Michele Flores

Oct 28, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Michele Flores

For more than a decade, The Seattle Times’ Education Lab has focused intently on the importance of high-quality public education and the challenges of meeting that need for all children.  Now we’re bringing even more attention to that critical issue with an initiative centered on very young children — specifically on early childhood education, how it positions students for success and how it can be made more accessible.

Oct 9, 2024 | columbian.com | Michele Flores

Journalists should not be attacked for doing their jobs. To a rational reader that statement will seem obvious. You might even wonder why you should keep reading. Here’s why:Physical attacks, emotional abuse, threats, vile screeds rooted in racism and misogyny — all of these are increasingly directed at journalists with the not-so-subtle goal of scaring us from doing our jobs.

Oct 6, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Michele Flores

Journalists should not be attacked for doing their jobs. To a rational reader that statement will seem obvious. You might even wonder why you should keep reading. Here’s why: Physical attacks, emotional abuse, threats, vile screeds rooted in racism and misogyny — all of these are increasingly directed at journalists with the not-so-subtle goal of scaring us from doing our jobs.

Feb 4, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Michele Flores

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, Mike and Becky Hughes, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless when confronted with the enormity of the climate crisis facing our planet. And it’s true: The stakes are huge, the path forward steep.

Jan 31, 2024 | colorado.edu | Michele Flores

MLK Day convocation: Why is it important to hold these commemorative events? What’s the importance of keeping King’s legacy alive? Holding commemorative events such as the recent convocation is important because they remind us that our present struggles are not new. Rather, they are an echo of past struggles. The past is alive. The past is constantly moving through us. We sit in its wake and we reckon with its impact whether we realize it or not.