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    Ashley Cleek is a reporter-producer at Reveal. She helped develop and launch Vice News’ flagship podcast, Vice News Reports. As a reporter, she has worked with This American Life, Vice, NPR, and Latino USA. Her work has won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, a Gracie Award, an International Documentary Association Award, and a Third Coast Award. She was a 2020 Livingston Award finalist. She has reported stories across the American South, Turkey, Russia, and India. Ashley is based in New York.


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