Allie Gross is a Los Angeles native and Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism alum, currently working as an investigative reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Prior to moving to Georgia in 2022, Allie spent a decade reporting in Detroit, where she was an investigative news producer at the ABC affiliate and a reporter at the Detroit Free Press and the city’s alt-weekly. Allie has additionally written for publications such as The Atlantic, The New Republic, Vice News, Slate, FiveThirtyEight, Jacobin and the Daily Beast. In 2017 she was named a Kresge Literary Arts fellow for her longform nonfiction writing, in 2019 she was named Young Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists-Detroit, and in 2020 she was a “local news” Livingston Award finalist. Before all of this, Allie was a fifth-grade teacher in Detroit for three years. Follow her on Twitter at @allie_elisabeth. Send tips to allie.gross@ajc.com