Mackenzie Hawkins
Staff Reporter
mackhawk | mackenzie.hawkins@yale.edu
Mackenzie is the editor in chief and president of the Managing Board of 2022. She previously covered City Hall for the News, including the 2019 mayoral race and New Haven's early pandemic response. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is a junior in Trumbull College studying ethics, politics and economics.
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MACKENZIE HAWKINS
Elicker delivers first State of the City

Just over a month after taking the helm at City Hall, Mayor Justin Elicker delivered his first State of the City address to the Board […]

February 3, 2020

Lukas Flippo
MACKENZIE HAWKINS
New Haven hosts anti-hate press conference

Seventy-five years ago on Monday, Soviet troops opened the gates of the largest and deadliest extermination camp of the Nazi regime. On Sunday, communities from […]

January 27, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS
City prepares for census

With the first 2020 census count efforts coming up in March, city, state and federal officials have kick-started a concerted push to encourage New Haven’s […]

January 26, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS
DeLauro sponsors eviction prevention bill

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro came to City Hall last week to tout her new plan for tenant protection — a bill providing legal representation in […]

January 26, 2020

James Larson
MACKENZIE HAWKINS
Alders discuss guns, Tweed, Iran

The Board of Alders on Monday authorized a grant application for a gun violence prevention program, approved a federal grant partially reimbursing the city for […]

January 22, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS
Women’s March holds press conference

As thousands took to the streets across the country for the fourth annual Women’s March, the Connecticut chapter of the national organization decided instead to […]

January 20, 2020

JOSE DAVILA IV & MACKENZIE HAWKINS
New Haven talks taxes at MLK celebration

More than five decades after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hundreds of New Haveners packed into Varick Memorial AME Zion Church on […]

January 20, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS
New alders join Board

While the vast majority of alders in the 2018–2019 term ran for and won reelection to the local legislature in November, six chose to end […]

January 15, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS
Elicker appoints team

In the weeks leading up to his Jan. 1 inauguration, Mayor Justin Elicker made a slew of administrative appointments, keeping some of his predecessor’s staffers […]

January 14, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS & NICK TABIO
New Haven welcomes earthquake victims

The city of New Haven and its public schools are preparing to receive and support Puerto Ricans displaced by a series of devastating natural disasters, […]

January 14, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS
Elicker moves into City Hall

Elm City’s new mayor Justin Elicker’s first week was a busy one, featuring a packed inauguration ceremony, a no-frills celebration and the release of a […]

January 13, 2020