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Jesse Ellison is an award-winning journalist, a freelance writer, and a Contributing Editor at Down East Magazine, where she has profiled Zam Zam Mohamed, a Somali activist and community leader in Lewiston, Maine; Dr. Nirav Shah, the head of Maine’s CDC during the coronavirus pandemic; and the Deer-Isle based photographer Jeffery Becton; among many others. Also a contributor to publications such as Esquire, Elle, and Boston Magazine, prior to moving to Maine she was a staff writer for Newsweek Magazine and The Daily Beast. She has a master’s degree in Magazine Writing from the Columbia University School of Journalism and a bachelor’s of arts in English, with a creative writing concentration, from Barnard College.
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