Aallyah Wright is the rural issues reporter at Capital B, a Black-led local, national nonprofit news organization. Her coverage on the digital divide in rural Black communities was a 2024 Finalist for INN’s Breaking Barriers Award and her story on the rural Black mayor fighting to serve in Alabama won a 2024 Community Voice and Anthem Award. She is also the editorial director for StoryWorks Theater and a playwright whose credits include “Wade Through the Waters” for which she received the 2020 Mississippi Humanities Council Preserver of Mississippi Culture Award. A proud native of the Mississippi Delta, Aallyah previously served as the first Delta education reporter for Mississippi Today before joining Stateline to cover rural affairs.

She is a 2025 IRE Chauncey Bailey Journalist of Color Investigative Reporting Fellow, 2022 Maynard 200 Fellow, and 2018 Educating Children in Mississippi Fellow at the Hechinger Report. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and minor in communication and theater from Delta State University.

Wright briefed National Press Foundation fellows in September 2025: ‘Sinners’ Came to Clarksdale Thanks to Years of Community Journalism. She also briefed fellows in September 2025: Why Regional Food Business Centers Mattered.