Natalie Wallington

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Housing reporter + data nerd for @mlk50.com in Memphis 🏠 Call out your landlord: natalie.wallington@mlk50.com 👀 Previously Kansas City Star, Popular Science, Audubon Magazine, Baltimore Times 📝 nataliew.901 on Signal 🗣️ nataliewallington.com 🏳️‍🌈

Seven people in matching tee shirts lie on the ground blocking the driveway leading into XAI's Colossus supercomputer facility near Memphis' Boxtown neighborhood.
A screenshot from the Poetry Foundation website of the short poem Obligations 2 by Layli Long Soldier. The word pairs are arranged in a lattice-like pattern that invites the reader to either read all of them in order or choose one phrase from each line: As we embrace / resist the future / the present / the past we work / we struggle / we begin / we fail to understand / to find / to unbraid / to accept / to question the grief / the grief / the grief / the grief we shift / we wield / we bury into light / as ash across our faces
A bright rainbow with a faint second rainbow above it shines over a parking lot on a background of gray clouds
A cropped Spotify Wrapped top genres page showing that my too genres for 2025 were 1. Bedroom Pop, 2. Minneapolis Sound and 3. Indie Rock
A horizontal bar graph of crimes in Memphis as of 10/13/25 shows that the top category by a good margin is shoplifting, with 7,110 instances recorded so far this year. The next highest category, Motor Vehicle Theft, has just over 5,000 instances, with all other types of crime below 5,000.
A colorful flowchart shows USDA money from a group called the CCC flowing to two major programs: TEFAP and the LFPA. TEFAP uses the money to buy bulk grocery staples, which then travel for free through the state department of agriculture, regional food bank, and down to local food programs. The LFPA, on the other hand, uses its money to reimburse regional food banks when they buy fresh food from local farmers. Other sources of food and money for local food programs include community partners like restaurants and grocery stores, and donations from the public.