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Melissa Banigan
Melissa Banigan is a journalist with work in the Washington Post, CNN, the BBC, Women’s Media Center and NPR, among other publications. She’s also the founder and senior content strategist of HiveMind Communications and the founder and CEO of Advice Project Media, a nonprofit organization that offers journalism training and workshops on gender and the environment for youth and women around the world.
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