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Raymond Fernandez

Raymond Fernández

Politics Reporter & AJI Fellow

Raymond covers politics and housing at The Washington Sun.

He graduated from Baruch College with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in political science. He was a reporter and multimedia editor for Baruch’s online magazine Dollars & Sense and interned at the New York Amsterdam News. In his final year at Baruch, Raymond received the Arnold Picker Excellence Award in Journalism.

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