Mitra is a third-year student at Northwestern University studying journalism and international studies with a minor in data science. She most recently interned at the Pittsburgh Business Times as one of ten Pittsburgh Media Partnership interns. Her work has also been published in TABLE Magazine and PublicSource. She is a native of Pittsburgh.
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