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Jo Herrera

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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 live with their two cats and rabbit.

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