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Amelia Benavides-Colón

Former Reporter & AJI Fellow

Amelia covered politics and breaking news for NOTUS.

Amelia received her bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University, where she majored in journalism. She was editor in chief of The South End, Wayne State’s student newspaper. She has interned for The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Crain’s Detroit Business and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and she has contributed to the Detroit-based publications Outlier Media, El Central, Eater Detroit and Planet Detroit. At each internship, Amelia wrote stories about the experiences of minority communities dealing with a wide range of topics including health care and municipal ID programs.

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