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Manuela Silva

Politics Reporter & AJI Fellow

Manuela covers politics and co-authors The Washington Sun’s morning newsletter.

She received her bachelors degree in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures and Spanish and Latin American Cultures from Barnard College in May 2025. In college, she was the City News editor at the Columbia Daily Spectator, and interned at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, the Futuro Media Group and the Bronx Times.

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