Teena James was fighting to be heard. Sitting in the passenger seat of a city-owned all-terrain vehicle, James pointed her cell phone camera toward the mobile home parks and trucking centers that line the streets of Echo Heights, a Fort Worth neighborhood southeast of U.S. 287. A caravan of city staff members and residents were […]
Author Archives: Haley Samsel
Haley Samsel is the environmental reporter for the Fort Worth Report. You can reach them at haley.samsel@fortworthreport.org. Her coverage is made possible by a grant from the Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Foundation. Haley has been based in Tarrant County since 2020, when they began covering the environment for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She grew up in Plano and graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., where she interned for news outlets like The Texas Tribune and NPR. Haley uses both she/her and they/them pronouns.
