Gabrielle Banks is an assistant metro editor at Houston Chronicle, supervising a team of reporters who cover inequity and communities of color. She previously reported on criminal justice and legal affairs for more than two decades, including staff work at the Houston Chronicle, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Los Angeles Times, and freelance work for The New York Times, The Mercury News, Newsday and The Miami Herald. She was on the Chronicle team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Harvey. She has been a frequent guest on "Houston Matters" and "The Texas Standard," broadcast on NPR stations. She taught journalism at USC Annenberg School. Before entering journalism, she worked as a teacher, social worker and organizer. She is a third-generation Californian living in relative harmony with a Pittsburgher and a Houstonian.