


She worked for NBC News and produced Millennial/Gen-Z targeted videos for Brut. Laura moved to New York in 2017, where she earned her Master’s from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, focusing on health and science reporting, along with modern storytelling techniques like drone journalism and virtual/augmented reality. Hailing from Sweetwater, Laura is a graduate from Texas Tech University where she ran the MCTV Weekday Update, hosted segments for 88.1 KTXT-FM and was a photojournalist for FOX34 News in Lubbock. She can be reached by email at or by Twitter: Duclos is a multimedia producer at the Houston Chronicle. Lee is an alumna of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the University of Missouri. She was born in Taiwan and spent most of her teenage and adult years in Minnesota. Lee previously worked at the Herald Times Reporter in Manitowoc, Wis. She can be reached by email at or by Twitter: Lee joined the Houston Chronicle as a staff photographer in 2016. When not at work, she’s probably riding around in her Jeep looking at all the tall buildings. A textbook water sign, Julie is an advocate for people feeling their feelings and wants to help people tell their stories. These experiences have pushed her toward exploring environmental journalism and climate change. In 2015, she covered the Memorial Day floods in Wimberley, Texas, and in 2017, she was a lead reporter covering Hurricane Harvey as it affected the Coastal Bend region. Most recently, she worked at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in areas spanning city and county government, new business, affordable housing, breaking news and health care.


In Beaumont and Port Arthur, she wrote feature stories and breaking news before moving to the Victoria Advocate as an assistant sports editor writing about high school sports and outdoors. Originally from Port Neches, Texas, Julie has worked as a community journalist in South Texas cities since 2010. Julie Garcia is a features reporter at the Houston Chronicle focusing on health, fitness and outdoors. Robbins usually skates at skate parks and roller rinks, but he loves the energy of Houston’s streets and the camaraderie of the group. At one end of the lot, he skated fast before kneeling down, pulling off one skate and sitting on it as he rode between his friend, Dana McMullen’s, legs. Mark Robbins, 33, was eager to show off a signature move on his first night skating with the Space City Rollers. A foggy, moon-hidden night created an illusion of a snow globe with no snow.
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The skaters ended their night at an abandoned parking lot at Walker and McKinney Streets for a couple hours of free skate. I have a lot of fear, but they really pushed me past it.” I skated the ramp at the skate park, and I’ve gone down hills. “Now, I’m doing stuff I never would have done. I was screaming all the time,” Staats said. The 44-year-old was a mess when she first showed up, she said. She bought a pair so she could spend more time with her sons who ride long skateboards, also called longboards.
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Nina Staats, a mom and software engineer, helped them up as she recalled her “newbie” fear when she first laced up her inline skates. Outside Frank’s Pizza on Travis Street, a newly-minted skate couple flopped not-so-gracefully on the sidewalk after tangling up in each other’s roller skates, slices of pizza and a hula hoop, causing a contagious roar of laughter.
