MAGGIE FRELENG
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Maggie is a reporter and producer based in New York City focusing on mental illness, criminal justice and social issues. She is the host and producer of "Unjust & Unsolved," a podcast on the Obsessed Network focusing on wrongful convictions and the crimes that are consequently left unsolved.

Maggie is an Adjunct Professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and formerly the Producer-at-Large for NPR’s Latino USA. She was an NPR Next Generation Radio fellow and 2019 Ford Foundation "50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism" fellow. Maggie is also a TV documentary host for VICE and previously Oxygen's "The Disappearance of Maura Murray".

​Her work has been featured on WNYC, NPR's Code Switch, NBC New York, WHYY, WHYY’s The Pulse, Popular Science, Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, and Voices of New York. She was the New York blog correspondent for Stop Street Harassment and was a production assistant at WAM! (Women, Action, and the Media). 
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Maggie graduated with an M.A in Journalism focusing on Health & Sciences and Radio Broadcast from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in December 2015. She earned a B.A in Journalism and English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2011. 
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She returned to New York in 2012 following an offer at Women’s eNews. There, she most notably wrote about low-wage female workers in retail and fast food right when the Fight for $15 was kicking off in Times Square. Her passion to cover social issues started there. ​

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