This week Illinois Times welcomes our summer intern, Maggie Dougherty, of Charlottesville, Virginia. A master’s degree student with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Maggie is particularly interested in investigative journalism and local news reporting. Earlier this year she was a reporting fellow with Capitol News Illinois in Springfield. Her undergraduate degree, from The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, is in global and international studies. In 2019 she studied abroad at the School for International Training in Amman, Jordan, where she volunteered teaching Syrian refugee children. Consequently, her Arabic, she says, is best with children’s vocabulary. She will be with IT from now through August. Welcome, Maggie. – Fletcher Farrar, editor
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