Charlottesville Tomorrow’s team is growing. We’re excited to welcome reporters Allie Pitchon and La Shawn Pagán and our new data lead, Leela Prasad, to the team.
Allie Pitchon comes to us from The Progress-Index in Petersburg, Virginia, where she received a 2025 Virginia Press Association Award for investigative reporting. She is Charlottesville Tomorrow’s first public institutions reporter. Pitchon is reporting on the community impact of the University of Virginia and other publicly-funded institutions in the area. These are some of the region’s largest employers, healthcare providers and education centers.
Pitchon was a reporting fellow at The New York Times and the Miami Herald, where she and her colleagues won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the 2021 building collapse in Surfside, Florida. She is currently a Report for America corps member, and part of the Open Campus cohort of reporters covering higher education across the country…