Maria Crane was a 2024 photography fellow at the Tribune. She has a dual degree in photojournalism and political science and was working toward a master’s in journalism at the University of North Texas during her Tribune fellowship. Maria worked at her college paper, the North Texas Daily, as a senior photographer and the visuals editor at Hatch Visuals, a student-run photo agency, as managing editor. She previously was an intern at the Denton Record-Chronicle.