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Senior Editor
Andrea Otáñez of Seattle, Washington, has worked as a reporter, copy editor, team editor and columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune and The Seattle Times. She is currently a teaching professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she teaches journalism classes and has developed courses in communication studies; race, gender, power and media representations of Latinx people; and critiques of journalistic objectivity.
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