Marisa Charpentier | KUT

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Marisa Charpentier joined KUT as a digital producer in January 2020. After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin with degrees in journalism and Plan II Honors in 2018, she worked as a reporter for Community Impact Newspaper, covering the Central Texas communities of Cedar Park and Leander.

She is originally from St. Louis but grew up in Flower Mound, Texas.

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A Texan Helps People Visualize How Immense COVID-19 Death Toll Is

Marisa Charpentier | KUT

The number of Texans who have died from COVID-19 is more than 24,000 and growing. It's the second-highest number of deaths behind New York state. An Austin man has memorialized every Texas death.