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Jo Herrera

Jo Herrera

Jo Herrera is training coordinator, responsible for training logistics within Report for America, as well as managing the online community of corps members and host newsrooms. They are a multimedia journalist and editor with a passion for audience engagement.

Jo has worked in a range of storytelling roles, most recently as Census Information Officer for the State of Minnesota. Before that, they worked on audience engagement projects at Public Radio International/PRX and as the digital editor for eight local newspapers in the Twin Cities metro.

Jo is an alum of the 2017 Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media and of the Sigma Sigma Sigma National Sorority. They graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in convergence journalism and certificates in multicultural studies and women's and gender studies.

Jo is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota where they live with their two cats and rabbit.

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