Samantha Douty joined Community Impact in 2021 as the Lewisville/ Flower Mound/ Highland Village editor. She now oversees the Flower Mound/Highland Village/ Argyle and Lewisville/Coppell editions. She graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2018 with a degree in journalism. But her passion for journalism started when she was 16 years old. Before joining Community Impact, she reported on education for the Victoria Advocate, a rural South Texas daily newspaper.