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Ese Olumhense
Investigative Reporter
Ese Olumhense is a reporter at The Markup, where she covers the ways that government agencies use technology.
Before that, she was a reporter at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, producing both digital and radio pieces on democracy and voting rights. A native New Yorker, Ese is also an adjunct faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, working with investigative reporting fellows there.
(Photograph by A. Retina Stewart/Studio Ars.)
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