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Em Luetkemeyer

Former Reporter & AJI Fellow

Em formerly covered Congress, government funding and tribal affairs for NOTUS.

She previously covered the Oklahoma congressional delegation. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and was a writer and editor at the nonprofit newspaper the Columbia Missourian for nearly two years.

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