss Chavarria said of an incident at Wilde Lake High School.
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From homeroom to handcuffs: Part 3 - The evolution of a school resource officer and his influence on state policy

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By Tamara Ward
| Afro-American Newspapers Verified
By Tamara Ward Special to the AFRO Some Marylanders argue police presence in schools contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline; others believe law enforcement enhances school security. And then there is a middle-ground segment of the population who believes school resource officers, or SROs, can bring benefits to students–when trained and used correctly.
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From homeroom to handcuffs: Part 2 - Resource officers, poor academic instruction blamed for fueling disproportionate school-to-prison pipeline

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By Tamara Ward
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By Tamara Ward Special to the AFRO School resource officers (SROs) and zero-tolerance policies have long shouldered the blame for the disproportionate introduction of Black and disabled students into the school-to-prison pipeline. “I see the pipeline. The pipeline is alive here – alive and well, in this county,” said Melissa Feliciano, an assistant public defender with Maryland Department of the Public Defender in Harford County for 22 years.
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Awards

Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association Editorial Contest

2018 - State Government Reporting

Staff writer Tamara Ward won first place in the newspaper’s division for her state government reporting on lawmakers debating the removal of the controversial Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney statue from the Maryland State House.

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Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association Editorial Contest

2018 - Online Feature

Staff writer Tamara Ward placed second in the Recorder’s division for her online piece reflecting on the death of Calvert County’s well-known homeless resident, Bill Hall.

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