A woman wearing a teal shirt and a black sweater against a gray background smiles at the camera.

Emily Younker

News Editor, Kansas News Service

Emily Younker is the news editor for the Kansas News Service. She previously spent 14 years at her hometown newspaper, The Joplin Globe in Joplin, Missouri, where she was part of the award-winning team that covered the deadly May 22, 2011, tornado and its aftermath.

She also is a former English language teaching assistant at a high school in Limoges, France. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and French from Missouri State University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Email her at eyounker@kcur.org.

History

New research spotlights a Kansas school that helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education

Emily Younker

MidAmerica Nazarene University will study the Madam C.J. Walker School, which was the subject of an important desegregation lawsuit in the 1940s.
Health

Breast cancer rates are rising in Kansas. Here’s what oncologists say you can do

Emily Younker

American Cancer Society research shows that despite significant drops in the mortality rate, breast cancer incidence rates have risen in Kansas and across the country in the past decade, with a particularly notable increase among women younger than 50.
Education

With on-campus encampment, KU students join nationwide rallies to support Palestine

Emily Younker

Students at the University of Kansas say their "liberation encampment" will last several days. They also have demanded that KU divest itself of any ties to Israel.