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Melissa Ellin
Melissa Ellin is a journalism student at Boston University who will graduate in May. She is currently interning with Boston.com on the general assignment desk, and has previously worked with the Justice Media co-Lab at BU, which does data-driven investigations with local and national news outlets. You can find her other work in MetroWest Daily News, The Boston Globe and Boston.com.
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