General Assignment Reporter

Emily joined Community Impact in August 2021 and is a general assignment reporter for the northern Greater Houston area. Previously, Emily worked for a small-town newspaper in El Campo, Texas, for two years. Before that, she interned and freelanced for the Houston Chronicle and worked as a freelance photographer and writer in the Houston area. A controversial fact about Emily is that she prefers sugar cookies over chocolate chip cookies. She graduated with a print journalism degree from the University of Houston in 2018.

General Assignment Reporter

Wesley Gardner is a general assignment reporter covering Houston ISD, Humble ISD and Klein ISD. He joined Community Impact in May 2021 after graduating from St. Edwards University with a degree in mass communication in 2012. He previously covered education, local government, transportation, real estate development and nonprofits in the Lake Houston-Humble-Kingwood area. Prior to joining CI, Wesley served as the editor of the Lockhart Post Register and as a reporter for the Bastrop Advertiser and Fort Bend Herald.

Senior Editor

Hannah joined Community Impact as a reporter in May 2016 and is the editor of the Lake Houston-Humble-Kingwood and New Caney-Porter editions. She previously covered city government, education and business news as a reporter for The Woodlands edition prior to becoming an editor for the Spring-Klein edition in 2019. A lifelong Houstonian, Hannah attended Cy-Fair ISD schools and graduated from Sam Houston State University in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in multiplatform journalism.