Marcela Rodrigues is a reporting fellow at The Chronicle. She is also a stringer for The New York Times. Previously she was a Stabile Fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned a master’s degree in journalism. Rodrigues’s work has appeared in Chalkbeat, The City, Prism, and Ms. Magazine, among other outlets. She speaks Portuguese and Spanish.
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