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His name is Juan. When he’s not our intern, he does things like ethnomusicology in West Africa. Which makes us suspect that he is cooler than we will ever be.
We asked Juan what he learned on his first day on the job. “I learned,” he said, “that there is a person named Chicken John.”
Heather Smith covers a beat that spans health, food, and the environment, as well as shootings, stabbings, various small fires, and shouting matches at public meetings. She is a 2007 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism and a contributor to the book Infinite City.
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