Emily is the American Press Institute's 2017 summer fellow. She's working on a project to help newsrooms connect with refugee populations.
Emily is a graduate student at the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications studying professional journalism. Originally from Gibbon, Nebraska, she graduated from Hastings College in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in visual media.
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