Mike Hixenbaugh

Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior reporter for NBC News and author of “They Came for the Schools.” His reporting in recent years on battles over race, gender, and sexuality in public schools won a Peabody Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. As a newspaper reporter in Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, and Texas, his reporting exposed deadly failures in the U.S. military, abuses in child welfare, and hospital safety lapses, prompting reforms to save lives and keep families together.