George Floyd Coverage

Libor Jany is the Minneapolis public safety reporter for the Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper in 2013, after stints in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California and Mississippi. He attended Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Ore.) and Mississippi State University, majoring in communications with a minor in sociology. In his free time, he likes traveling, having visited 25 countries on six continents, including Pakistan in the summer of 2017. He was born in Czechoslovakia, and has lived in Gabon, France and seven U.S. states.

Anna Boone is a digital designer and journalist at the Star Tribune. Since joining the company in 2017, she has worked on a variety of enterprise projects, including investigations into police handlings of sex assault cases, the events that led to the destruction of a police station, breaking down body camera footage from Daunte Wright's killing and creating a visual timeline of the week after George Floyd's death that changed the world. Previously she interned in Denver, doing print news design, and London, doing web design and writing. Boone attended Indiana University where she majored in journalism with a focus on graphic design and worked at her college newspaper all four years.

Maya Rao is the race and immigration reporter for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. On staff since 2012, she has written about City Hall, urban affairs and regional issues, as well as reported from the bureau in Washington, D.C. Rao took time away to report on the North Dakota oil rush – one of the largest in U.S. history – and published a narrative nonfiction book titled “Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks and the Making of an Oil Frontier” in 2018. She previously worked as a staff writer for the Philadelphia inquirer and Press of Atlantic City, and has been published in the Atlantic, Houston Chronicle, Longreads and The Millions.  

Mark Vancleave is a video journalist at the Star Tribune covering breaking news, features, and investigative projects. His work includes reporting on inequities in disabled Minnesotans' access to jobs, families' ability to intervene when elderly loved ones face abuse and neglect in care homes and civilian deaths at the hands of police–including the recent killing of George Floyd. 

Aaron Lavinsky is a staff photographer for the Star Tribune covering news, sports and everything in between. He joined the visuals staff in 2014 after working at newspapers in Washington and Arizona. Lavinsky is a licensed drone pilot and is passionate about the outdoors. Lavinsky’s work has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism, Pictures of the Year International and the Society of Professional Journalists. He lives in the Twin Cities with his fiancée, a fellow journalist, and his dog, Bandit, and cat, Pixel.

Andy Mannix covers federal courts and law enforcement for the Star Tribune. He joined the paper in January 2016 and previously covered Minneapolis City Hall and statewide criminal justice. Mannix teaches at the University of Minnesota journalism school, of which he's an alumnus. He holds a master's degree from University of California-Berkeley, where he focused on data-driven investigative journalism. His work for the Star Tribune includes reports about solitary confinement conditions in Minnesota prisons, the use of sedatives in police encounters and several high-profile officer-involved shootings. Prior to joining the Star Tribune, Mannix wrote about a variety of topics, such as crime, recreational marijuana and politics, for publications including The Seattle Times, MinnPost, City Pages and The Minnesota Daily. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and a dog named Laika.

Carlos Gonzalez is an award-winning staff photographer at the Star Tribune. He covers a variety of assignments including news, features, and sports.