Roberto Lopez of the Texas Civil Rights Project on the border wall

Roberto Lopez’s group, the Texas Civil Rights Project, joined others to send a letter to Homeland Security, the Pentagon and the Justice Department demanding they halt wall work in March.

By Carolyn ColeStaff Photographer

June 30, 2020 3 AM PT

Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. Her coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Cole has been named U.S. newspaper photographer of the year three times. Cole grew up in California and Virginia, before attending the University of Texas, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She went on to earn a master of art’s degree from Ohio University.