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Emily Peck and Charles Maldonado
Emily Peck is a senior reporter who covers business, economics and gender inequality at HuffPost. She is a former Wall Street Journal editor and previously worked for The American Lawyer magazine. She can be reached at emily.peck@huffpost.com.
Charles Maldonado covers the city of New Orleans and other local government bodies for The Lens. He previously worked for Gambit, New Orleans’ alternative newsweekly, where he covered city hall, criminal justice and public health. Before moving to New Orleans, he covered state and local government for weekly papers in Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn. He can be reached at cmaldonado@thelensnola.org.
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