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2025 Puffin Student Writing Fellows

We’re proud and excited to announce the new group of Fellows. All accomplished writers and editors, each Fellow will receive editorial, research and fact-checking training, mentorship, and support in publishing their writing through the course of 2025. During the summer and fall of 2025, each student will publish a minimum of two reported articles and one breaking news story. Follow this space for more about the program and for links to their articles.

Zoya Alam, UCLA (abortion)
Arman Amin, Vanderbilt (politics & young people)
Rani Chor, Stanford University (climate)
Ella Curlin, University of Indiana, Bloomington (housing)
Amara McEvoy, University of California, Berkeley (racial justice/sports) 
Ava Menkes, University of Wisconsin, Madison (foreign-policy/immigration)
Maven Navarro, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (immigration/war and peace)
Adelaide Parker, Harvard University (education)
Fareed Salmon, Yale University (science, health, technology)
Colin Warren, University of Alaska, Fairbanks (climate, rural)

Deep thanks to the Puffin Foundation for its great generosity in making this program possible.

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