Mary Hall

Mary Hall is an award-winning reporter, producer and editor, who tells solution- and human-centered stories focusing on healthcare, affordability, community development, and sustainability.

Mary is currently the senior producer for Change Agents, an audio series bringing together community “change agents” with emerging journalists, predominantly of color, to document innovative solutions to society’s most pressing issues. She has collaborated on projects with NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Illinois Answers Project, The Trace, YES! Magazine, the Solutions Journalism Network, and more. She helped form NewsNation’s inaugural solutions journalism team; co-facilitated a staff-led overhaul of DEI practices within WBEZ; and produced a documentary accepted into the American Documentary Film Festival. She is also on the board of the Chicago Headline Club, the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Mary was born in St. Louis; grew up in Quito, Ecuador; and now lives in a 100-year-old bungalow on Chicago’s Southwest Side.

You can follow her work at mhalljournalist.com.