Marialexa Kavanaugh
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Marialexa Kavanaugh is a freelance journalist and graduate student at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute with a concentration in longform reporting. She has written pieces for Narratively, Bedford and Bowery, Feministing.com and LAist. Prior to NYU, she worked primarily in radio, gaining experience as an afternoon newscaster for KSFR in her hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Later, she spent a year working at Southern California Public Radio, editing stories for the station’s Arts and Entertainment department.
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