Amy Julia Harris is a reporter for Reveal, covering religion and its intersection with public life. Harris previously covered housing, exposing widespread mismanagement in a troubled public housing agency in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining Reveal, she worked as an education reporter at The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia and spent a year on a series of stories investigating a now-shuttered private college where she won a statewide investigative reporting award for her 2012 series. She has also written enterprise stories for The Seattle Times, Half Moon Bay Review, and Campaigns and Elections Politics Magazine. Harris is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.