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Will Young

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Will Young is a Lorana Sullivan senior business reporting fellow. Before joining ProPublica, Will worked at Sojourners Magazine, where he investigated cash-strapped churches exploiting prison labor to save money on furniture and examined how Catholic shareholder activists are challenging for-profit prison companies. Will graduated from Liberty University with a journalism degree, where he also served as editor-in-chief of the Champion, Liberty's student-run weekly, and reported on university president Jerry Falwell Jr.'s cozy relationship with Donald Trump.

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