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Lateshia Beachum

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Lateshia Beachum is a reporting fellow for the Center for Public Integrity’s Economic Injustice and No Way Up projects. She has covered community news for Syracuse, New York’s The Post-Standard, billionaires for Forbes magazine and health science and politics for The Washington Post. Lateshia earned a master’s degree in magazine, newspaper and online journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree in English from Columbia College in her hometown of Columbia, South Carolina.

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