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Selin Thomas

Selin Thomas

Selin Thomas is Report for America's Story Coordinator. Originally from Philadelphia, Thomas received her degree in journalism from Boston University in 2014. Her first assignment, for the Pulitzer Center, was reporting on refugees along the Turkish-Syrian border.

She has worked as a freelance journalist in New York since 2016, when she completed her Master of Arts in politics and global affairs at Columbia University Journalism School; her thesis investigated the historical and economic causes of the persecution—ultimately genocide—of Burma’s Rohingya.

As a researcher, editor and writer, her work focuses on identity, historical narrative and politics.
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Feb 12, 2021
Culture and Identity

Celebrating the Black press

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Democracy

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Jan 20, 2021
Democracy

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Jan 07, 2021
Faith

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NEW YORK — Imam Saad Jalloh, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, one...

May 27, 2020
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Covering COVID-19: Advice from Report for America corps members

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Mar 18, 2020

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