https://www.evanlroy.com/overview daily 1.0 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1755024791890-ZEH47F7QIUZBRPOEE8W1/0303+Cowboy+Breakfast+EL+04.jpg Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688929928632-KO50IP5LCWZ8P7YH8512/APN+EL+Seq+16.JPG Overview Illiaña Treviño sits patiently as her mother, Jessica, places hair rollers in her hair before bed, at their home in Uvalde on Feb. 23, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1755024791890-ZEH47F7QIUZBRPOEE8W1/0303+Cowboy+Breakfast+EL+04.jpg Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689029338159-K2WUYK8U8AW8WOO88V6I/BETO+Abortion+Rally+EL+09.jpg Overview Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks at a rally for reproductive freedom at the Pan American Neighborhood Park in Austin on June 26, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688935783290-JXOFLTAMCPKQ08NV5TG5/MHP+Sequenced+EL+11.JPG Overview Sofia Ramirez, who is 43 and works as a gardener, bought her pastel green doublewide with pink accents in Congress Mobile Home Park for $60,000 in March 2020. She saved for 20 years to buy a home and paid it off in two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773687098499-JLGX0NR1Q8GG8OT7CHCQ/APN+EL+Seq+08.JPG Overview Geneva Story, a trainer with the San Antonio branch of Dog Training Elite, bangs plastic buckets together to make loud noises that might distract Adrianna Medina's therapy dog, Ocean, during training at the local HEB in Uvalde on Nov. 6, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773687877767-4HNB9RZDKE88HH1BCHDA/0508+Uvalde+Bill+Vote+EL+13.jpg Overview State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, calls for action on gun reform, while state representatives and senators listen during a press conference, at the state Capitol on May 8, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773687888340-KG0LYXFO0I7T395BYNE8/0110+House+Opener+EL+23.jpg Overview State Representatives and their families sit on the House floor on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675585410-8N92EKCLAVLP6XE40LIG/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+15.JPG Overview Sandra Torres and her partner Mack Segovia look at the bed they made for Eliahna Torres at their new home in Uvalde, on Feb. 17, 2023. In their old home, Eliahna had to sleep with Sandra, as they never had enough rooms. In their new house, they dedicated one room to pictures of Eliahna and her family, and plan to continue to add more to memorialize her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675908253-373EPMBVXRLH6SUL4YFV/1112+Palestine+Rally+11.jpg Overview People wave Palestinian flags during a protest against the Israel-Hamas war, outside the Texas Capitol on Nov. 12, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689028163001-4ISAL21031VE0BBCBVP6/Sergio+Porras+EL+03.JPG Overview Sergio Porras speaks outside a friend’s home in Uvalde, on June 8, 2022. Porras helped organize and led a historic six-week school walkout for the Chicano Movement in the 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773676059178-87QOMRW9B4AYAV3UUAQ9/0630+Trans+Parents+Kari+and+Miles+EL+06.JPG Overview A transgender 17-year-old stands for an anonymous portrait at a park in Georgetown on June 30, 2023. Starting Sept. 1, a new law will require minors to be weaned off hormone treatments after lawmakers banned gender-affirming care for kids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675365029-ZTGV2JBKBUZ8COH0LZWP/01+Politics+Portfolio+Reorder+06.JPG Overview People play cards on top of campaign signs for U.S Sen. Bernie Sanders while they wait for his rally to begin in Austin on Feb. 23, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675432224-CLTQPGB215N5W6847ZRA/1029+Bernie+Scoot+Inn+EL+21.jpg Overview U.S Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at the Historic Scoot Inn in east Austin on Oct. 29, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675908742-T87YT6ICGX5TO2WBXCSK/1112+Palestine+Rally+03.jpg Overview People carry a list of names of civilians killed during a protest against the Israel-Hamas war, outside the Texas Capitol on Nov. 12, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675428432-UEQECDT5S3S6EKA44USD/RvW+Protest+ATX+EL+21.JPG Overview Protesters marched from the federal courthouse to the state Capitol in opposition of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade in downtown Austin on June 24, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773687042098-SGROOE190P2O1NLHZ56F/Austin+Photo+Night+Sequenced+EL+11.JPG Overview Adrianna Medina, 10, does training with her service dog, Ocean, at Uvalde Memorial Park on Aug. 28, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675361248-ZRLKOC98AHOY8AJ1DMEU/0119+Rep+Venton+Jones+EL+07.jpg Overview State Rep. Venton Jones, HD-100, stands in the open-air rotunda, a few steps away from his office in the state Capitol's extension in Austin on Jan. 19, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773686353303-AIXF8AVU5EQ99OW9HQQ9/0124+Uvalde+Legislation+EL+02.jpg Overview Siblings of Amerie Jo Garza play quietly while the families of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting gather to attend a presser held by state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, where he introduced four new bills that will address qualified immunity for police officers, allow victims to sue the State of Texas, repeal the protection of the Lawful Commerce in Arms act, and create a permanent compensation fund for victims of school gun violence, at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675574000-8IC92C6CYJLYFYVKUAUN/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+14.JPG Overview Arnulfo Reyes, a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary School in Room 111, sits in his home in Uvalde on Nov. 7, 2022. Reyes was shot twice during the shooting on May 24, and lost 11 of his students during the attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688929940194-FSG67J6WMKSVE3L00APS/APN+EL+Seq+20.JPG Overview Austin Treviño plays with candies from the reward bowl as his brother, David James, gets a haircut from a family friend at the Plaza Barber Shop in Uvalde on March 23, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773687064051-9AIQZA505S1ULABB7N0Y/Austin+Photo+Night+Sequenced+EL+16.JPG Overview Faith Mata, right, places a portrait of her younger sister, Tess, onto an ofrenda for her before Dia de los Muertos celebrations in the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773687021912-JRGJAC67V1SY80OKZPEO/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+17.JPG Overview Family members and friends of Uziyah Garcia view a freshly completed mural in his memory in Uvalde on July 17, 2022. Each of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary shooting will receive a mural painted by artists from across Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675420405-BAY40BOLWUHF2GOJ7U8J/1108+Bracketvill+Uvalde+Polling+EL+10.JPG Overview Dolly Schultz, local GOP precinct chair, waves flags outside of the Willie DeLeon Civic Center Precinct 1 polling station in Uvalde on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773687871678-3NWSMEUHNR5X0DDVMS20/0406+House+Budget+Day+13.jpg Overview Democrats gathered to speak with state Rep. Gary Van Deaver, R-New Boston, to try to convince him to remove a particular amendment from an anti-DEI bill on the House floor of the state Capitol in Austin on April 6, 2023. Ultimately no compromise was reached, and the amendment was likely to remain in the bill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773687036641-Q7S16C0QMR4GVJZ4H6NM/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+66.JPG Overview Illiaña Treviño floats in the water, as her sister Ameliaña jumps from a suspension bridge at the San Felipe Natural Spring Park in Del Rio on March 25, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773687037888-UOT0XWAVZYBQ0XIMKPYG/0228+Gun+Safety+Advocacy+Day+EL+34.jpg Overview Jesse Rizo kneels to provide a support for Monica Gallegos' injured leg, while they wait outside the Homeland Security & Public Safety committee hearing, at the state Capitol in Austin on Feb. 28, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688929830541-OT1SVXG0D91F5FB0VB1R/0110+House+Opener+EL+23.jpg Overview State Representatives and their families sit on the House floor on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773675595386-U4WHFOIZ6C9LKRQIINNG/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+16.JPG Overview Relatives of Arnuflo Reyes, a teacher who was injured at Robb, release paper lanterns to celebrate Dia de los Muertos in the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688930519113-J1E9K4JYPEUU7TWA05W1/0327+Trans+Rights+Rally+EL+11.jpg Overview People chant "no place for hate" at a man who shouted accusations of violence against the LGBTQ community, alleging that the group supported the slaughter of children, is confronted by the crowd during the opening remarks of the "Fight for our Lives" rally in opposition of anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the outdoor rotunda of the state Capitol in Austin on March 27, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632536528988-5ATPQVNLARY718E3KUCH/CPOTY_Portrait+%281%29_Evan+L%27Roy.jpg Overview Nicole Aurit sits in her tent under a highway overpass in downtown Austin, Texas on Jan. 15, 2021. Aurit had been working as a manager at Supercuts before her job shut down due to COVID-19. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1633371474529-1A6VEFX8ID6M2IE3G77R/The+Texas+Eviction+Crisis+-+Three+Families+search+for+Hope+and+Housing+in+the+Lone+Star+State+%282%29.jpg Overview Wendy Short, 39, sits for a portrait inside her new mobile home in Del Leon, Texas on March 25, 2021. It has been almost a year since she and her family were evicted after she and her husband lost their jobs due to COVID-19, and were forced to rely on family and friends to find places to stay. This mobile home is the first time in over a year that her family has been able to afford their own housing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1633374252202-9VVKKP64DGQUV188OETA/IMG_2144.jpg Overview People watch fireworks over the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas on July 4, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1672859728524-FMXMD0XAQB4F2JBLK5DI/0829+Carolina+Big+Item+Move+EL+08.jpg Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632514968890-0H2JG2RC7DFDBKUT3CYZ/image-asset.jpeg Overview Protesters gather in a road intersection to speak with police chief Ed Drain after an organized march through Plano, Texas on June 2, 2020. Drain answered questions posed by the protestors concerning police brutality and the Plano Police Department’s reaction to the murder of George Floyd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632517504919-1ID4WTWBMHTSUM7XLAA7/IMG_2615.jpg Overview - Portrait test Viveka Teshome and her mother, Wubet Teshome, stand together in their backyard garden in Austin, Texas on March 3, 2021. A recent winter storm damaged their plants, but Wubet is confident that their garden will soon bounce back, as she says it has many times before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632536498938-TG5ORD2EVF2D26I3IKMO/The+Texas+Eviction+Crisis+-+Three+Families+search+for+Hope+and+Housing+in+the+Lone+Star+State+%282%29.jpg Overview https://www.evanlroy.com/thetexaswinterstorm daily 0.75 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1633365312152-74VWLRY1XXVA1O82YJIH/CPTOY_Spot%2BNews_Singles_%2B%25282%2529_Evan%2BL%2527Roy.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) People push on the back of a truck to attempt to get the vehicle unstuck from the snow in Austin, Texas on Feb. 15, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1633365312152-74VWLRY1XXVA1O82YJIH/CPTOY_Spot%2BNews_Singles_%2B%25282%2529_Evan%2BL%2527Roy.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) People push on the back of a truck to attempt to get the vehicle unstuck from the snow in Austin, Texas on Feb. 15, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589482678-DVCYSD66ISV47FR0TKUH/IMG_2128.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Icicles hang from the Littlefield fountain statue on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas on Feb. 14, 2021. A major winter storm swept across Texas resulting in rolling blackouts across the state - leaving thousands of people without working power, heat, or safe water for days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1633375012604-608HJLJJ3S3U26V3WF6N/IMG_2018.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Students walk through gradually increasing snowfall during the first few hours of winter storm Uri in Austin, Texas on Feb. 14, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589442505-WYJZMTQ56UTQMYOYQTUC/ATX+Snow+02-15-21+EL++%2839+of+39%29.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) From left: Caylee Stephens, Olivia Corless, and Cameryn Prostko work together to build a snowman in Austin, Texas on Feb. 15, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589442551-Z2W5JUYCM08WNDXVDMO2/ATX+Snow+02-15-21+EL++%2824+of+39%29.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) David Dobrinsky skids his bike through the snow in Austin, Texas on Feb. 15, 2021. Early into the storm, some embraced the rarely-seen quantity of snowfall while others struggled to continue their lives in hazardous conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1695157380789-FKF3QGAVFWD5I4SRYLRJ/IMG_1331.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) A frozen flower hangs low from the weight of the ice, outside a business on Lamar Street in Austin, on Feb. 17, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589459589-5DLIF2ULJYY3VJN7S3VJ/IMG_1010.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Customers peruse nearly empty shelves of produce inside a Wheatsville Co-op grocery store in Central Austin, Texas on Feb. 17, 2021. Deliveries for more food had been postponed until the coming Friday, marking nearly a week without new items. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589476618-274X1I6RGVVWLW5KFVEG/IMG_1108.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) By the second day, grocery stores were running low on produce and supplies. Some groceries, such as the Wheatsville South location in Austin, TX, had to throw out food that spoiled during power outages. Deliveries for new stock were also delayed due to icy road conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1633365250336-B3S4FH21U9RW51PM6HOF/ATX%2BWarming%2BCenter%2BEL-7.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Customers wait for groceries in a long line outside of a Target in Austin, Texas on Feb. 16, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589477348-J882JV15VBTST2PC80EH/IMG_1114.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) A single group of peaches is left among empty shelves in a Central Market in Austin, Texas on Feb. 16, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589499063-ZW00WZAM01BPWMB9STJX/IMG_1438.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Water sprays into the air from a ruptured pipe in a Rosewood Court resident's plumbing system in Austin, Texas on Feb. 19, 2021. By the time conditions were improving, some four days later, families who had fled their unheated homes in search of warmth during the storm now returned to deal with a new problem: burst pipes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589526823-5FUSDNUHMY0H4W7OGL4F/IMG_3276.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Jose G. holds a cylinder of ice from inside one of the pipes removed from a Rosewood Court resident's plumbing system in Austin, TX on Feb. 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589513381-MZIB8YOV9EA3YTN1GUTG/IMG_1780.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) From left: Ben Soto and Jose G. work to cut a section of pipe off to replace the busted piece in the plumbing system on Feb. 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589497308-5U8THVEI5GG7EZETW9HD/IMG_1546.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) A hole where ice from a recent winter storm burst through the pipe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1633404008130-Z8FTR9S6SAYI5SGG9CM8/IMG_1627.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) A plumbing worker prepares to enter a manhole to shut off the water supply to Rosewood Courts residents in Austin, Texas on Feb. 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589540657-M0CEWYQ5TRQ34J0J89V8/IMG_2274.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Brian Frick demonstrates a system of bucket rigging that the residents at Regency Apartments used to collect melting snow water as it flowed through the drain pipes in Austin, Texas on Feb. 24, 2021. Austin, San Antonio, and many other cities across the state announced a boil notice on Feb. 17 which stayed in place until Feb. 22. Residents turned to emergency distribution centers for supplies - or melted the left-over snow in their bathtubs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589534604-C4NBLDMP4SJRAZJPKQW6/IMG_2190.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Jack Considine collects water from an out-of-use pool behind his apartment in Austin, Texas on Feb. 24, 2021. He uses the unsanitary water to refill his toilet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1695158775543-WSXITJUGCOES3QKHVIKV/IMG_1979.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Volunteers distribute food, water, and baby supplies to vehicles at the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex in East Austin on Feb. 19, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589585770-ZTY84IGWBVH0XMOUU4TX/ATX+Snow+02-15-21+EL++%2821+of+39%29.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) The Texas state capitol with a blanket of snow on Feb. 15, 2021. The storm resulted in at least 246 deaths, some of which were caused by the freezing temperatures and lack of power. Other unofficial reports suggest that number to be much higher, with Buzzfeed suggesting that the true death total was “likely four or five times what the state has acknowledged so far”. Damages from the blackouts are estimated to be $195 billion, making the storm the costliest disaster in Texas history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001698830-3VHRXN91N8R65CQZUDSE/0201+Ice+Storm+EL+02.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Icicles hang from telephone poles and power lines after an ice storm in north Austin on Feb. 1, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001741732-9H77TTHZXQUB3FTPQLK7/0202+Ice+Storm+ATX+Day+2+EL+02.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) A large tree limb rests atop a car after an ice storm caused power outages across Austin on Feb. 2, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001740902-OJH6TMBC1W71O2ORV9NA/0202+Ice+Storm+ATX+Day+2+EL+05.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) A Spectrum crewman works to repair powerlines near The University of Texas campus after an ice storm caused power outages across Austin on Feb. 2, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001755891-GUINV5UJO77B6VV5K1ZL/0202+Ice+Storm+ATX+Day+2+EL+15.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Joe Rendon, a worker with Medxcel, cuts off a broken tree limb near the Ascension Seton Medical Center after an ice storm caused power outages across Austin on Feb. 2, 2023. Rendon and his crew had spent the day cleaning out other hospitals and said that there was enough damage from fallen trees for over two weeks of work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001780383-G0NBU4BDNQHYKTSIBRJG/0203+Kirk+Watson+AE+File+EL+11.JPG Winter Storm Uri (2021) Austin Mayor Kirk Watson speaks with the press to discuss the city's response to mass power outages after a ice storm, at the Combined Transportation, Emergency, and Communications Center in Austin on Feb. 3, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001852876-ZSPL7PM888IOYCMRA1FC/0204+Ice+Storm+Aftermath+EL+17.JPG Winter Storm Uri (2021) Robert Louvet in his living room at his home in south Austin on Feb. 4, 2023. Louvet, who has lived in the neighborhood with his wife for 35 years, has kept warm for the past four days while power is out by using gas systems in their home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001895754-JEJL69RM3A5DB4RU1BUN/0207+Mutual+Aid+Laundry+EL+12.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Linda Jackson Corey Roberson and Sasha Rose, an organizer with Austin Mutual Aid, all fold clothing at the Washatopia laundromat in Austin on Feb. 7, 2023. “We provided the blankets, but [the help] shouldn’t stop there. What we’re trying to do is fill in the gaps,” said Rose, explaining just giving people blankets without support for caring for their things just creates another problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001890744-6WDKM67IGCZC15QV1OIV/0207+Mutual+Aid+Laundry+EL+07.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Timers for the washing machines and dryers at the Washatopia laundromat in Austin on Feb. 7, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001890907-U72I0SX8GUY5X1U68ELI/0207+Mutual+Aid+Laundry+EL+05.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Linda Jackson, an organizer with Austin Mutual Aid, holds up a small multitool belonging to Corey Roberson after moving clothes from the wash to the dryer at the Washatopia laundromat in Austin on Feb. 7, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705001992968-2ABW69HJJ98DVCCDGT3Q/0202+Chainsaw+Clearing+EL+03.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Eric Calder and his son Thomas, 14, examine a borrowed chainsaw while out clearing tree limbs for their neighbors in northwest Austin on Feb. 2, 2023. A crucial nut had spun loose while Calder sawed a tree limb off, leaving the chainsaw inoperable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705002003552-XC0E3H1IN1I0YKD7VKKL/0202+Chainsaw+Clearing+EL+05.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Eric Calder and his son Thomas, 14, help move large tree limbs from a neighbor’s backyard after an ice storm, in northwest Austin on Feb. 2, 2023. Calder and his son were part of a neighborhood effort to clean up their neighbor's yards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705002005677-0A4I254ZK153VEEHKUL7/0202+Chainsaw+Clearing+EL+07.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Eric Calder and his son Thomas, 14, speak with neighbors who have come to a neighborhood community center to charge phones and other devices, in northwest Austin on Feb. 2, 2023. One man said he had visited earlier in the morning, and had seen about 15 other people using the facility to warm up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705002020117-4EB0CWPKPBANY74OT2SQ/0202+Chainsaw+Clearing+EL+13.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Aaron Nightingale clears away tree limbs from his backyard after an ice storm, in northwest Austin on Feb. 2, 2023. A large limb pierced through a portion of Nightgale's roof, but he was able to clear the rest with the help of Eric Calder and his son. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1705002018072-EDU5HSQFL3RQK3C0HP9L/0202+Chainsaw+Clearing+EL+09.jpg Winter Storm Uri (2021) Thomas Calder, 14, examines a branch that landed on a set of monkey bars at the playground behind the neighborhood community center, in northwest Austin on Feb. 2, 2023. "At least the little kids will be able to reach the rungs now," said Calder, who grew up going to the playground. https://www.evanlroy.com/politics daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825868727-V9N3AF0K23G28EL5H4QR/BETO+Abortion+Rally+EL+35.jpg Lone Star State Politics Sweat drips from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke as he speaks at a rally for reproductive freedom at the Pan American Neighborhood Park in Austin on June 26, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825868727-V9N3AF0K23G28EL5H4QR/BETO+Abortion+Rally+EL+35.jpg Lone Star State Politics Sweat drips from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke as he speaks at a rally for reproductive freedom at the Pan American Neighborhood Park in Austin on June 26, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685827343503-BJ3GPQAX3FAZ9R82WDHC/Mata+Family+Sequenced+09.JPG Lone Star State Politics Dolly Schultz, local GOP precinct chair, waves flags outside of the Willie DeLeon Civic Center Precinct 1 polling station in Uvalde on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. Uvalde, which was the site of the state’s deadliest mass shooting in which a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school earlier that year, ultimately voted for incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott over Beto O’Rourke, by a large margin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589823100-UNAQ94O6GM7B6P7ON2DS/IMG_0073.jpg Lone Star State Politics Lights indicate votes for various state Representatives on the House floor at the state capitol on May 28, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825864912-KUPR6VURBIJTRQOETCU6/01+Politics+Portfolio+Reorder+06.JPG Lone Star State Politics Supporters play cards while they wait for U.S Sen. Bernie Sanders to arrive at a voting rally in Austin on Feb. 23, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825503328-V7QQUJL6OX7PULNQOE1O/0110+House+Opener+EL+23.jpg Lone Star State Politics State Representatives and their families sit on the House floor on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825511182-IMZQ6UFJFE6ZUHNWVVIO/0111+House+Action+EL+21-2.jpg Lone Star State Politics The Republican women state Representatives joke with Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, as they gather for a photo at the front of the House floor during session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 11, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825548143-WKL1CQMY85B0PC9KENEO/0425+House+Floor+File+20.JPG Lone Star State Politics A state Representative prepares to vote on a bill during session on the House floor at the state Capitol in Austin on April 25, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825549673-JFVUTJ3FJPJWU8ANOAGX/0508+Uvalde+Bill+Vote+EL+13.jpg Lone Star State Politics State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, calls for action on gun reform, while state representatives and senators listen during a press conference, at the state Capitol on May 8, 2023. Gutierrez invited the families of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting to attend the Capitol every Tuesday during the session. However, their calls for common-sense gun laws were left unanswered by the end of the legislative session. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825524685-3LALZEQMXCYONKIHWM71/0111+House+Action+EL+25.jpg Lone Star State Politics Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, presides over the House as votes light up the board behind him, at the Capitol in Austin on Jan. 11, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825524919-DGKQ9IHHMQ83E34LIT8I/0111+House+Action+EL+23.JPG Lone Star State Politics Gov. Greg Abbott addresses the House floor on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825511052-LBFM5IFEJ6A498PTYP8B/0111+House+Action+EL+11.JPG Lone Star State Politics Sharon Carter, the House parliamentarian, holds up papers with the names of the two submitted candidates for Speaker of the House before voting commences on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1773777138430-NRQ82V8O3G9V17UTL1L6/01+Politics+Portfolio+Reorder+10.JPG Lone Star State Politics Ali Cross, of the Austin Cheer squad, waves a Trans flag while her squad mates hold her up on the steps of the state capitol at a rally against Anti-Trans legislation on April 28, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825532268-AMMKJVY9MSSJTDEO7XWD/0406+House+Budget+Day+04.jpg Lone Star State Politics State Rep. Diego Bernal, D-San Antonio, talks with Rep. Morgan Meyer, R-Dallas, during budget discussions on the House floor at the state Capitol on April 6, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632589922363-DQ8BELDV6YQQ4NC8TSPF/IMG_8964.jpg Lone Star State Politics State Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, walks down the House floor to present a bill during session at the state capitol on April 21, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825537714-TBW5316ZQD3Q18VFZORJ/0406+House+Budget+Day+13.jpg Lone Star State Politics Democrats gathered to speak with state Rep. Gary Van Deaver, R-New Boston, to try to convince him to remove a particular amendment from an anti-DEI bill on the House floor of the state Capitol in Austin on April 6, 2023. Ultimately no compromise was reached, and the amendment was likely to remain in the bill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825550169-J8S3EIAQHJSE0OV2NWJK/0508+Uvalde+Bill+Vote+EL+19.jpg Lone Star State Politics Protestors are forced to leave their signs outside the House gallery at the state Capitol in Austin on May 8, 2023. Supporters rallied to the capitol to call for a vote on HB 2744, which seeks to raise the age requirement to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689031334285-U87HSP84YCCZ813BVX86/0418+Uvalde+Testimony+3+EL+15.jpg Lone Star State Politics Stephen Willeford, who shot and injured the shooter in the Sutherland Springs mass shooting in 2017, waits to testify to members of the Community Safety Committee against HB2744, at the state Capitol in Austin on April 18, 2023. HB2744, which ultimately passed the committee but failed to progress further, sought to raise the age requirement necessary to purchase AR-style rifles from 18 to 21, such as the one used during the Uvalde school shooting earlier that year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825529041-UY1P147TBQ6TBGFAV1EY/0209+Capitol+File+EL+02.jpg Lone Star State Politics The state Capitol in Austin on Feb. 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825540202-GM7H1J7IFYZ6DWCWEHFA/0411+Bryan+Slanton+EL+03.jpg Lone Star State Politics State Rep. Bryan Slaton, R-Royse City, speaks with Rep. Angie Chen Button, R-Richardson, on the House floor during session at the state Capitol on April 11, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825551294-95L0MW6YU6820LXM31FA/0509+Slaton+Expelled+EL+02.JPG Lone Star State Politics The Sergeant at Arms of the Texas House removes the name card for state Rep. Brian Slaton, R-Royse City, after the House voted to expel him at the state Capitol in Austin on May 9, 2023. The unanimous vote followed an investigation that determined the Royse City Republican had engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with an aide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825530189-MFNBJPADP6WGG3HYO9DY/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+14.JPG Lone Star State Politics A young trumpet player looks up at the rotunda of the state Capitol as his band sets up to perform in Austin on March 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1633405301368-VXVFMX2V8CD430EPKF9E/IMG_0578.jpg Lone Star State Politics State Rep. Kyle Biedermann, R-Fredericksburg, speaks with one of his colleagues during session on the House floor at the state capitol in Austin, Texas on May 12, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825530932-76U37EI7FPGBMVCWDNKW/0406+House+Budget+Day+03.jpg Lone Star State Politics State Rep. Mihaela Plesa, D-Dallas, rushes to the front of the House floor during budget discussions at the state Capitol on April 6, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825539999-NE0BSXJZRRKW1FG3C5DX/0411+House+Vote+EL+06.JPG Lone Star State Politics People wait outside the House floor during session at the state Capitol in Austin on April 11, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689030886989-PQEJCNUIQRDY01GZUEEU/0327+Trans+Rights+Rally+EL+21.jpg Lone Star State Politics People hold signs labeled with different bills that have been filed by Texas lawmakers that target transgender and LGBTQ communities during the "Fight for our Lives" rally at the outdoor rotunda in the state Capitol on March 27, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825556297-04CGQKXKKZ0LH1GG4CF9/0512+SB+14+Debate+House+floor+EL+33.jpg Lone Star State Politics State Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo, plays Solitaire at his desk while House Democrats bring numerous amendments to SB 14, which seeks to ban puberty blockers and hormone therapies for transgender youth, for its second reading on the House floor at the state Capitol in Austin on May 12, 2023. The debate lasted five hours and all the amendments brought forth failed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825544738-FIQI995YZVR4YR82RE8E/0418+House+File+EL+11.jpg Lone Star State Politics House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, gavels to mark the end of a vote on a bill during session on the House floor at the state Capitol on April 18, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685840290452-0PRZKPKTG4KDSD9ZYT4S/0508+Uvalde+Bill+Vote+EL+27.jpg Lone Star State Politics State Rep. Tracy King, D-Batesville, speaks with reporters, after a Texas House committee voted in favor of his bill, House Bill 2744, which would raise the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21, in the state Capitol extension in Austin on May 8, 2023. It was a rare victory for gun reform, but the bill would fail days later after it was not scheduled on the calendar in time to make a key deadline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685825545196-6EHMX9JZXNWJWPZTG1KN/0418+Uvalde+Testimony+3+EL+16.jpg Lone Star State Politics The state Capitol in Austin is seen behind parking garage lights on the evening of April 18, 2023. The 2023 legislative session started with a record $32.7 billion surplus, but was mired in Republican infighting and multiple scandals, including a last-minute vote that led to the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, before Sine Die in May. https://www.evanlroy.com/climbing daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612291105-GA8BSM2R54QME5T3RDDM/IMG_1058-3.jpg Climbing and Comradery For nearly a decade now, climbing has been a critical component of my life. It has taken me to far-away places, and I have met so many unique and driven individuals through it. Like many sports, it is the physical challenge and the mental discipline that first enamored me, but the comradery and close-knit community has kept me coming back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612291105-GA8BSM2R54QME5T3RDDM/IMG_1058-3.jpg Climbing and Comradery For nearly a decade now, climbing has been a critical component of my life. It has taken me to far-away places, and I have met so many unique and driven individuals through it. Like many sports, it is the physical challenge and the mental discipline that first enamored me, but the comradery and close-knit community has kept me coming back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612302948-XDO5K9G6KNWMI6NQ8KSI/IMG_3301-3.jpg Climbing and Comradery Jack trying to clip the crux move on a 5.13 in the Wild Iris, Wyoming. He got oh-so-close… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612139864-PVBXKHAE4UGNJ9FTA9UW/HCR+11-18-21+EL-43.jpg Climbing and Comradery Yessie sneaks her way up The Crescent’s slab section in Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, Arkansas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612174117-WVJ4UWY9LM58E1NYRD9X/HCR+11-18-21+EL-51.jpg Climbing and Comradery Jackson receives fistbumps from the crew after sending Warbonnet for the first time, at Horseshoe Canyon, Arkansas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612227329-K4MXALB0SSQM2QW0L7AI/Hueco+Feb+2022+EL+%2882%29.jpg Climbing and Comradery Michaela twists into the first move of DDD in Hueco Tanks, El Paso. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612299033-9UOJNF4K4Y7BX5T9TNP2/IMG_2995.jpg Climbing and Comradery Jack tries to match up climbs to the guidebook at The Monastery in Colorado. In the background, the slab for Tabula Rasa (5.10C) rises over the valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1672857236666-IWVWNNFJBCGQ9ST44OJN/Backpacking+Yosemite+073.jpg Climbing and Comradery A lone man looks up at Half Dome at sunset in Yosemite, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1672857236371-GUPQEQXG4AQQGRHLE17D/Backpacking+Yosemite+060.jpg Climbing and Comradery Carson rests his eyes after a tiring trek up to the top of El Cap, with our destination - Half Dome - still in the distance, in Yosemite, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1672857547944-F830AGEO1MOEPHQUKJZZ/1117-21+HCR+Trip+EL+10.jpg Climbing and Comradery The crew feels out the moves to Off the Rails in Cowell, Arkansas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1672857240694-6MCACYJ5NXTZV4SF0000/Plano+Rope+JCCA+Comp+117.jpg Climbing and Comradery A girl reads her route before climbing in the JCCA Youth Rope competition in Plano, Texas. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/6230fb933fc6956b94961404/6230fbad45e7482e88b2694b/1754949262721/ Climbing and Comradery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689110999791-E9UF96D1IRRH9QB05578/Plano%2BRope%2BJCCA%2BComp%2B45.jpg Climbing and Comradery A girl is hugged by her teammates after failing to top her last rope route during a JCCA Youth competition in Plano, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1672857234875-3LWGWU0UYAWIBOZPN5T2/1230+Hueco+Selects+EL+001.JPG Climbing and Comradery Trent entertains the crew with kickflips while waiting at the break of dawn to get access to North Mountain at Hueco Tanks in El Paso, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612188689-6TWPEIJ3P22TQUEU4SFM/HCR+11-18-21+EL-68.jpg Climbing and Comradery Noah secures a surprise send of Grand Dragon in Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, Arkansas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612222823-FRYLTVTCOL8THJ96OCUI/Hueco+Feb+2022+EL+%2852%29.jpg Climbing and Comradery Logan eyes the final move to the top of Free Willy in Hueco, El Paso. The sunglasses weren’t just for style - the sun was directly above the finish hold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1649612240825-VG38WHNHWQY38EZZ0JWN/Hueco+Feb+2022+EL+%28105%29.jpg Climbing and Comradery Racing the sun to get off of North Mountain at Hueco Tanks before sunset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685827680919-73B4Q4RJK4OS18EVJIMU/0303+Male+Nationals+EL+10.jpg Climbing and Comradery Nathaniel Coleman finds the stacked knee-bar finish on Men’s #3 in the boulder finals of the 2023 U.S. National Climbing team tryouts in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685827683344-OPNPZ7U3LRBDNXMNS0EI/0303+Male+Nationals+EL+13.jpg Climbing and Comradery Sean Bailey smiles after controlling the start to Men’s #4 with a sneaky toe-hook beta, in the boulder finals of the U.S. National Climbing team tryouts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685827682911-OY5ZRC687SP9008E06OH/0303+Male+Nationals+EL+19.jpg Climbing and Comradery Zach Galla climbs the Men’s Finals sport route during the 2023 USA National Climbing team tryouts in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828890868-HBU486DV98ZHBK8LH6KX/0506+JCCA+Carrollton+Finals+EL+072.JPG Climbing and Comradery Members of the Risen Rock youth climbing team warm-up together before the second session of the JCCA Finals bouldering competition in Carrollton, in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828846623-LTM169TFN8E41PZ1XR54/0506+JCCA+Carrollton+Finals+EL+013.JPG Climbing and Comradery A young girl watches a young boy climb during the JCCA Youth Finals bouldering competition in Carrollton in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828864629-9DBWFCGVCU25OANU1CPZ/0506+JCCA+Carrollton+Finals+EL+028.JPG Climbing and Comradery A young girl eyes the next hold during the JCCA Youth Finals bouldering competition in Carrollton in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828874489-3B7BORF21SCZRBG0O13Q/0506+JCCA+Carrollton+Finals+EL+040.JPG Climbing and Comradery A young girl moves off the start hold of a climb during the JCCA Youth Finals bouldering competition in Carrollton in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685830008582-XBS6E78WM4IDMDXJI50P/Plano+Rope+JCCA+Comp+123.jpg Climbing and Comradery Spectators watch as a young girl chalks up, halfway up her route, during the JCCA Youth rope competition in Plano in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828668620-2IIC4ILOSTDGL0Z1Y6PJ/HCR+11-18-21+EL-52.jpg Climbing and Comradery Jack eyes the next hold on Grand Dragon in HCR, Arkansas in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828466740-N66CVLSTBOCYREL20LGI/1230+Hueco+Selects+EL+079.JPG Climbing and Comradery Noah checks his mirrors as the crew departs from North Mountain in Hueco Tanks, El Paso in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828375588-BOCLVUR6G6CFP0YOV99O/1117-21+HCR+Trip+EL+14.jpg Climbing and Comradery Logan grimaces as he moves into the crux section of Off the Rails in Cowell, Arkansas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828484464-WP527QJBCWHJFXQW6BIX/1230+Hueco+Selects+EL+106.JPG Climbing and Comradery Megan works the tricky heel-hook start to Animal Acts on West Mountain in Hueco Tanks, El Paso in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828474120-VYKMEH4IKGLZO08YF76I/Hueco+Feb+2022+EL+%2842%29.jpg Climbing and Comradery The crew compares battle scars. Shredded skin, blood blisters, and flappers are all just part of the experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828393360-TJSFJEXDC7IRQ7U3F3ZN/1117-21+HCR+Trip+EL+19.jpg Climbing and Comradery The secret to sending double digits: sugar, and lots of it https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685828443988-KJNUONQD7P0XLQ9T5KVO/1230+Hueco+Selects+EL+020.JPG Climbing and Comradery Departing North Mountain in Hueco Tanks, El Paso in 2023. https://www.evanlroy.com/congressmobilehomes daily 0.75 2023-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304415792-R9F0Y72DQP4JIHKGI8SK/Carolina+Velarde+MHP+0816+EL+13.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Carolina Velarde, 29, had lived in the cream-colored, two-bedroom mobile home on lot 15 her entire life. She remembers attending the elementary school down the road, and hunting for Easter eggs with her two sisters in the woods surrounding the mobile home park in South Austin, long before the trees were cleared to make way for new apartment complexes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304415792-R9F0Y72DQP4JIHKGI8SK/Carolina+Velarde+MHP+0816+EL+13.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Carolina Velarde, 29, had lived in the cream-colored, two-bedroom mobile home on lot 15 her entire life. She remembers attending the elementary school down the road, and hunting for Easter eggs with her two sisters in the woods surrounding the mobile home park in South Austin, long before the trees were cleared to make way for new apartment complexes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304371097-WQHI2LY71VAQDYZ4AMC5/0829+Carolina+Big+Item+Move+EL+08.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes On July 1, Velarde received a letter informing her that their lease would not be renewed and that they had two months to leave. The park had been purchased by Reza Paydar, a commercial real estate investor from California, who also owns nine luxury RV parks in California and Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664305054289-66I8ACR252I08EWG12G9/A_000653-2.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Velarde and her sisters decided to sell their parents’ home for $5,000, a third of what their immigrant parents paid for it, but the best offer they could get with the time they had. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304412488-VZQYQPWVPXYDWGYGJFVB/Carolina+Velarde+MHP+0816+EL+08.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes “This is the last place we were with our family,” Velarde said. “We will forever have an attachment here.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664305180995-6LWSDDGF1T1COIWTW4CE/Carolina+Moving+Boxes+EL+02.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Sisters Maribel and Carolina Velarde load the final set of small items and boxes into their father's van on Aug. 19, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664305181201-8G0MBU9V90S9RIGS2A4G/Carolina+Moving+Boxes+EL+05.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Carolina and her younger sister, Edith, were able to move into an apartment in South Austin. All three sisters, including Carolina’s older sister, Maribel, who lives in a dorm at a college, help to pay the 1,500/mo rent — 3x what they paid at the mobile home park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664489045809-2FH45IY1K1IZ4HDYZWAR/0823+BASTA+Meeting+EL+03.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Carolina attends a meeting with BASTA, a city-funded tenant advocacy group, as they help residents find financial aid for moving and plan for potential legal action against the new owners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304366443-HMHO7KUMXAAERPODQWHY/0823+BASTA+Meeting+EL+24.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes “I want it to be a lesson to future investors,” Velarde said. “They have this idea that as low-income people we don't fight or defend ourselves.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304422208-OGWD6L9H3UJGC76B4WCK/Carolina+Velarde+MHP+0816+EL+18.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes An empty lot where a mobile home once stood, with an apartment complex behind it at the Congress Mobile Home Park in south Austin, on Aug. 16, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304407483-5ZO5ODU54UI2TPWSRGFM/0915+Carolina+Apt+EL+02.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Carolina Velarde stands in her bedroom in her new apartment in south Austin on Sept. 15, 2022. The apartment is still almost entirely empty, but she and her sister are adjusting to the quiet of the apartment complex. They still feel emotionally tethered to the dying mobile home park where they grew up. “If they’d let us stay,” Velarde said, “we probably would have grown old there.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304396927-VHE8A970QW1V436AVJWU/0914+Sofia+Home+Cleanup+EL+16.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Sofia Ramirez, who is 43 and works as a gardener, bought her pastel green doublewide with pink accents in Congress Mobile Home Park for $60,000 in March 2020. She saved for 20 years to buy a home, and paid it off in two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304203162-FTB8DNDC11WVXXDCF4H1/0829+REEDIT+Carolina+Big+Item+Move+EL+09.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Her neighbors liked to visit her home garden, she said. Especially her friend Greg Hopkins, who lived in a camper just down the road. Hopkins liked to walk his dog Tashi among the towering oak trees in the mobile home park and often spent afternoons sitting in Ramirez’s garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304434528-7GYAJ8DMF8IUJVYDODY5/Greg+Hopkins+Vigil+S+Congress+EL+27.JPG Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes However, after the non-renewal notice came in early July, Hopkins died by suicide in his home on July 23, about a week before he was meant to move out. He was 61. His neighbors held a vigil one evening outside his home as warm sunlight filtered through the trees. They said he had been unable to find somewhere else to live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304431187-8JMC5N0KXF2GGIE57BXF/Greg+Hopkins+Vigil+S+Congress+EL+24.JPG Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes A woman sheds a tear as people share memories of their neighbor, Greg Hopkins, during a vigil in his memory at Congress Mobile Home Park in Austin on Aug. 3, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304431053-AY3933GO5DOH1491H55A/Greg+Hopkins+Vigil+S+Congress+EL+22.JPG Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Residents of Congress Mobile Home Park wrote messages to their neighbor, Greg Hopkins, as part of a vigil in his memory in Austin on Aug. 3, 2022. “We need to give a voice to the people who couldn’t leave in time, like Greg,” Ramirez said. “This wasn’t fair to him.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304362633-MEGUZIXEIU3M0TGSKQL8/0823+BASTA+Meeting+EL+17.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Ramirez’s other neighbor, Pablo Cuevas, works to deconstruct a porch and siding for his mobile home at the Congress Mobile Home Park in south Austin on Aug. 23, 2022. Cuevas said the home was too old to move and didn't know what he would do with it by the end of the month. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304375907-ESEGQC6JD4ZH4OPAIJGA/0829+Carolina+Big+Item+Move+EL+10.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes The abandoned front porch steps to Pablo Cuevas' home, a week later, on Aug. 29, 2022. That same day, the Congress Mobile Home Park Tenants Association filed a lawsuit alleging that the property’s new owner, Congress Corner LLC, and its manager, Paydar, had violated a Texas law that requires mobile home park landlords to give 180 days’ notice if they plan to change the property’s use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304422688-DJS6UENXVCTGVLI12YGS/Congress+MHP+File+EL+01.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes A judge granted an immediate restraining order, halting evictions until the case could be heard two weeks later, on Sept. 12, at which point she extended the order for another two weeks. It gave the few families that remained on the property a little more time. By then, it looked like a hurricane had swept through the park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304395020-YE4UAI0JA67BLFZ3FXV4/0914+Sofia+Home+Cleanup+EL+11.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Ramirez was able to move out in time, but movers charged her $10,000 to transport her home to a lot 15 minutes south. She borrowed money from friends and family to make a down payment. The move took more than four days, and her home suffered extensive damages in the process; walls cracked, shingles flew from the roof, and rainwater poured in, damaging the floors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304215905-E6EK2DGD81DEHOCFXG15/0914+REEDIT+Sofia+Home+Cleanup+EL+01.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Sofia Ramirez walks through the empty rooms in her home at her new location on Sept. 15, 2022. As she swept the debris away, she tried to calculate how much work was left to do and how far it would set back her plans for herself and her two kids. “I don’t know how I’ll do all of that,” she said in Spanish. “I have to start all over.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304214595-QLT1WUG0SY99CDNK7KWS/REEDIT+Paula+Pets+and+Tour+EL+18.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes For other families at Congress Mobile Home Park, leaving Austin was their only option. Near the back of the park, Paola Valdez Lopez, 27, had lived with her two children, nephew and husband in a lime-green, three-bedroom home with a big, fenced-in yard. She grew up in the home next door, where her grandparents lived until they died two years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304221390-54E3XEMP8F4OUWZGMKQH/REEDIT+Paula+Pets+and+Tour+EL+43.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes “It was a dream come true to get a house, especially so close to the city,” Valdez Lopez said. “When we got the nonrenewal it was like a punch in the stomach. You think you’re going to be here for a while, and then your whole world falls apart.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304209911-70G2F660A480ICM8RL69/REEDIT+Paula+Pets+and+Tour+EL+03.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes She searched for apartments in her price range that would accept her four dogs and two cats but realized it would be impossible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304439566-UB27IIFY0AN3NCRRTH2K/Paula+Pets+and+Tour+EL+05.JPG Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes In early August, she drove three of her dogs — Canelo, Queen and Penny — to the Austin Animal Center to give them up for adoption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304219805-YC6RK7W0GB6AS7LHWD50/REEDIT+Paula+Pets+and+Tour+EL+34.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes She posted an ad for their mobile home on Facebook Marketplace and hosted tours of the property for potential buyers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304219396-CEMUSZMHU315RFXOK626/REEDIT+Paula+Pets+and+Tour+EL+21.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Valdez Lopez and her husband give a tour of the mobile home on Aug. 4 to another family interested in buying it. Four days before they were supposed to vacate the property, she sold the home for $12,000, half of what they had paid for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304379465-G74Z37S0A019BJXFBSO7/0829+Paola+Home+Move+EL+02.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Valdez Lopez and Orozco Aguilar hand out drinks to Valdez Lopez’s nephew and the workers moving their home at Congress Mobile Home Park on Aug. 29. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304375515-GO52IRIR9H21F86PCT04/0829+Paola+Home+Move+EL+01.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Movers fix the tires under the family’s mobile home before they attempt to tow it out. Several tires were flat and needed to be replaced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304202131-FEENEWWW6TABXXQSA5QM/0829+Paola+Home+Move+EL+14.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes After they watched their home of four years roll away, Valdez Lopez and her husband, Edvin Orozco Aguilar, drove 20 minutes south to the suburb of Buda to live with Valdez Lopez’s father until they could find a place of their own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304205346-FNVE6CI0VAP4YZMQ7IVR/0829+REEDIT+Paola+Home+Move+EL+22.jpg Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes Valdez Lopez and Orozco Aguilar look at the debris left behind after their home was towed out of its lot at Congress Mobile Home Park. on Aug. 29, 2022. “I wish the city of Austin would have helped us more,” Valdez Lopez said. “I was born and raised here, my kids are born and raised here. To have someone from California who doesn't even know Austin kick us out, it breaks my heart.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1664304437971-Z7837MVGO5IT62QHEPRO/Greg+Hopkins+Vigil+S+Congress+EL+31.JPG Pushed Out: Congress Mobile Homes After pressure from tenants, Paydar’s company agreed to repay two months of rent and security deposits if residents moved out and cleaned their lots by the date listed on their nonrenewal notice. That amounted to less than $2,000 for most families - most of whom had already moved on. Two residents of Congress Mobile Home Park hold hands as they leave the vigil in honor of Greg Hopkins on Aug. 3, 2022. https://www.evanlroy.com/uvalde daily 0.75 2023-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709153962-CG5X2LUNFLK4VHCQO4AI/Uvalde+Text+03.jpg Remember Their Names https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709153962-CG5X2LUNFLK4VHCQO4AI/Uvalde+Text+03.jpg Remember Their Names https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689017893326-V38QG3LUT168H4Y4P5FI/Uvalde+Text+02.jpg Remember Their Names https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689017899065-JNNLH2TW6HYV2TJK5ISN/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+10.JPG Remember Their Names https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709174489-NVB8ODZZRBXOXIMSVPZD/Uvalde+Text+01.jpg Remember Their Names https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709579017-YZKM7CX604K7M453EVN4/Memorial+Park+Golden+HR+EL-8.jpg Remember Their Names Vanessa Palacios, an employee at Cut Loose Hair Emporium, paints messages of support and the names of victims on the windows of the shop in Uvalde, on May 27, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709580541-WOSZYOWGBNZOYOCK665C/Memorial+Park+Golden+HR+EL-13.jpg Remember Their Names Mourners attend a memorial for the recent school shooting at the city square in Uvalde, on May 27, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709550929-NJQDR8CEHDLB715Y8R6B/Abbott+Uvalde+Presser+EL+%2804%29.jpg Remember Their Names Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a presser at the Uvalde High School on May 27, 2022. Gov. Abbott addressed the response to the recent school shooting and emphasized the need to respond appropriately to mental health crises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709587208-3O6MHOY8K3JHHWPX6IJR/Uvalde+Mass+EL+-6.jpg Remember Their Names A woman embraces a priest after mass at the Sacred Heart Church in Uvalde, on May 29, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709555311-NXK0G3N55GWCNAMKLHTQ/Biden+Mass+EL+-14.jpg Remember Their Names FBI and police keep a perimeter outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde while President Joe Biden attends mass on May 29, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709553353-QP0VXJ2J8AKA1R1XTCJ1/Biden+Mass+EL+-4.jpg Remember Their Names “Do something!” President Joe Biden listens to a plea for action from members of a crowd as he exits noon mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, during his visit to Uvalde on Sunday, May 29. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709582044-CQ9T9YPTG0N9I9EIRT9O/Rebecca+Moreno+EL+03.JPG Remember Their Names Rebecca Moreno, a current substitute teacher and retired Spanish teacher, speaks about her experience as a student who took part in a historic six-week school walkout for the Chicano Movement, in her home where she was born in Uvalde, on June 8, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709589458-QQPCZ6SK434JCE5THY4T/Uvalde+Memorial+May+28+EL-9.jpg Remember Their Names A message written on a soccer ball reads "Rest easy buddy" at a memorial for victims of the school shooting in Uvalde on May 28, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018926848-AD3IVLNEG45NFZPLIM6E/1018+Robb+WaPo+Timeline+Images+EL+09.jpg Remember Their Names Robb Elementary in Uvalde on Oct. 18, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018936905-EBKOZTP4NH3YK4TW9G6A/Memorial+Murals+07-17+EL+29.JPG Remember Their Names LeeNora Obregon, best friend of Eva Mireles, watches as people work to finish a mural in her memory in Uvalde on July 17, 2022. Each of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary shooting will receive a mural painted by artists from across Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018938065-SF9EDBGA79822JV5L082/Robb+Elementary+Memorial+EL+-5.jpg Remember Their Names A woman checks her mail, leaning over caution tape blocking off the street from the nearby memorial for victims of the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 28, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018938976-VW1X4MSNLD5N0PWXNSBD/Robb+Elementary+Memorial+EL+-7.jpg Remember Their Names A DPS trooper takes a bouquet of flowers to place on the memorial for victims of the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 28, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709588049-I9TTIMYNZSTPP16KLR69/Uvalde+Mass+EL+-20.jpg Remember Their Names Zeke Rendon holds a letter he wrote to his family during Sunday school at Primera Iglesia Bautista Church in Uvalde on May 29, 2022. Ellie Garcia, one of the victims of the recent school shooting, had been attending the same Sunday school with Redon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709556356-4BQEZN9K2XBYALMRDQMW/Chief+Pete+Arredondo+EL+05.JPG Remember Their Names Uvalde school police Chief Pete Arredondo stands on a dirt road on the outskirts of town on June 8, 2022. One of the first to respond to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, he says: “The only thing that was important to me at this time was to save as many teachers and children as possible.” He was fired by the school board exactly three months after the attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709610491-6VDD6MP5JMNKI7O1KGRK/0217+Torres+Family+EL+06.JPG Remember Their Names Sandra Torres and her partner Mack Segovia look at the bed they made for Eliahna Torres at their new home in Uvalde, on Feb. 17, 2023. In their old home, Eliahna had to sleep with Sandra, as they never had enough rooms. In their new house, they dedicated one room to pictures of Eliahna and her family, and plan to continue to add more to memorialize her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709562212-9FFLB5FSZI017K1GI0V3/Maite+Mural+Painting+EL+15.JPG Remember Their Names Ana Rodriguez paints a small blue fish as part of the mural in memory of her daughter, Maite, with the help of her sons, Adrean and Caleb, in Uvalde on July 24, 2022. Maite was one of the 19 children killed during the Robb Elementary school shooting. She wanted to be a marine biologist when she grew up, and had already picked out which college she wanted to attend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709563544-EB92YCYKWNNFIKEYSCBO/Maite+Mural+Painting+EL+19.JPG Remember Their Names Ana Rodriguez paints a small blue fish as part of the mural in memory of her daughter, Maite, with the help of her sons in Uvalde on July 24, 2022. Rodriguez wears earrings with green Converse on them, the same shoe that her daughter was wearing on May 24th. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709597216-W7N6CI8WHENWUIU737R1/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+17.JPG Remember Their Names Family members and friends of Uziyah Garcia view a freshly completed mural in his memory in Uvalde on July 17, 2022. A local artist, Abel Ortiz-Acosta, organized the project that will see each of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary shooting receive a mural painted by artists from across Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709577424-VYKNBN9DNGWSVA7DE1Q6/Memorial+Murals+07-17+EL+26.JPG Remember Their Names San Antonio artist Cristina Sosa Noriega paints a mural in memory of Anerie Jo Garza in Uvalde on July 17, 2022. Each of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary shooting will receive a mural painted by artists from across Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709600444-CQM7KAS7QOFBVIWB3H7R/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+14.JPG Remember Their Names Arnulfo Reyes, a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary School in Room 111, sits in his home in Uvalde on Nov. 7, 2022. Reyes was shot twice during the shooting on May 24, and lost 11 of his students during the attack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709582205-6RD0XZT4LZYVGM06K12B/Robb+Investigative+Committee+07-17+EL+08.JPG Remember Their Names State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, speaks about the report conducted by the Texas House Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting during a press conference in the Civic Center in Uvalde on July 17, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709583595-Y9JJT0RF45AHQN233ZW8/Robb+Investigative+Committee+07-17+EL+26.JPG Remember Their Names Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin talks to members of the press about his promise to release body cam footage on the Robb Elementary Shooting in Uvalde, July 17, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709583887-DHHI9Z1VDRCUKFWLCJ5K/Robb+Investigative+Committee+07-17+EL+29.JPG Remember Their Names Two state troopers stand near the back of the room during a press conference held by the Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting in the Civic Center in Uvalde on July 17, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709585931-76PTQDKH9WPV8B8OCOPF/Unheard+Voices+Uvalde+EL+01.jpg Remember Their Names Family members and friends participate in a march in support of those killed and injured in the school shooting at Robb Elementary, in Uvalde on July 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709586794-IAGYBV8T6VJQ1UDV7BQY/Unheard+Voices+Uvalde+EL+08.jpg Remember Their Names Family members and friends participate in a march in support of those killed and injured in the school shooting at Robb Elementary, in Uvalde on July 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018924556-N03ZT5CGTJYP76XDNM2R/0827+Uvalde+March+For+Our+Lives+EL+20.jpg Remember Their Names Family members of the victims of the Robb Elementary Shooting sit on the steps of the state Capitol during a March For Our Lives protest on Aug. 27, 2022. Families of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary shooting spoke up, calling for Gov. Greg Abbott to enact a special session, and increase the age to own AR-style weapons to 21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689019464364-FFAHRKBZ0L97Y86CP83E/0827+Uvalde+March+For+Our+Lives+EL+12.jpg Remember Their Names Family members of Maite Rodriguez wear green Converse in her memory during a March For Our Lives protest at the state Capitol on Aug. 27, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018924326-XWOXNJD6XENGMY9UEFMJ/0827+Uvalde+March+For+Our+Lives+EL+15.jpg Remember Their Names Ana Rodriguez, mother of Maite Rodriguez, speaks during a March For Our Lives protest at the state Capitol on Aug. 27, 2022. Families of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary shooting spoke up, calling for Gov. Greg Abbott to enact a special session, and increase the age to own AR-style weapons to 21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709538848-FEK2U4SWAJMQNHZMNT9U/0906+First+Day+of+School+S1+EL+01.jpg Remember Their Names Before the sun has risen, lights flash from the bus as Aiko Coronado's children are picked up for school outside their house in Uvalde on Sept. 6, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709599054-988FU7Q1UPK762YUN7XD/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+18.JPG Remember Their Names Children and their families browse through roughly 600 donated backpacks before the upcoming first day of school after the Robb Elementary school shooting, at the O’Reilly Auto Parts parking lot in Uvalde on Aug. 13, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709556923-RXGT33FBMLRP76ADHB00/EA23+Uvalde+Seq+EL+07.jpg Remember Their Names A sign with emergency protocol instructions has the word "Lockdown" crossed out, with the words "Safety, safety, safety" written beneath it, at Sacred Heart Parish School in Uvalde, on Aug. 14, 2022. The school is preparing for classes to begin the following day, a full month ahead of public schools in the Uvalde district. The private school, which saw its enrollment more than double from the previous year, has implemented additional security features, such as carbon-fiber coating for the windows and taller fences, for the new school year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709542300-PKWHUXOECKKIZ66EXC4Z/1004+UCISD+Sit+In+EL+02.JPG Remember Their Names Brett Cross, the parental guardian of one of Uziyah Garcia, sits outside the back entrance of the Uvalde CISD administrative office building in the early morning of Oct. 4, 2022. Cross has been protesting outside of the building for over a week, calling for the suspension of all school officers who were present at Robb Elementary during the school shooting on May 24. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018939167-BIPAMPHUN1KRNTONB9QL/Sacred+Heart+Parish+School+EL+07.JPG Remember Their Names Principal Joseph Olan points out areas of improvement happening at Sacred Heart Parish School as they prepare for the first day of school in Uvalde on Aug. 9, 2022. Preparations include bulletproof film covering all windows, new fencing, and a more secure system for opening the main doors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018940585-LLE3135ZI4QIQJIOO0ZY/Sacred+Heart+Protection+Prep+0814+EL+01.jpg Remember Their Names Colorful posters cover up polycarbonate bulletproof resistant sheeting on the outside of windows at Sacred Heart Parish School in Uvalde, on Aug. 14, 2022. The school is preparing for classes to begin the following day, a full month ahead of public schools in the Uvalde district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018940991-85HF4KRIPOWCC0C0Y5UG/Sacred+Heart+Protection+Prep+0814+EL+02.jpg Remember Their Names Polycarbonate bulletproof resistant sheeting covers the outside of windows, inside a classroom at Sacred Heart Parish School in Uvalde, on Aug. 14, 2022. The school is preparing for classes to begin the following day, a full month ahead of public schools in the Uvalde district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709584944-UTGWMQDL4FCCY4A4E4Q1/Sacred+Heart+Protection+Prep+0814+EL+23.jpg Remember Their Names Polycarbonate bulletproof resistant sheeting covers the front doors of the cafeteria at Sacred Heart Parish School in Uvalde, on Aug. 14, 2022. The school is preparing for classes to begin the following day, a full month ahead of public schools in the Uvalde district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709552120-PZQH1KO1FYAYP6H1KNI1/Adam+Martinez+0812+EL+02.JPG Remember Their Names Adam Martinez and his son, Zayon, 8, at their home in Uvalde, on Aug. 12, 2022. Zayon was present at Robb at the recent school shooting, and will not be returning to in-person classes for the upcoming school year, instead choosing to use the online schooling option. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709558017-WRP2MQ60BBFKMO8DHCL7/EA23+Uvalde+Seq+EL+14.JPG Remember Their Names Emilio Gonzales, 5, jumps across the steps in his front yard, during the last week of summer in Uvalde on Aug. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709560331-HL4N7IRCUTZ4L4PJENCR/Kimberly+-+Maricela+River+EL-14.jpg Remember Their Names Crispin Reyna IV, 5, looks back at his parents on the shore as he retrieves an innertube while playing in the Nueces River outside of Uvalde, on May 28, 2022. His family had come to the river to try to relax and step away from the week's tragedy. Despite their efforts, they found it hard to disengage. “You hear about shootings all over the place but now that it has happened here - it's like holy shit. Holy shit,” Maricela Sanchez said. “How do we sleep when all we have in our heads is ‘Why? Why here? Why now?’” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018932582-WJOSRUWDDLBJGTBCTUZO/A_006479-2.jpg Remember Their Names Siblings Ameliaña and Austin Treviño entertain themselves with their phones in the lobby of a psychiatrist as they wait for their sister, Illiaña, and mother to finish up with an appointment in San Antonio on March 24, 2023. The Treviño family regularly makes the hour-long drive from Uvalde to San Antonio for these appointments, as Uvalde does not have the mental health resources necessary to treat the number of trauma cases after the shooting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709590042-AEQNGB7QST1TEFBU3P2H/Uvalde+Resiliency+Center+0811+EL+18.JPG Remember Their Names Martha Buford, a contractor for The Ecumenical Center, plays a brief song on a drum to demonstrate how children might use a room devoted to play therapy, in the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center on Aug. 11, 2022. According to Buford, if counselors are having a hard time understanding a child's emotions, they might turn to music to help - for example, a child might play the drums very aggressively, or wait until the counselor set a tune before joining in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709543259-WEDPPGY3GZ0HQG914BJA/1004+UCISD+Sit+In+EL+26.jpg Remember Their Names Hundreds of flowers, candles, and signs sit in the overgrown memorial yard outside of Robb Elementary on Oct. 4, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709558137-GEXKU7RSIKZNG3MKSR6I/EA23+Uvalde+Seq+EL+20.jpg Remember Their Names Adrianna Medina, 10, does training with her service dog, Ocean, at Uvalde Memorial Park on Aug. 28, 2022. Medina, who lost her cousin Maite Rodriguez in the Robb Elementary school shooting, has suffered from anxiety and depression after the attack. With Ocean, she feels better and more safe in public places and at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689019517012-TFJN5TEVP5KGXHSNPA9P/Uvalde+NYT+Portfolio+Edit+EL+07.JPG Remember Their Names Adrianna Medina, 10, continues her training with her therapy dog, Ocean, at the local HEB in Uvalde on Nov. 6, 2022. Medina and Ocean have been practicing in busier environments, to test Ocean's attention. Soon they will take their final test at a mall in San Antonio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709594826-LEZOXW8A7JDWD7C00OV7/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+07.JPG Remember Their Names Geneva Story, a trainer with the San Antonio branch of Dog Training Elite, bangs plastic buckets together to make loud noises that might distract Adrianna Medina's therapy dog, Ocean, during training at the local HEB in Uvalde on Nov. 6, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689019514851-EWUGOZQ8YQ1AJ65HMBG8/Uvalde+NYT+Portfolio+Edit+EL+15.JPG Remember Their Names Aiko Coronado helps her daughter Adrianna Medina, 10, put on a necklace as she gets ready for the first day of classes in Uvalde on Sept. 6, 2022. Medina is wearing a shirt with a picture of Adrianna with her cousin and friend Maite Rodriguez from the awards ceremony at Robb on May 24. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689019517035-C7BH24X6URM8LRP60C8V/Uvalde+NYT+Portfolio+Edit+EL+16.JPG Remember Their Names A pair of green converse with a heart on the toe, similar to the ones Maite Rodriguez wore, at the Coronado's home in Uvalde on Sept. 6, 2022. Adrianna Medina, Maite's cousin and friend, will wear a similar pear of lime green converse shoes to the first day of classes in memory of Maite. "I wanted to have a piece of her with me," Medina said of the shoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689019518462-59YUI9D259BBAHV0AEDV/Uvalde+NYT+Portfolio+Edit+EL+17.JPG Remember Their Names Aiko Coronado takes a photo of her children Adrianna, 10, Alejandro, 6, and Allyson, 5, as they wait for the bus to take them to their first day of school in Uvalde on Sept. 6, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709539171-AJ1KPKXPTAD7R12UTL5F/0906+First+Day+of+School+S1+EL+02.jpg Remember Their Names Children walk past Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers as they arrive to Flores Middle School for the first day of classes in Uvalde on Sept. 6, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709585253-VY2MMKVTU4K5FEW11E06/Softball+Memorial+Plaza+07-17+EL+13.JPG Remember Their Names A message from Javier Cazares written on the cross for his daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, at the Main Plaza in Uvalde, on July 17, 2022. Following the removal of the crosses at the plaza, parents confronted the city council about it, and have slowly begun to bring back personal memorials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709563924-2O4N3J4R8946ILQJBPMH/Mata+Family+Sequenced+02.JPG Remember Their Names Family members of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary shooting carry a memorial for their loved ones across the street from the state Capitol to the governor’s mansion during a Marcha de los Ninos rally in Austin, on Nov. 1, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709535185-RIEDRVAK8X1PH5ALDLN3/0524+Uvalde+1Yr+Plaza+EL+08.JPG Remember Their Names A handwritten message written above a photo of Tess Mata on her cross at the memorial plaza in Uvalde on May 24, 2023. The message reads “We’ll fix this. Promise.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709570413-OPWZTVHZZYFMDLWW1TSB/Mata+Family+Sequenced+05.JPG Remember Their Names Veronica Mata embraces her daughter Faith during Día de los Muertos at the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709567112-RT3X8O4WIYXMN49G0YI6/Mata+Family+Sequenced+03.JPG Remember Their Names Faith Mata, right, places a portrait of her younger sister, Tess, onto an offrenda for her before Dia de los Muertos celebrations in the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709546836-PX0PID926OLAVGY8EVVG/1102+Uvalde+Day+of+the+Dead+EL+28.JPG Remember Their Names The Rubio family visits with the Mata's, who show them Tess' offrenda at her gravesite in the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018928702-G2CRI40E56LOFY2FBB6S/1102+Uvalde+Day+of+the+Dead+EL+45.JPG Remember Their Names Jerry Mata fills coolers for drinks and ice in preparation for evening Dia de los Muertos celebrations in the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709567509-9NDHWLBNIZS204DQCKEC/Mata+Family+Sequenced+04.JPG Remember Their Names Jerry Mata leaves a vanilla Coca-Cola drink at the head of his daughter's grave in the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. Mata said that his daughter, Tess, loved the drink during her life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709571668-XRCLLSHNU45EJOP5MJTU/Mata+Family+Sequenced+06.JPG Remember Their Names A woman lays yellow flowers at the head of Tess Mata's grave for Dia de los Muertos in the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709554946-HW4UW65RGFL72MPBTL34/APN+EL+Seq+09.jpg Remember Their Names Relatives of Arnuflo Reyes, a teacher who was injured at Robb, release paper lanterns to celebrate Dia de los Muertos in the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709592532-4HTMJ3VYKRTSVTW1CYZH/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+02.JPG Remember Their Names Maite Rodriguez's green Converse shoes, which she wore to Robb Elementary on May 24, sit inside a glass case as part of the offrenda her family built for her for Dia de los Muertos in the Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Nov. 2, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018930455-1CPJ5K8JBE8L40I7NUV6/1105+Lexi+5K+Run+EL+07.JPG Remember Their Names Brett Cross jokes with Veronica and Jerry Mata as they pick up water at the halfway point in the Lexi Legacy 5K Run, on Nov. 5, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709575831-9JOU8ZEJ3DNLOFQTMAP3/Mata+Family+Sequenced+13.JPG Remember Their Names Residents watch Uvalde Leader-News reporters update results from local races on a whiteboard in Uvalde on Election Day Nov. 8, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709575604-3O4G73LXKNZYHR8W3O8I/Mata+Family+Sequenced+12.JPG Remember Their Names Jazmin Cazares, center, and other family and friends wait for Uvalde Leader-News reporters to update results from local races on a whiteboard in Uvalde on Election Day Nov. 8, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018932341-D7B4HPMEWHJO0AV68RM1/1108+Uvalde+Watch+Party+EL+15.jpg Remember Their Names A Uvalde Leader-News reporter highlights the final results for write-in candidates in the newspaper's office in Uvalde on Election Day Nov. 8, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709561828-BK6OTIIC2UWD58PBB0VS/EA23+Uvalde+Seq+EL+22.JPG Remember Their Names Families of the victims “cheers” each other after they each tried to encourage Faith Mata, who is calling from her dorm at Texas State in San Marcos, at the Lunkers Bar and Grill watch party in Uvalde on Election Day Nov. 8, 2022. Mata called her parents, crying, after seeing the news that Greg Abbott won a third term election. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709572010-NWBRWO2Q0SO1VXB0EWAK/Mata+Family+Sequenced+10.JPG Remember Their Names A mural in memory of Tess Marie Mata near the town plaza in Uvalde, on Sept. 6, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709579969-W41VX2N9LVYXDB6185UZ/Mata+Family+Sequenced+17.JPG Remember Their Names The Mata family cat, Oliver, sits atop Tess' bed at her home in Uvalde on Dec. 22, 2022. According to the family, Oliver will often sleep in Tess' room, and run to the door when there is a knock or doorbell, as if still expecting her to come home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709549473-Z6ZWSLS2ZCFB6K1B15AE/1222+Mata+Tess+Visit+EL+03.JPG Remember Their Names The Mata's decorate Tess' grave for Christmas at Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Dec. 22, 2022. As they worked, they talked to Tess and reminisced about past Christmas’, joking about how Tess would always be picky about to decorate the tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709550718-U8XKRD5VEMRBWTAVNNPE/1222+Mata+Tess+Visit+EL+14.JPG Remember Their Names The Mata's decorate Tess' grave for Christmas at Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery in Uvalde on Dec. 22, 2022. They placed two light up miniature Christmas trees on either side of the tree that is growing at Tess' headstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018937606-3K0K81ISRGSB19RDPIU2/Mata+Family+Sequenced+20.JPG Remember Their Names A portrait of Tess hangs in the home of the Mata family, while they visit with their cousin-in-law, Teresa Perez, and her daughters at their home in Uvalde on Dec. 22, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709549325-2SXJVBGSNPS046YHNR83/1221+Uvalde+Plaza+Xmas+EL+09.jpg Remember Their Names Christmas lights and holiday decorations light up the Memorial Plaza in Uvalde on Dec. 21, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018915090-8BZIELO46JURENZ1APU8/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+09.JPG Remember Their Names Christmas lights and holiday decorations light up the Memorial Plaza in Uvalde on Dec. 21, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018935501-PYC0E0KMCF3R8N6FN1TS/Mata+Family+Sequenced+16.JPG Remember Their Names A wreath with a sash in memory of Tess Mata, on the door to the Mata's home in Uvalde on Dec. 22, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018934762-QIOW3I2WPK7C1OZSVEOE/Mata+Family+Sequenced+01.JPG Remember Their Names Jerry and Veronica Mata stand with other families of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting at a presser held by state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, where he introduced new bills aimed at increasing state department transparency and gun reform, at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709605649-F453MAIFGGKTH41PMZ40/0124+Uvalde+Legislation+EL+02.jpg Remember Their Names Siblings of Amerie Jo Garza play quietly while the families of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting gather to attend a presser held by state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, where he introduced four new bills that will address qualified immunity for police officers, allow victims to sue the State of Texas, repeal the protection of the Lawful Commerce in Arms act, and create a permanent compensation fund for victims of school gun violence, at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709609107-QI7Z45YLAR7TVOUFRSF9/0228+Gun+Safety+Advocacy+Day+EL+04.jpg Remember Their Names Hundreds of supporters of firearm regulation and members of advocacy groups, such as Moms Demand Action, march to the state Capitol in Austin on Gun Safety Advocacy Day on Feb. 28, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709603590-1ZZFAIBP1BR769HP6WQP/01+Uvalde+Compiled+Sequenced+19.JPG Remember Their Names Caitlyn Gonzales, 10, breaks down into tears while telling her story of the events of May 24th, explaining her fear after a bullet pierced the wall nearest her and recounting the screams she heard from the classroom across the hall, while at a rally calling for greater gun control legislation at the state Capitol in Austin on Gun Safety Advocacy Day on Feb. 28, 2023. Gonzales was not tall enough to reach the microphone on the podium, so she stood atop a milk crate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709612602-7QFFC73STHLJKOBA45HW/0228+Gun+Safety+Advocacy+Day+EL+21.jpg Remember Their Names A milk crate that Robb Elementary school shooting survivor Caitlyn Gonzales, 10, used to stand on in order to reach the microphone on the podium while speaking at a rally calling for greater gun control legislation at the state Capitol in Austin on Gun Safety Advocacy Day on Feb. 28, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018916002-4UJX29W42NNJ8SE1P9UV/0228+Gun+Safety+Advocacy+Day+EL+32.jpg Remember Their Names Caitlyn Gonzales, 10, asks a question to state Rep. John Kuempel, R-Seguin, during a visit with family and friends of the victims of the Robb Elementary school shooting as they ask him to consider supporting gun reform legislation at his office at the state Capitol in Austin on Feb. 28, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018917771-SRU76N1FXZQ3JK5PJK4N/0418+Uvalde+Testimony+EL+01.JPG Remember Their Names Brett Cross, legal guardian and uncle of Uziyah Garcia, signs up to testify in the Community Safety Committee, at the state Capitol in Austin on April 18, 2023. The committee will hear numerous bills relating to gun reform, most notably HB2744 which seeks to raise the age required to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018917491-Q6HH1PDXRMWXEYI0H364/0418+Uvalde+Testimony+2+EL+05.jpg Remember Their Names Brett Cross holds his wife, Nicki, while state Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, speaks about what he saw as a part of the Texas House committee tasked with creating a report on the Robb Elementary school shooting, at the Community Safety Committee in the state Capitol in Austin on April 18, 2023. The committee will hear numerous bills relating to gun reform, most notably HB2744 which seeks to raise the age required to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709616691-3EFQYDPQAW1DE5OZWF60/0418+Uvalde+Testimony+EL+11.JPG Remember Their Names Rhonda Hart, whose daughter, Kimberly Vaughan, was fatally shot in the Santa Fe High School shooting in 2018, speaks in support of the Uvalde families and about the testimony they will give later in the day at the Community Safety Committee, at the state Capitol in Austin on April 18, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709614859-4EMYZJ1VQY3BFPIOB2UP/0418+Uvalde+Testimony+3+EL+01.jpg Remember Their Names Friends and families of the victims of the Uvalde shooting sit in a member’s lounge as they wait for hours for the Community Safety Committee to reconvene, at the state Capitol in Austin on April 18, 2023. Ultimately, they waited for 13 hours before they were able to testify in favor of HB2744, which seeks to raise the age required to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, as it was the last item heard by the committee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018919189-58JG324N517YN353TW0M/0428+HB2744+Presser+EL+03.jpg Remember Their Names Brett Cross, the legal guardian of Uziyah Garcia, holds a sign in support of HB 2744 which seeks to raise the age requirement to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, at a press conference on the west steps of the state Capitol in Austin on April 28, 2023. The Community Safety Committee, which heard the bill earlier in the month, adjourned on Thursday without voting on it, with state Rep. Ryan Guillen, R-Rio Grande City, stating that he did not believe the bill had the votes to pass the House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709615628-MKPQG4L7U1TIXT37WXX4/0418+Uvalde+Testimony+EL+07.JPG Remember Their Names Javier Cazares marks on his notes for his testimony as a poster of his daughter, Jackie, and other victims of the Robb Elementary school shooting stand against the wall beside him, while he and other family members wait for the Community Safety Committee to reconvene, at the state Capitol in Austin on April 18, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709614452-2HO83I99AK53E7XMVIT0/0418+Uvalde+Testimony+2+EL+07.jpg Remember Their Names Jasmine Cazares places a hand on her father, Javier, to console him, as he speaks through tears about his daughter Jacklyn who was one of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary school shooting, while he testifies in favor of HB2744 to the Community Safety Committee in the state Capitol in Austin on April 18, 2023. The bill sought to raise the age required to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709612836-MRL1X2C9UXQB21ZTEH60/0418+Uvalde+Testimony+2+EL+06.jpg Remember Their Names Jerry Mata moves the photo of his daughter, Tess, to face lawmakers while his wife, Veronica, testifies in favor of HB2744 which seeks to raise the age required to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, to the Community Safety Committee in the state Capitol in Austin on April 18, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709618240-6HITYIL7I9EKTXI983ZJ/0508+Uvalde+Bill+Vote+EL+10.jpg Remember Their Names People hold signs and chant at a rally in the rotunda of the state Capitol to call for a vote on HB 2744, which seeks to raise the age requirement to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, in Austin on May 8, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709617326-OQL147UXW7D18FJDXJ2O/0508+Uvalde+Bill+Vote+EL+06.jpg Remember Their Names Family members of the victims of the Uvalde shooting and hundreds of community members rally in the rotunda of the state Capitol to call for a vote on HB 2744, which seeks to raise the age requirement to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, in Austin on May 8, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018919414-D4ALASXDYAL0K5P1APF6/0508+Uvalde+Bill+Vote+EL+04.jpg Remember Their Names Family members of the victims of the Uvalde shooting cry and hug each other after the House Safety Committee voted in favor of HB 2744, to raise the age requirement to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, at the state Capitol in Austin on May 8, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709533840-ROAKD8EWY4SSVDPPBJLF/0508+Uvalde+Bill+Vote+EL+30.jpg Remember Their Names Brett and Nikki Cross, who lost their son Uziyah Garcia in the Uvalde shooting, embrace after a Texas House committee voted in favor of House Bill 2744, which would raise the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21, in the state Capitol extension in Austin on May 8, 2023. The vote was an unexpected win for gun reform in the Texas legislature, however, the bill would be killed by the Calander Committee only a week later, after the committee did not put it on the schedule for lawmakers to discuss on the House floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689025671870-K20TV5K5O6W5XQS1M1LO/0524+Uvalde+1Yr+Butterflies+%2B+Plaza+2+EL+11.jpg Remember Their Names Frank Ramirez and his daughter, Lourdes, carry orange flags as they participate in a 77-minute vigil, the amount of time it took for police to intervene in the Robb Elementary school shooting, on the side of the street outside the memorial plaza in Uvalde on May 24, 2023. The color Orange has become the defining color of the gun violence prevention movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709547050-K1UOOB5XDXC3LA0M4K3F/1105+Lexi+5K+Run+EL+15.JPG Remember Their Names From left: Berlinda Irene Arreola. Gloria Cazares, and Kimberly Rubio clap and cheer on the last group of runners as they finish the Lexi Legacy 5K Run, and arrive at Lexi's mural near the town square in Uvalde, on Nov. 5, 2022. Friends and family of Lexi Rubio, one of the 19 children killed in the Robb Elementary school shooting, turned out to participate in a three-mile run in her memory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018921785-QOJFFA93R010VWT1NTER/0524+Uvalde+1+Year+EL+05.JPG Remember Their Names Destiny Esquivel, a cousin of Maite Rodriguez, looks at the messages her memorial cross in the city plaza on the one-year mark of the Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde on May 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689025671947-BKP3ODEVDQYLFB923KUA/0524+Uvalde+1+Year+EL+01.JPG Remember Their Names Destiny Esquivel, a cousin of Maite Rodriguez, embraces another family member beside her memorial cross in the city plaza on the one-year mark of the Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde on May 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1689018922763-JV06NAWPMFGW2FKRQSHY/0524+Uvalde+1Yr+Butterflies+%2B+Plaza+2+EL+23.jpg Remember Their Names Reflected in a window with a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Robb Elementary school shooting, relatives of Maite Rodriguez cross the street in Uvalde on May 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709537664-74M8EJ0SSX7A9IZOIXW8/0524+Uvalde+1Yr+Vigil+EL+16.JPG Remember Their Names Hundreds of people gather at the Memorial Park amphitheater to attend a candlelight vigil in honor of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary school shooting on the One Year Mark of the attack at the Memorial Park amphitheater in Uvalde on May 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1686709535436-WJEF1E08GFFW3ZYXIO54/0518+Trevino+Week+3+EL+31.JPG Remember Their Names A sign, labeled "Uvalde", stands at the front of the entrance to the American Legion Park softball fields, as a rainbow appears in the sky above in Uvalde on May 18, 2023. https://www.evanlroy.com/off-the-floor daily 0.75 2023-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1690148346766-BC9NR77BYOHCHE7XZ4KT/0110+Salman+Bhojani+EL+Reorder+03-2.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege State Rep. Salman Bhojani, D-HD92, swears in on a copy of the Quran the on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1690148346766-BC9NR77BYOHCHE7XZ4KT/0110+Salman+Bhojani+EL+Reorder+03-2.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege State Rep. Salman Bhojani, D-HD92, swears in on a copy of the Quran the on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841004575-0CPDNMAIUKIDCQQAMUND/0110+Salman+Bhojani+EL+08.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege State Rep. Salman Bhojani, D-HD92, swears in on a copy of the Quran the on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688605364405-CN2NOIQ78XBN9OV3IJ19/image-asset.jpeg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685840966527-OPA5MEN2YFJIRLG8FA5E/0110+Salman+Bhojani+EL+01.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege State Rep. Salman Bhojani, D-HD92, speaks with Usama Malik, Resident Chaplin of Muslim Space, before participating in an interfaith ceremony the morning of the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841046048-5P5SBTNWC7GZV5HTT38V/0110+Salman+Bhojani+EL+26.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege State Rep. Salman Bhojani arrives at his office after meeting with supporters on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841022124-X9OEQW8I5EZJWRGYDUIJ/0110+Salman+Bhojani+EL+13.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege The Qur'an that Rep. Salman Bhojani, D-HD92, had sworn in on is displayed at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. The Qur'an is opened to Chapter 49, Verse 13, which speaks about God creating humans into different groups so that they might get to know one another and build cooperative relationships - despite their difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688605401589-ZGP01KAOTCF4G126GE24/image-asset.jpeg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841076423-2LT4O8KAYGFUJ5IQPZB5/0110+Salman+Bhojani+EL+35.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege State Rep. Salman Bhojani quickly tries to eat a meal of falafel before continuing his busy schedule on the first day of the 88th Legislative session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841055515-VNIOI0AUHLJ5X9TG5B29/0110+Salman+Bhojani+EL+33.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege State Rep. Salman Bhojani waits while his son, Aarish, adjusts a pin on his suit before another set of photos at his office at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685840990354-PS1Y5XB7O2NTEQR9YYHI/0110+Salman+Bhojani+EL+07.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege The name slot for state Rep. Salman Bhojani, D-HD92, on the voting board on the House floor on the opening day of the 88th Legislative Session at the state Capitol in Austin on Jan. 10, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688671890973-F4PH6PZZXACKEDEZWPXI/Lege+Text+3.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841180703-EQNI9UGW9HPE301IVCCQ/0209+Language+Access+EL+21.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Steven Wu and Sarah Syed of Woori Juntos listen to an aide of state Rep. Tom Oliverson, R-Cypress, in his office after pitching a proposal for legislation improving language access in health services at the state Capitol, on Feb. 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841167278-59F1F5NL8JL163UKX5O6/0209+Language+Access+EL+16.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege An aide of state Rep. Tom Oliverson, R-Cypress, examines an info sheet while Sarah Syed explains their proposal to create language access plans for health services, on Feb. 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688670635111-DCLAGR7N3WUQDW6VXBYO/0209+Language+Access+EL+13.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Nicole Ma, Organizing and Policy Associate for Woori Juntos, waits in the office of state Rep. Tom Oliverson, R-Cypress, to share her own personal experiences navigating language barriers in health services on Feb. 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841143282-95QXJZ7C9KV9ZLTBHAZZ/0209+Language+Access+EL+11.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Steven Wu hands an info sheet to an aide of state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, about their proposal for creating language access plans for health services, at the state Capitol on Feb. 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688673552126-ENTUJGQGGK6366JNBTQX/Lege+Text+4.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841272563-Q3PGHL64U7BXV4U8RVQ0/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+30.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Myoung Ryoo, of Woori Juntos, removes his instrument after a cultural drumming performance prior to a press conference by the Texas Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Collective outside the state Capitol in Austin on March 9, 2023. His shirt reads “Your vote = Your power”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688673986003-MQUC3PTUNLPDL9B61Y3U/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+18.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Hyunja Norman, executive director of Woori Juntos, leads her group through the state Capitol rotunda as they make their way to their next lawmaker meeting on Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Advocacy Day on March 9, 2023. The group hoped to speak with lawmakers and seek support for bills that would improve language access for Korean and Spanish speakers in regard to health and social services. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841294308-O9DO8C0YEFY45BFZZIAQ/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+34.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Women members of Woori Juntos dance and play drums during a cultural performance after a press conference by the Texas Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Collective, outside the state Capitol in Austin on March 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841241303-FBARCUL4XMPR0LU60HYQ/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+12.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Hyunja Norman, executive director of Woori Juntos, wears a button that reads "This Korean American votes" while advocating for bills to remove language barriers for Korean and Spanish speakers at the state Capitol in Austin on Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Advocacy Day on March 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841224848-UHAD0TNSSZDLCN50AMS6/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+09.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Hyunja Norman, executive director of Woori Juntos, pauses to go over a game plan with her group before their first lawmaker meeting at the state Capitol in Austin on Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Advocacy Day on March 9, 2023. Norman points to each person, reminding them of talking points and to share their personal experiences navigating language barriers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841267984-QF2B1Q13O52PA3KSIE64/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+29.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Members of Woori Juntos sing and play drums during a cultural performance after a press conference by the Texas Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Collective, outside the state Capitol in Austin on March 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841297950-3J8BEMZRKGZG0SSZJKNK/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+36.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege A member of Woori Juntos fans herself as she and others await an elevator to take them down to the state Capitol's extension level, after spending the day advocating for improved language access for Korean and Spanish speakers in regard to health and social services, at the state Capitol in Austin on March 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688673552091-GGMSKP3W30Z6KL6YD0NU/Lege+Text+5.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841319409-K15TF5F0T7K7ZATW4PZ9/0425+Woori+Juntos+Testimony+05.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Stephen Wu waits in the back of the room while the Human Services committee comes to order in the early morning at the state Capitol in Austin on April 25, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841317414-KKGTJG851KQNCHJHAIVI/0425+Woori+Juntos+Testimony+04.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Woori Juntos service coordinator Terry Yun reviews her notes before testifying in support of HB 5166 in the Human Services committee at the state Capitol in Austin on April 25, 2023. The bill seeks to improve language access to state health programs, and would require the state’s health commission to translate benefit application forms and other important documents into key languages beyond English and Spanish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841308275-DKYD0IIQ7TAA9M3608LV/0425+Woori+Juntos+Testimony+02.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Woori Juntos service coordinator Terry Yun reviews her notes before testifying in support of HB 5166 in the Human Services committee at the state Capitol in Austin on April 25, 2023. The bill seeks to improve language access to state health programs, and would require the state’s health commission to translate benefit application forms and other important documents into key languages beyond English and Spanish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841321155-QZ72W41PGZTGZTO9VFF0/0425+Woori+Juntos+Testimony+07.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege State Rep. James Frank, R-Wichita Falls, listens to testimony from Wafa Alatrakche and the translator who assisted her, during a Human Services committee hearing at the state Capitol in Austin on April 25, 2023. Alatrakche, who immigrated to the United States in 2004, spoke about the challenges she had navigating the technical writing found in health documents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688670329211-QSLUODVKU29PD0SFTT3P/0425+Woori+Juntos+Testimony+16.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege State Rep. Penny Morales Shaw, D-Houston, who sponsored HB 5166, speaks with Stephen Wu of Woori Juntos and Wafa Alatrakche, who gave testimony in support of the bill, after the bill was heard in a Human Services committee hearing at the state Capitol in Austin on April 25, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841329741-MXRF34X971WA082A5EW2/0425+Woori+Juntos+Testimony+17.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Members of Woori Juntos eat a small snack after attending the Human Services committee hearing, and review information on the lawmakers they will be meeting with later that day as they continue to lobby for better language access at the state Capitol in Austin on April 25, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841303798-5P0MIL62DH6961AZM4UJ/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+39.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Steven Wu and Nicole Ma wave goodbye to the Houston-bound bus of Woori Juntos members, as they leave the state Capitol after a long day of advocating for improved language access on March 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688673552989-FIID3DG3RP9SCAPI6632/Lege+Text+6.jpg Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688670301646-JA6WVRB8O62Q1OGQBYB1/0522+Woori+Juntos+Final+EL+05.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Nicole Ma, Steven Wu, and Quỳnh-Hương Nguyễn of Woori Juntos set up their laptops to catch up on emails and online meetings at the Capitol Grill while they wait for the Senate to convene after trying to meet with the office of Dade Phelan, the House Speaker, and various senators in the state Capitol in Austin on May 22, 2023. The Woori Juntos organizers have shifted focus for the remaining time in the Legislative session, to begin cultivating potential alliances for the next session and by trying to get an Interim Charge study for their main issue, relating to increasing language accessibility for Texans in state health programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688670302985-I0EVYQNEH1MM0DO6DK6C/0522+Woori+Juntos+Final+EL+13.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege A calendar with the month of May, the last of the session, hangs open behind Steven Wu of Woori Juntos as he speaks with an aide of Rep. Penny Morales Shaw, D-Houston, who sponsored their bill earlier in the session, at her office in the state Capitol in Austin, on May 22, 2023. The Woori Juntos group asked whether Shaw had considered sponsoring their bill for the next session, and if that wasn't the case, whether it would be alright to begin looking for another sponsor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841353227-GBIC2BKBGX45Z6U5YU1Z/0522+Woori+Juntos+Final+EL+08.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Nicole Ma, Steven Wu, and Quỳnh-Hương Nguyễn of Woori Juntos watch from the Senate gallery as they wait to hear the votes on HB 7 and HB 800, in the state Capitol in Austin on May 22, 2023. The Woori Juntos organizers have shifted focus for the remaining time in the Legislative session. and are hoping that helping to stop these bills would help them begin building alliances with other organizations for next session. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1685841224766-KXEPIBVK0RIA36WVADCI/0309+Woori+Juntos+AAPI+Day+05.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Group 1, led by Hyunja Norman, the executive director of Woori Juntos, huddle and cheer together before heading out to meet with lawmakers to seek support for bills that would improve language access for Korean and Spanish speakers in regard to health and social services, on Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Advocacy Day at the state Capitol in Austin on March 9, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688674059260-LRI5L4THGP59AWB6NX85/0522+Woori+Juntos+Final+EL+20.JPG Off the Floor: Navigating the 88th Lege Steven Wu, Nicole Ma and Quỳnh-Hương Nguyễn of Woori Juntos wave goodbye to the photographer, as they prepare to leave the rotunda of the state Capitol in Austin on May 22, 2023. https://www.evanlroy.com/uvalde-one-year daily 0.75 2023-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688113448-LYYK3OV086HS2HYW4YQE/Trevino+Family+EA+Sequenced+EL+10.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña Treviño sits patiently as her mother, Jessica, places hair rollers in her hair before bed, at their home in Uvalde on Feb. 23, 2023. “My biggest priority right now is to keep Nana safe at school and deal with the bullying,” Jessica says. “I usually put what the kids need first before anything else.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688113448-LYYK3OV086HS2HYW4YQE/Trevino+Family+EA+Sequenced+EL+10.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña Treviño sits patiently as her mother, Jessica, places hair rollers in her hair before bed, at their home in Uvalde on Feb. 23, 2023. “My biggest priority right now is to keep Nana safe at school and deal with the bullying,” Jessica says. “I usually put what the kids need first before anything else.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688760881741-HII4S532J69WAHC1M6AL/Trevino+Text+1.jpg Uvalde: One Year Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688690583730-U936URQC71TXL6RSP4FD/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+23.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later David Treviño walks around the crosses at Memorial Plaza, after pausing to look at his cousin Amerie Jo Garza's cross, in Uvalde on March 23, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688104776-9DUTZEVO2ODLD8N4I5RH/Trevino+Family+EA+Sequenced+EL+03.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña Treviño, 12, takes their cat, Princess, outside to feed her and give her water, after returning home early from school in Uvalde on March 22, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688028010-K9WGQTVTTBJ05SHNE8H1/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+03.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Jessica Treviño, 44, arrives at the Sacred Heart Catholic School to pick up her daughter, Illiaña, after the school called her to warn her that she was not feeling well and that she was hyperventilating, in Uvalde on March 22, 2023. “This is always the worst part,” Jessica says on the way to the school. “I don’t know what I’m walking into, like does she just not feel well, or is she having a panic attack?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688115638-D1MFP2N933PQFX34R90Y/EA23+Uvalde+Seq+EL+07.jpg Uvalde: One Year Later A sign with emergency protocol instructions has the word "Lockdown" crossed out, with the words "Safety, safety, safety" written beneath it, at Sacred Heart Parish School in Uvalde, on Aug. 14, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688111992-XWY8N5MGUSP6WQ5UYC40/Trevino+Family+EA+Sequenced+EL+07.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Jessica Treviño and her daughter Illiaña leave the Sacred Heart Catholic School. Treviño says that Illiaña will sometimes feel stomach sickness or physically tired as early symptoms of anxiety attacks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688766333865-PR8FX15MIU7RMJVFGXSP/image-asset.jpeg Uvalde: One Year Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688033998-OS2IK8VCDMF40RXUDL9W/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+06.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later When they get home, Jessica gives anxiety medication to Illiaña, and they talk about the panic attack at school. She’s noticed that on the 24th of any month, Illiaña and Austin get more anxious and Illiaña’s panic attacks are more frequent. “I don’t know if it’s the anniversary coming,” Jessica says. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688107863-SOX8JCGGF70QUVNHSS8B/Trevino+Family+EA+Sequenced+EL+06.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later A bag full of medication and prescription pills for Illiaña for treating anxiety and other mental health issues, on the kitchen table at her home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688109309-XJP5D2YP3QLKH04P1NAJ/Trevino+Family+EA+Sequenced+EL+05.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña practices batting for softball while her mother, Jessica, watches from the back porch of their home in Uvalde. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688106341-1U1L601HIFH1KCZ9P3R1/Trevino+Family+EA+Sequenced+EL+04.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Jessica folds a knitted blanket while cleaning in her home while her children play outside in Uvalde on Feb. 22, 2023. Treviño said the blanket was a gift from a stranger when her daughter Illiaña was in the hospital, after suffering from a heart attack shortly after the Robb Elementary school shooting in May 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688097581-Z2FK2H3FMUT7M3P066MX/0520+Trevino+Week+3+EL+06.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña holds a kitten close to her face at home in Uvalde on May 20, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688059253-BGRCES7JLOD9RBJDD8LL/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+38.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Austin Treviño, the youngest in the family, dribbles a basketball through the front driveway, while his father, David, prepares the grill to barbecue outside their home in Uvalde on March 24, 2023. The barbecue is a Friday tradition in the Treviño family and allows them some time to catch up with cousins and unwind after the week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688760881709-QDLWLC0U195RMXAOZZKG/Trevino+Text+2.jpg Uvalde: One Year Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688112712-TUI3R4RYTVP884VH18QX/Trevino+Family+EA+Sequenced+EL+09.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Jessica Treviño tries to comfort Illiaña during a panic attack in her bedroom, in Uvalde on March 24, 2023. The date was the 10-month mark of the Robb Elementary school shooting, where Illiaña lost a cousin and a good friend. As Jessica works to calm Illiaña down, she calls in her sister Ameliaña and her cousin-in-law to help. they go through breathing exercises and try to use grounding techniques to bring Illiaña back to the present moment. They worked with her for nearly 20 minutes before Illiaña started to calm down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688064241-UPV2A5SP3YAJHJ3E1024/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+43.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Jessica Treviño hugs Ida Velasquez, her cousin-in-law, after they both helped her daughter, Illiaña, calm down from a panic attack on the 10-month mark of the Robb Elementary school shooting in her home on March 24, 2023. “You have to stay strong,” said Treviño to Velasquez, “If she sees you crying, she will get upset again.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688066798-CTS06HMDB16L7WVK02ZL/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+45.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Purple light shines through a crack in Illiaña Treviño's bedroom door, after her family helped her calm down from an anxiety attack, in her home in Uvalde on March 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688116141-1V0XS8YOXZJW8VDSKG1M/Trevino+Family+EA+Sequenced+EL+11.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Jessica Treviño reflects on the events of the evening with a cigarette on the back porch of her home in Uvalde on March 24, 2023. "Sometimes I come out here and try to think about how I can do things differently, better, for tomorrow," Treviño said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688019531-J8TROC0NT11S27631VHN/0221-24+Trevino+Family+EL+31.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Pictures of the Treviño children hang on the wall next to the front door in their home on Feb. 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688039877-NL40AJK48MAS6VOA77B8/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+15.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Austin Treviño plays with candies from the reward bowl as his brother, David James, gets a haircut from a family friend at the Plaza Barber Shop in Uvalde on March 23, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688766058820-ZPRQANGFLXCKXJSFE5KK/Trevino+Text+7.jpg Uvalde: One Year Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688767786131-IW3PF7P3VQXA1DA8VUAG/0321+Trevino+Family+02.jpg Uvalde: One Year Later A note from Austin’s teachers labels a folder with make-up work. He and his sister Illiaña have frequently missed school since the shooting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688015915-NDKC5LISDGDN60IAFP21/0221-24+Trevino+Family+EL+01.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Jessica Treviño looks for anxiety medication for Illiaña, in a bag full of prescription pills as her children get ready for school in Uvalde on Feb. 21, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688024136-QBIAMGB1DBNZG4N01C7Z/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+02.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later David James, 11, and Austin Treviño, 9, play basketball while their father David, 41, speaks with a neighbor and his cousin Oscar, 46, in the street in front of their home in Uvalde on March 21, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688024736-VGWIA6EWDTPNM92O061S/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+01.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later David James plays a mobile shooting game on his phone at the kitchen table in his home in Uvalde on March 21, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688045517-YVLNA8E2189G8S6VKXYV/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+19.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Austin Treviño talks with other children while his father receives a shave at the Plaza Barber Shop in Uvalde on March 23, 2023. On the fridge is a magnet with information on the Uvalde County Mental Health Clinic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688050985-ROJI08FWXWA1W0Y3CSMU/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+26.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later David James watches his sister Ameliaña, 13, practice with a private softball coach from the backseat of the family van the afternoon before a game, in Uvalde on March 23, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688069253-L4AEC4QPIRU1E3QYFTLR/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+48.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Austin Treviño reacts in mock shock after seeing the makeup his sister Ameliaña had added to his face while the kids hung out around the kitchen table in the evening, on March 24, 2023. Just minutes ago, his mother and sister had helped Illiaña calm down from a major panic attack related to the 10-month mark of the Robb Elementary school shooting. Now the kids are back to joking around and things have returned to normal, at least for the time being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688074962-XP3JY9P4YRF8F620OZVY/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+51.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Jessica Treviño lets her son, Austin, do her makeup while they hang out around the kitchen table in their home in Uvalde on March 24, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688760882667-5X3HZJLX5Q9UO592BMEJ/Trevino+Text+3.jpg Uvalde: One Year Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688017657-U06M4T52PFBO7E7ULUAU/0221-24+Trevino+Family+EL+09.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña practices her batting form during softball practice in Uvalde on Feb. 21, 2023. Softball is a major part of her family’s life, and both Illiaña and her sister, Ameliaña, dedicate time to practice on their own at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688051709-FJ63VW5N9S6I3M3R4EMV/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+31.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña, 12, and her sister Ameliaña Treviño, 13, have their hair combed and braided at the Plaza Barber Shop in Uvalde on March 23, 2023. Both the girls get their braids done before every softball game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688093162-1RXZML3NK6G1E7EEYXHI/0518+Trevino+Week+3+EL+18.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña Treviño holds her hands up to provide cover from the light rain as her sister, Ameliaña, uses her phone as a mirror to apply black face paint before a softball game at the American Legion Park fields in Uvalde on May 18, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688094215-P6GKJWZ4T7FQTQRNJ86F/0518+Trevino+Week+3+EL+22.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later A spectator wearing a "Uvalde Strong" hoodie watches as the Texas Pride softball team plays in the second inning of their game at the American Legion Park fields in Uvalde on May 18, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688053891-SYA1X6HLV8LLYYYAIMR6/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+35.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña Treviño runs to first base during the third inning of their team's second softball game of the season, in Uvalde on March 23, 2023. Her team, the Texas Pride, lost the game, but Illiaña and her sister Ameliaña were two of the only three team members to hit the ball during the game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688057705-A43OFGQL61J83TUCH9NG/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+36.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later David Treviño cheers from the stands after Illiaña hit a single and made it to first base during the third inning of their team's second softball game of the season, in Uvalde on March 23, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688096106-U9KZD28W5MXU17HT0VIH/0518+Trevino+Week+3+EL+32.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña Treviño sprints for home during a softball game at the American Legion Park fields in Uvalde on May 18, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688773191251-HBNPTS74CQ78QYTD2YJ3/Trevino+Text+9.jpg Uvalde: One Year Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688096728-8RP8OJ5W38KSFV2BF3Z0/0520+Trevino+Week+3+EL+04.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later David James picks out a shirt from a pile of laundry as he starts to pack for a family trip out to Del Rio, at his home in Uvalde on May 20, 2023. The family is leaving Uvalde to avoid the activity surrounding the one-year mark of the Robb Elementary school shooting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688098238-SQFR5JOAFRUAWD95WC5J/0523+Trevino+Relocate+to+Del+Rio+EL+07.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later David James and Ameliaña toss a suitcase and other belongings into the back of the family truck as the family prepares to leave their home to avoid the expected surge of activity surrounding the one-year mark of the Robb Elementary school shooting, on May 23, 2023. The family will spend the next three days in Del Rio at an Airbnb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688100481-EYM544X6MGW0ERXIVVHV/0523+Trevino+Relocate+to+Del+Rio+EL+15.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Ameliaña Treviño lets an inchworm wiggle across her hand outside an Airbnb in Del Rio, where her family hopes to avoid the expected surge of activity surrounding the one-year mark of the Robb Elementary school shooting, on May 23, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688099764-R2PKTKU26Z915UZHZ3L4/0523+Trevino+Relocate+to+Del+Rio+EL+13.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Jessica Treviño looks to her daughter, Illiaña, as she stands in the front door of their Airbnb in Del Rio, where her family hopes to avoid the expected surge of activity surrounding the one-year mark of the Robb Elementary school shooting, on May 23, 2023. “I think the kids need a break from everything going on here,” Jessica had said before they left. “It’s just not good for them [to stay], it’s not good for their mental health. “Maybe next year will be different.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688773475701-31XZAZBKBUKF4SFQ795L/Trevino+Text+10.jpg Uvalde: One Year Later https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688082867-K7VQ5R6RNC4QYWMU8PIM/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+62.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Ameliaña Treviño pushes her brother, David James, off of a suspension bridge at Del Rio’s Blue Hole Park, a popular swimming hole, on March 25, 2023. On the weekends, the family tries to do things together away from their house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688767665345-IIZL1T7NKP5WJ2GUVJS4/0325+Trevino+Family+058.jpg Uvalde: One Year Later The Treviño siblings race to get back to shore after jumping into the water at Del Rio’s Blue Hole Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688688084484-2KM7VEZKNA3JM0ZYLG6U/0321-25+Trevino+Family+Week+2+64.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later The Treviño siblings race to get back to shore after jumping into the water at Del Rio’s Blue Hole Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1688689185504-D6J80A77SVV36W7A1GIE/EA23+Uvalde+Seq+EL+11.JPG Uvalde: One Year Later Illiaña Treviño takes a break from jumping from the suspension bridge and floats by herself in the water. “At least they get to be kids here and be worry-free,” Jessica says as she watches from the shore. “I don’t want them remembered as Robb kids — I want them remembered as good kids.” https://www.evanlroy.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/a4f71482-4fd7-40d0-ac74-a29dc9915b85/Roll_1_kodaksingleuse010.jpg About https://www.evanlroy.com/work-examples daily 0.75 2024-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/22ee7f54-c0ba-4f20-8cb3-6a6b2e20b596/Screenshot+2024-10-17+141347.png Work Examples An example of design work used to create the onboarding handbook for The Texas Tribune's photo department. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632538042519-EIK62GLW0J97LRZM4CLU/TTP_logo_05.png Work Examples Logo design by Evan L’Roy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614e295d422b40461f12a5da/1632538255220-2NR4H2RDBQ4FXW6EVEDD/IMG_8017.jpg Work Examples - Make it stand out Evan L’Roy/The Texas Tribune https://www.evanlroy.com/video daily 0.75 2024-12-17