Kelsey Davis Betz

Kelsey Davis Betz is from Mobile, Ala., and currently lives in Cleveland, where she worked as a Mississippi Delta-based reporter covering education and intersecting issues from 2017 to 2021. Kelsey has a dual degree in journalism and Spanish from Auburn University and worked as an editorial intern at Texas Monthly and a courts reporter at the Montgomery Advertiser. She is a 2018 Educating Children in Mississippi Fellow at the Hechinger Report and is a co-founder of the Mississippi Delta Public Newsroom.

Rare and extreme rainfall in Bolivar, Sunflower and Grenada counties has caused flooding which officials are still awaiting emergency aid for to clean up.

Kelsey Davis Betz

‘Water was seeping in through the walls’: Extreme rainfall pours into Bolivar County homes, leaving need for emergency aid

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What Mississippi college presidents have to say about COVID-19 on their campuses